You want to give your fries that special something? Then try it with Pommes salt make yourself! With this recipe it is guaranteed to succeed!
You just have to love fries! After all, it is rumored that they are fried rays of the sun :)
However, the crispy potato wedges only become really delicious when you make your own salt fries. Because boring and fat-soaked fries with salt were yesterday.
Now comes a spice blend that transforms sweet potatoes and regular potatoes into a delight.
There is a whole range of spices that really bring out the flavor of the potato. Attention: danger of addiction!
I'm sure you'll love this French fry seasoning as much as I do. Even if you're still looking for a last minute gift.
Table of contents
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 mixes.
I have the suggestion for this fries salt from the book. A little modified I have it, however. Because garlic you can never use enough for my taste :)
By the way, the salt for fries also goes very well with roasted chickpeas and lentils. And even better on spicy fried zucchini pieces, roasted potato or noodle. Just try it on different dishes, it tastes good with almost everything in my opinion.
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What spices are suitable for making chips salt yourself
As always, the recipe is an inspiration that you can modify to your liking.
If you're still short on ideas, here's a list of ingredients that work especially well with potatoes and sweet potatoes. You can use them to refine your French fries seasoning.
Choose what you like if you want to customize the recipe for fries salt:
- Chili powder
- Garlic powder
- Onion powder
- Ginger powder
- Indian curry powder
- Thai curry powder
- Garam Masala
- Mustard seeds
- Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Rosemary
- Oregano
- Thyme
- Dried mushrooms
- Coriander seeds
- and who likes it quite fancy: Cocoa powder*, Cinnamon*, vanilla and clove
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And you can also choose the salt. I prefer to use coarse sea salt. It has the most flavor and can be crushed with a mortar.
Why does it necessarily have to be a mortar? The biggest advantage is that with a mortar you push the essential oils out of the herbs and spices and at the same time break up the salt crystals. The salt is ground particularly finely with a granite mortar.
I recommend this model if you like to make herbal salts or bath salts. It has non-slip rubber feet and stays in place even during really strenuous work.
By the way, I had a very good chef tell me the difference between an amateur chef and a professional chef. A professional seasons the fries while swirling them in a bowl. A beginner puts the seasoning on the fries and then swirls the bowl.
This is the only way to evenly distribute the seasoning salt for French fries. Exciting insight, isn't it?
I was a beginner until now and through this tip I think I have risen to the professional chefs :)
Goes well with the fries: homemade ketchup!
French fries salt make yourself
Ingredients
- 1 TL Mustard seeds
- ½ TL Peppercorns
- 2 TL Paprika powder
- 4 EL coarse sea salt
- ½ TL dried rosemary
- 1 TL Curry powder
Anleitung
- Roast mustard seeds and peppercorns in a pan. Important: without oil!
- Add the paprika powder. Put it in the mortar. Add salt and now the work can begin.
- Once the salt is reasonably fine, add the dried rosemary needles.
- Crush the ingredients with a mortar until you get a fine powder.
- Finally, add the remaining ingredients to the spice mixture. If you were not able to chop the rosemary properly, you can simply sieve it out now.
By the way: The seasoning salt lasts forever, since there are no fresh ingredients in it. The only important thing is that you store it in an airtight jar. Otherwise it will start to form lumps.
However, it is still edible even then. If this happens to you, you should simply pour it onto a plate and place it in the sun. This way the water in the spice mixture will evaporate and you can put it back into the jar.
How to use the French fries seasoning correctly
Hmm... what's the right way to do it? Put the salt on the raw potato pieces? Or is it better to salt before eating?
The answer is: The salt is added to the fries directly before eating. Especially if you use a hot air fryer or a normal deep fryer.
If you prepare potato sticks in the oven, you can put a sprig of rosemary in the oven with them. The potatoes will take on the flavor. However, the salt should be added to the fries before eating.
By the way, the healthiest and lowest-calorie option is oven fries. If your fries get sloppy in the oven, there's an ingenious trick that ensures they get crispy all around. Which, I have packed in an extra post.
How to make crispy fries in the oven!
Why you should make fries salt yourself
In some well-stocked markets you can buy salt mixes of all kinds. But they are already quite expensive. Once you have got the individual ingredients, they last for 2 years for homemade fries seasoning :)
Because you make the mixture yourself, you do not use flavor enhancers. Nobody really needs them. Nevertheless, they are in most spice mixtures from the supermarket.
If you want to make your own fries salt, you have control over what really ends up on the crispy potatoes. And beautifully packaged, DIY fries salt is a wonderful gift for any potato fan.
So if you have a fries fan in your circle of friends, you should start getting the ingredients and mixing up the seasoning salt right away.
Our conclusion
With a pinch of the spice mixture, the fries taste even better. And it's not even hard to make your own salt fries. If you package it nicely, you can do a big potato fan a big favor with it!
Good luck! :)
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