Rosemary Sea Salt Recipe
I checked for recipes for Rosemary Sea Salt all over since I wanted to make some of my own. I really couldn’t find much, I did find one by Martha Stewart, and another one that had ground up the rosemary in the sea salt, but that wasn’t what I was looking for. So, I did like I usually do, I just read the stuff and do it on my own. I hope you’ll do the same!
Rosemary Sea Salt Recipe:
*48 oz. of Sea Salt
*6 decent branches of fresh Rosemary (depending on your love or Rosemary)
That’s it for ingredients. Yeah, you did read that right…nada mas, nothing more.
Squeeze the Rosemary and pull your fingers down the branch, in order to pull off all the rosemary leaves. Repeat on all but 2 branches (those are for the rosemary garnish at the end). Dump all the sea salt into a pan or pot and then add the rosemary. Turn heat on to medium heat and keep watch, stirring for 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat, dump contents into a large bowl. Let sit to cool, without a cover for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, then pour into an air tight container (I used a large Ball Jar) and let sit with the lid sealed for 24 hours. Then the Rosemary Sea Salt is ready for its pretty little containers. Use a colander with a large bowl underneath, dump the contents into the colander and shake so as to sift the salt out the bottom and keep the rosemary to discard (it is completely used up and dried at this point, however you can keep it in if you would like). Put sifted Rosemary Sea Salt into containers and slide sprigs of fresh rosemary down the sides, 2 or 4 would be great. Screw on an air tight lid and you are done.
Rosemary Sea Salt is great anywhere you’d use regular salt, meats, soups, stews, whatever. My personal favourite is to sprinkle it on top of a sunny side up egg. Oh, my tummy grumbles.
Give yourself a good pat on the back, your peeps will love getting these gifts from you for Christmas! They look completely wintery anyway, it looks like snow and pine. Doesn’t it? A great gift for anyone who likes to cook or likes to eat….I don’t think that leaves anyone out, at least not in my family.
Enjoy a Homemade Christmas with your family too! Get started now.
This is the third gift idea that I have shared for my Christmas a la Homemade (a handmade Christmas). I will be posting these up until Christmas to give you ideas for gifts you can make for your friends and family.
Previous Ideas from my Christmas a la Homemade (A Handmade Christmas):
Rosemary Sea Salt Recipe
Bath Salts Soak Recipe
Knit Granny Washcloth (or Dishcloth) Pattern
Make a Reading Pillow for the Bookaholic(s) in Your Life
Themocracy
I love rosemary! I don’t have anyone that I could make this for unfortunately; my MIL is not that into cooking and even though my mother is, she’s not so into rosemary. Maybe I’ll make rosemary sea salt for myself. =)
I made some for me too!! I think that is a great idea
I love this idea and they look so pretty!
Thanks for the recipe….what a great idea…I’m going to do it….thanks!!
Have you ever made Vanilla sugar? Basically same idea, except you use Vanilla bean (which they now sell at Costco, 10 beans for $12 CHEAP!). You actually can still split the pod and use the seeds to flavor another recipe (we love creme brule or panna cotta) or in plain yogurt and then you put the pod in a sealed jar with the sugar. It is amazing how much flavor it imparts to regular sugar. This looks great too!
See dude, I told you your ARE crafty! I totally have to make that one too for people. Thanks for the tips, I can’t wait to eat it by the spoonful…I love sugar.
These are just beautiful.
What a great idea! I love your photos in this post…gorgeous!!
I’m going to do this, it’s beautiful in the canning jars and would make a lovely gift.
Yum! What a lovely idea for gifts. Thanks for this recipe, Bethany.
beautiful presentation!!! i love this idea…but i don’t really like rosemary.
i might try vanilla sugar like becky suggested–that i could get onboard with!
I just made a ton of that vanilla sugar, oh it really is divine! I made it a little different than Becky said, by adding in the seeds too. I’ll post it really soon.
I *love* the photos (once again
and the containers just look so pretty with the salt and rosemary in it. Great idea! The containers itself are nice as well.
Looks great – what a great gift for the holidays