Name: Sale aromatico (Aromatic salt)
Yield: Makes 390 g (13½ oz)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 100 g (3½ oz) sage sprigs; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) salt; 120 g (4½ oz) rosemary sprigs; 4 small dried red chillies; 4 bay leaves; 15 g (½ oz) black peppercorns; 6 garlic cloves, peeled; zest of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Makes
390 g

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Twelve

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2003

About

It is worth making a fairly large amount of this seasoning. It keeps well, stored in an airtight container in the fridge, and is delicious as well as extremely convenient.

Ingredients

120 g (4½ oz) rosemary sprigs
100 g (3½

Method

Rinse the rosemary and sage and put them onto paper towels to dry overnight. Strip the leaves off the rosemary stalks and remove any tough stalks from the sage sprigs. Cut a slit down the chillies (wearing gloves), and remove some of the seeds.

Put the bay leaves, rosemary, sage, lemon zest, chillies and garlic into a food processor and pulse-chop until they are in tiny pieces. Transfer