Tuesday, September 18, 2012

My New Molcajete and Making Seasoned Salts

I have been on the hunt for a good Molcajete for sometime, the ones i did find were to expensive for my budget. Before getting the small jars for the seasoned salts I looked over near the cutting boards and such to see if they had any Molcajetes. There on the shelf was not one, but two nice lava stone Molcajetes. I hesitated to look at the price, wincing I flipped the card over to see it was only 20 dollars. I was sold, this was the first thing in my cart at World Market.
I walked over a few aisles to the containers and found some really cool small tins. There was also some cool small glass jars with cork tops, some with a mason jar style clamp. They had a few colors of the small tin one, so i got myself a few of each.
A year ago i had made some herb salts. I used fresh herbs, dried them and at mixed them with salt. I have been keeping them in Mason jars. Getting the Molcajete i was able to really grind the herbs with the salts. These salts can be used for a variety of applications, flavor potatoes, veggies, even steaks, chicken, pork, etc. this process was done with ease with the Molcajete.
A few weeks ago out exploring food, i happened to be in a shop that sold canned sliced truffles. The prices was right, so i grabbed it, I was going to keep it to make some truffle salt.
I chopped up the whole can, put on a sheet tray and put into the oven to let them air dry over night. I put some of the dried truffles into my Molcajete and begin to grind into a dust. For more friction and most importantly to infuse the salt with this flavor i added salt and pulverized some more. I removed the mixture from the Molcajete and repeated the process until all of it was done. When all said and done with the grinding and mixing of my salts and herbs i had a full quart Mason jar full of homemade truffle salt, a pint of sage salt, a pint of thyme salt and a pint of sage/thyme salt.



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