In 5 minutes you can make your own lavender salt! Here you can learn how to make your own spiced salt with lavender.
The summer smells so good. This year we want to benefit from the aroma longer. And therefore make it durable for the fall and winter.
Lavender is currently in high demand. You can make syrup, jam, jelly, scrubs, creams and much more. What must not be missing here is lavender salt make yourself.
The homemade lavender salt tastes especially good when the purple flowers come from your own garden. But even bought and already dried, lavender still smells unbeatable.
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 blends. I got the inspiration for this lavender salt from the book and it's also very tasty: apple salt.
Let's hold on to the scent. The advantage of lavender salt is that it has a particularly long shelf life. You don't have to store it specially and you only need two ingredients.
So you can bring Mediterranean atmosphere into the kitchen even in winter and autumn.
Especially Mediterranean dishes lavender gives a very special touch.
If you choose to make lavender salt yourself, you will raise your recipes to a very special level. Salt and lavender are pure pleasure!
You are a fan of spiced salt? Then look also at our DIY herbal salt, or DIY wild garlic salt and homemade chili salt over!
Does it necessarily have to be a mortar for making spiced salt? I say yes. Because the biggest advantage is that you use a mortar to pound the essential oils out of the herbs and flowers while breaking 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.
Dried or fresh flowers to make lavender salt itself?
If you want to do the bees a favor, wait until the flowers have dried on their own. Then they still have enough aroma for the herbal salt.
In any case, the flowers must be dried before you can make your own lavender salt. This way, the spiced salt has a longer shelf life.
Those who process lavender from the garden, have two options:
- Either you dry the flowers outdoors - so just tie them together by the stems and hang in the sun. For this you need a little more time and patience.
- Or you can dry the flowers at a very low temperature in the oven.
If you do not have lavender yourself, you can buy it already dried in the pharmacy, health food store or Amazon. Always look for organic quality here.
If their scent is not intense enough, you can add 1-2 drops of essential Lavender oil* add to the mixture. But be careful: the flowers only become fragrant when they are crushed in a mortar.
The first impression is often deceptive! Therefore, you should wait with the essential oil until you have the spiced salt completely ready - if that certain something is missing, the fragrance oil is added.
What salt is the best for making lavender salt yourself
In any case, you should take a high quality salt. Sea salt and rock salt are a very good choice.
In our herbal salt we used a coarse sea salt.
Pro Tip: Especially aromatic is when you use the Lavender flowers* crushed in a mortar with a small amount of salt. This allows the flavors to combine even better. And then pour in the remaining salt.
What you can use the lavender salt for
Sea salt and lavender salt go well with a whole range of dishes. To meat such as chicken, turkey, lamb, beef, pork and secret tip: game! But also with mussels, fish, dips, salads, vegetables, rice dishes, pasta, potatoes.
So easy you can make chili salt yourself!
Lavender salt goes wonderfully with cheese of all kinds - especially spicy cheeses. Or you can simply use it for a delicious salad. In short, you can season just about anything with it. Give it a try!
PS: Lavender salt makes a great take-home gift for celebrations of all kinds.
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Make mild lavender salt yourself
Ingredients
- 12 EL coarse sea salt
- 2 EL dried lavender flowers
Equipment
- Mortar
- Glasses for filling
Anleitung
- Mix the lavender flowers with the salt and pour the mix into a jar
- Put the jar aside in a dark and cool place for a week.
- Now the salt has time to absorb the flavors.
- Pound salt and lavender flowers in a mortar so that the essential oils and salt combine.
- If you wish, you can remove the flowers after the time or add new dried ones. They can remain in the lavender salt as decoration.
If you like it even more aromatic, you can crush the flowers with a mortar when making lavender salt yourself. You can do this before or after the week of infusion.
How to properly dose lavender salt
Do not overdo it with the herbal salt! You should use lavender salt very cautiously. Sea salt preserves the aroma of herbs and spices - including lavender. The aroma is strengthened rather than weakened. So it's better to use only a small amount at first.
For large dishes, half a teaspoon is usually enough. For one serving, a knife tip is enough.
However, how much you should use of the salt with lavender, of course, depends on the intensity of your salt.
If you want to make lavender salt yourself as a beginner, the mild variant is perfectly sufficient.
If you get used to the taste, you can use more flowers to make lavender salt.
Our conclusion
Making your own lavender salt is very simple. You only need two ingredients. If you want to save time, buy dried flowers. The spiced salt goes very well with all kinds of dishes.
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