On a recent trip to Gewurzhaus (my favourite spice shop in Melbourne!) I was looking for a spice that could enhance the smokiness to my meat patties for my home made burgers. I was introduced to to this Salish Alder Smoked Sea Salt. It is sourced from the U.S and made using an old American Indian tradition where the salt is smoked over slow burning red alder wood.
It is a very strong however moreish smokey fragrance and can be used to enhance the smokiness to salmon, trout or to chicken or beef recipes. You would use it as you would to season food with salt and large doses are not required.
For me first experience... I was cooking the beef patties on the pan but wanted to achieve the same smoky flavor you would achieve slow cooking over BBQ coals. Whilst mixing the beef mix and before portioning each patty I added the Alder smoked salt to season. After cooking the beef patties on the skillet pan and consuming the burgers the general feed back was that the flavor was delicious (ofcourse!) and there was a hint of smokiness to the burgers... just the feedback I was hoping!
My next blog will tell of another recipe where I have added this smoked salt to a traditional Italian recipe....
Until next time, happy eating!
x Steph
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