Salt and Pepper Mix

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Soho Cooking

By Alastair Little

Published 1999

  • About

This is the classic Cantonese accompaniment to poached meats of any type.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp Maldon salt
  • 1 heaped tsp black peppercorns

Method

Heat the salt and peppercorns dry in a small frying pan until you can smell the pepper quite strongly. Allow to cool, then grind coarsely. (An electric coffee grinder doubling as a spice mill is an invaluable tool in a kitchen where lots of spices are used. Don’t use it for its original purpose at all after grinding any spices unless you want to recreate the flavour of airline coffee!)