Rosemary salt recipe

Rosemary salt is an easy way to turn your freshly harvested rosemary into a small jar full of flavor and aroma that highlights any dish.

Whether you just started to use herbs in the kitchen or you are an advanced gourmet that likes to turn ordinary dishes into culinary specialties, Rosemary salt is for you. 

Making homemade flavored salt is an easy and fast preservation method that retains the freshness, color, and aroma of the herb for the whole winter. 

But if you think that you can just throw herbs into a blender and mix it with salt, I am happy to mislead you. 

It is a great honor for me to prepare rosemary salt that scents the whole kitchen and brings you joy while you make it.

Why this herbs salt makes a great edible gift?

• This rosemary salt is delicious and add flavors to any dish or bread like this Rosemary Foccacia Bread.
• A jar of homemade rosemary salt makes a great edible gift that suits any food lover, especially those who appreciate fresh herbs and homemade kitchen creations
• This homemade herb salt is a great way to preserve your home grown herbs. Instead of infusing them in oil, water or alcohol, just simply mix them with salt.
• It has a long shelf life and if stored property you can keep it for a year

Ingredients you need to make homemade rosemary salt

Hardy Rosemary

Rosemary is an easy-to-grow aromatic culinary herb with needle-like evergreen leaves and a distinctive woody scent that is instantly recognizable.

There is no other herbal flavor as intense as rosemary.  Its scent has notes of pine, mint, and sage, with an evergreen and citrus touch.  

Fragrant and intense in its taste, rosemary is also a valuable source of vitamins, minerals, and volatile oils that contribute to its medicinal properties. 

Rosemary has been used in ancient times to improve memory, lower anxiety, and improve sleep. 

It is valued herb for its ability to grow hair faster and stronger. I use this rosemary water every time I need to rejuvenate my hair.

Rosemary may also help with weight loss and digestion.

How Much Rosemary Should You Use in Rosemary Salt?

When deciding how much rosemary to use, aim for a 1:1 ratio by volume of herbs to salt. This ensures every sprig of rosemary infuses the mixture evenly.

Gather fresh rosemary leaves, remove them from stems, and dry gently with a paper towel. Using a salad spinner helps if the leaves are damp. The key is to start with completely dry herbs before mixing to avoid moisture that can shorten the shelf life.

Choosing the Best Salt: Sea Salt, Kosher Salt, or Himalayan

Pay attention to salt selection. Many salts contain added iodine or fluorine that make noticeable changes in the smell of salt, which matters when you make something as delicate as rosemary salt. 

For the perfect texture, go with coarse salt or even coarse sea salt. It resists moisture better and allows rosemary oils to infuse gradually. My favorites are Himalayan, Maldon, or kosher salt for their clean, mineral notes

This is for a gourmet dish – infuse vanilla in salt.

How to make Rosemary salt

First step – prepare rosemary

Gather your fresh rosemary, remove leaves from stems. It is much faster with this herb stripping tool.

Wash it and dehydrate it ideally in a salad spinner

Second step – measuring

Measure the amount of rosemary. I like to keep the ratio of herb and salt 1:1 if measured by volume in the measuring cup

Third step – cutting

There few ways you can do it. If you want to make it quick and fast use a hand mixer or herb grinder. 

However, don’t let the kitchen technology take away all the joy from making it. If you want to enjoy the fresh and intense herbal scent chop with a knife. It won’t take more than 5 minutes, you will immerse your hands in the herbed salts many times and maybe you will get rid of everyday stress.

The salt is chopped together with the herbs and chopped with a large knife on a large cutting board. If you choose a small knife or a small cutting board, you will curse me a thousand times.

It may help to hold the knife by the tip with your other hand when chopping.

If you can’t help it and still decide to entrust everything to the food processor, put half of the salt and rosemary in a mixer or grinder. Blend till it is a nice smooth refined green salt.

Mix the other half when you have finished to give the homemade flavored salt a little chunkier texture.

Fourth step – drying flavored salt

This part is most often forgotten and it is a pity. The salt helps to dry, draws water from the rosemary thus speeding things up, so the herb retains its color and scent.

Spread the homemade rosemary salt on a baking sheet and let it dry for 1-2 days at room temperature, that’s all. The drying time depends on how juicy the rosemary was, so occasionally dig through the salt with your hands to see how it looks.

By drying, you can basically preserve the herb salt forever. If you store the DIY rosemary salt in a glass without drying it, its shelf life is relatively limited.

And it has one more drying advantage: the herbs shrink to a fraction of their original volume and take almost no storage space.

Rosemary salt uses

• sprinkle the rosemary herbal salt on Rosemary Lemon Boneless Chicken Thighs or vegetables before roasting and baking. It is also great to serve with baked potatoes.
• Use it for making Rosemary Spiced Nuts
• It makes an excellent, easy, and inexpensive homemade gift for a cook or anybody who appreciates a creative approach to cooking. 
• Mix it with herbal butter
• It taste great on pizza, pasta or marinated brussels sprouts.
• Rosemary taste great with bread – add it to rosemary bread recipe or these Rosemary Sea Salt Homemade Crackers.
• I love it sprinkled over these beet chips
• Egg omelette or scrambled eggs.
• It taste geat on salad too.
• Add couple of spoons into your bath or homemade pedicure 

How to store rosemary salt

When using fresh herbs, use the mixture within a couple of weeks and keep it refrigerated in an airtight container.

If you dried the mixture, rosemary salt can last well up to a year. Well, in fact indefinitely but the flavor will eventually decrease.

Flavored Variations: Garlic, Lemon Zest, or Chili

This flavored rosemary salt is endlessly adaptable.

Garlic rosemary salt: My favorite rosemary salt often contains garlic. In this quantity, I would add 3-4 garlic cloves. You can use it in recipes like this Whole Wheat Biscuits or Rosemary Garlic Butter Sirloin Tip.

Lemon rosemary sea salt: Add thin strips of lemon zest for a refreshing citrus touch.

However, you can also add chili peppers or thin peeled citrus peel to make lemon rosemary sea salt.

Experimenting lets youmake your own rosemary salt batches with simple ingredients you already have.