Finishing salts are pretty popular right now, ranging from single-origin salts to smoked salts and flavored salts. Right now I have at least a half dozen varieties of salt stashed around the kitchen, and I do use them for different purposes to create layers of flavor. This is a simple, flavored salt that adds a nutty-sweet flavor to salads, eggs, popcorn, or any other savory dish. It is also delicious sprinkled on dark chocolate bark.
I made a batch of this a few weeks ago and we ate a great deal of it as a popcorn topping (popcorn is sometimes a complete meal in our house), but I have also been using it on roasted vegetables and salads. We had some dead-ripe local tomatoes that were perfect with just a sprinkle of this salt.
I plan to make some of this to put in glass jars for gifts. If you buy pre-shelled pistachios the color will be more brown than green, so if you have the patience to shell your own, it will make a prettier gift product. Either way, it makes a delicious topping, and the flavor from the nuts means you can use less salt.
- 1 cup shelled, dry-roasted and salted pistachios
- ¼ cup sea salt (fine or coarse)
- In a food processor, pulse the pistachios and salt until the nuts are finely ground. You will have to stop to scrape down the sides once or twice to get a more even texture. Place the salt in an air-tight container for storage. Store at room temperature.
Happy shelling!
-Angela
I’ve had about a cup of pistachios in the fridge just waiting for me to try this! Little did I know this is what those nuts wanted me to do with them!
Seriously, I love this stuff and have been putting it on everything! Just had some pistachio-salt sprinkled eggs.
This is an awesome idea! And a great idea for a gift. I will have to make some. I think it would be good on desserts too.
I am thinking it would be good on ice cream…
What a clever idea and a pretty photo. If I may, I’d like to invite you to submit your photos to the new YumGoggle, a photo sharing site with the philosophy that if you worked hard to cook it and photograph it, we should show it off! Hope to see you there! http://www.yumgoggle.com/gallery/
Thank you, I will check it out!
Those tomatoes with that salt on them… I have a sudden urge to go slice up a big beefsteak tomato and find some pistachios and make this salt. It would be a full meal for me! Mmmmm
That was lunch! It really is great on tomatoes.
What a great idea
Thank you
Yummo! I am going to have to make some of this, unless of course a little elf happens to bring me some for Christmas!
That seems possible…
Yay!