Salty

Most vegetables, fruits, and meats contain some amount of salt naturally, but we still season our food with salt to round off the taste of a dish. In Indian cooking, besides regular table salt and sea salt, we also use black salt (kala namak) and Himalayan pink salt. A lot of ingredients that come from the ocean—seaweed, shellfish, and fish—already contain a significant amount of salt, so I taste carefully when possible before adding more. Salt is one of the easiest ingredients to experiment with.