Making your own chili salt is so easy. And so incredibly delicious. The hot spiced salt brings a lot of pep into your kitchen.
Anyone who has overdone the cultivation of chilies is faced with the question: what to do with all the chili peppers?
If you've already made enough chili oil, here's a tasty alternative for those who like it spicy.
Make your own chili salt is the solution!
The self mixed spicy seasoning salt is a great gift - whether for Christmas, birthdays or simply as a small souvenir for the next barbecue.
The chili salt is also visually an eye-catcher. The pink salt with small chili pieces looks pretty but has it neat in itself.
Table of contents
Too many chilies? Just make chili oil!
If you like to make salts of all kinds, I can give you this book for DIY herb and spice salt* love. It contains a total of 130 different recipes for spice and salt blends. I got the inspiration for this chili salt from the book and it's also very tasty: apple salt.
Which pods you should use for making your own chili salt
You can process any type of chili to salt. However, pay attention to the quantity! Better a little too much salt, than far too many chilies.
It is not possible to give an exact quantity. Because each chili variety has different degrees of heat.
Depending on the spiciness, the homemade spiced salt goes well with fish, meat, pasta, potatoes, spread, salad, soup. Actually, to everything that can tolerate a little spiciness in your opinion.
The recipe for the Making chili salt is actually quite simple. You only need two ingredients: salt and chilies.
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Those who have no experience with chilies or are sensitive to spiciness, take jalapeños or cayenne. They are very aromatic and are also well tolerated by beginners :)
Basically, most of the heat is in the seeds. If your stomach is sensitive to spiciness, then remove the seeds. But be careful: Always wear gloves, otherwise your fingers will burn for many hours!
What salt is best for the chillies
Fine sea salt ends up in this recipe. You can also process rock salt.
If you decide to use coarse salt, you should grind it in a mortar. In principle, you can use any salt. What tastes best to you, ends up in the Chili salt recipe.
The spiced salt does very well later in a salt mill. Then you hardly have to pound it with the mortar. But it's still worth a bit - because then the chili and salt combine much better with each other.
I process the salt with the mortar until it is very fine. It then goes into a small jar and is always handy. I love herb and spice salts. So many salt mills I could not store anywhere :)
These herbs are especially delicious for herbal salt!
Why the salt tastes more intense with a mortar? The biggest advantage is that with a mortar you push the essential oils out of the pods and at the same time break up the salt crystals. The salt is ground extra fine with a granite mortar.
I recommend this model if you like to make herbal salts or bath salts. It has non-slip rubber pads and stays in place even during really strenuous work.
Recipe and instructions: Make hot chili salt yourself
There are three possibilities: Either you reach for fresh chilies, dried pods or ready-made chili powder.
Attention: Chilis best always only with Gloves touch! This also applies to the Make chili salt yourself with dry pods!
Prepare chili salt with fresh chilies
Fresh chili peppers are always hotter than dried ones. Use intensely fragrant chilies. This is the aroma that is later found in the salt.
Tip: A home-grown and freshly harvested chili tastes better than pods from the supermarket. They often lose much of their heat content during storage.
Preparation:
- Wash the chilies. Remove the seeds if necessary - depending on the degree of heat. The seeds contain the most heat!
- Chop the chilies with a sharp knife as small as possible
- Add salt. For every 100 grams of salt, add one or two pods, depending on the size.
- The salt now becomes sticky. This is because it draws the moisture out of the chilies.
- Put it on a baking tray. Leave in the oven at 100° until it has the degree of dryness you want.
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Make chili salt with dried chilies
If you decide to use dried chilies, make sure they are not too old. Because dried chilies can lose their spiciness after time.
In our recipe are chili peppers that were harvested in the fall. Then were air-dried and 2 months later ended up in the salt.
When chopping the pods, the grain size depends on the application and the salt. In our case, the chilies are very finely chopped, but still recognizable as chilies.
Preparation:
- Remove the stem of the chilies. Do not throw away the seeds!
- Put it in a food processor. Add salt and grind briefly.
- Carefully pour into a glass jar with a screw cap using a spoon. Ready.
Alternatively, you can work with a mortar. For this, the chilies must first be crushed with a sharp knife.
Or an electric coffee grinder. Here you grind the chilies 2 to 3x for 1 to 2 seconds.
Make chili salt with chili powder
Probably the easiest and fastest option is to resort to chili powder.
Preparation:
- Place coarse salt and fine chili powder in a food processor.
- Mix well with short pulses.
- Ready. Put it in the spice grinder or in the jar.
But be careful: Wait until the chili dust has settled before opening the lid! And even then, to be on the safe side, do not inhale directly. This can lead to a bad cough and burning eyes.
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How to refine your spicy seasoning salt
If chili salt is too boring for you, you can round it off with other spices and make it even tastier. Reach for: herbs or dried tomatoes. Herbs that are especially tasty: Rosemary and oregano.
If you like it a little fancy, you can combine the homemade chili salt with cocoa.
But pepper, garlic and curry also add even more flavor to your seasoning salt.
If you have now acquired a taste for it, you should definitely visit our DIY herbal salt drop by :)
How long can be kept homemade chili salt
Everlasting. Salt preserves the dried chili peppers. Just put a lid on it so the salt doesn't get soggy. Done.
And don't put it directly in the sun.
Our conclusion
Make chili salt yourself is quite simple. Even much easier than herbal salt. With only two ingredients and 10 minutes of time you can make a great Chili salt stock put on and season soups, salads and main dishes.
Good luck!
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