PROPÓSITO
¿QUÉ ES?
Himalayan pink salt is a rock salt, one of the best nutritional salt seasonings out there, and it should be your go-to salt for anything for which you use salt, because it is rich in trace minerals:
- Copper
- Iron
- Calcium
- Magnesium
- Potassium (It’s salt)
NOT to be confused with pink curing salt, which can be toxic in larger doses, Himalayan pink salt is a good source of these minerals that often we do not get enough of in our diet. This is the fine-grained salt.
EXPERIENCIA
Fundamentally all salt should taste the same, but Himalayan salt isn’t quite as sharp, to my tasting of it, as traditional white table salt.
USOS TRADICIONALES
- Any dish seasoned with salt (not ideal for brining. Use kosher salt.)
IMPROVISATIONAL 'RIFFS'
- A few sprinkles on salted caramels provide a little color pop;
- Mix a little coarse salt with coarse Swedish pearl sugar and cardamom seeds for a cardamom bread topping for a pink white black look;
- The regular salt makes a nice lightly pink rim for a margarita.
LA HISTORIA
The legit stuff is mined at the Khewra Salt Mine , located in a system of foothills called the Salt Range. My preferred vendor, San Francisco Salt Company, imports a high quality, food-grade Himalayan salt that SCS Global inspects to verify that it is actual Himalayan salt. They do it though, at a far better price than my other go-to spice merchants.
Yes, there are, sadly, salt scams. Lower-grade salts from Iran, or Poland, mixed with sea salt, or the Punjabi salts mixed with sea salt.
Other spices come from our primary purveyor, so I don’t tend to rank them all, but Sherpa Pink is top shelf stuff at a great price, so I award it the Jazz Chef Five Diamond Choicestuff seal for being of such high quality in a limited marketplace of good product.
ALIAS
- Himalaya-Salzkristallen
- Himalajska sol
- Sel Himalayen
- இந்துப்பு
- Sal del Himalaya
- Sal do Himalaya
- రతి ఉప్పు
- ഇൻഡുപ്പ്,ഇന്ദുപ്പ്
- Гималайская соль
- ملح الهيمالايا
- የሂማሊያን ጨው
- Հիմալայան աղ
- হিমালয়ৰ নিমখ
- संधा नमक
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