This mix brings together delicious sweet and savoury flavours. Crazy salt is slightly spicy, releasing mild herby and peppery aromas making it perfect for all your daily dishes.
The delicate full flavours of this Crazy salt are perfect for seasoning your dishes or simply as a table salt to amaze your guests.
Use it in dry marinades, stocks, on grilled meat or in salads.
Crazy salt is a speciality from Guerande and Île de Ré off the West coast of France. It is also called “Devil’s salt” due to its bright red colour and its hot spiciness. Our recipe uses coarse sea salt from Île de Ré, paprika, rosemary, pink berries and Cayenne pepper. This spicy salt can be used in all your daily dishes. Use it as your secret ingredient to keep your guests guessing!
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The coarse sea salt of Île de Ré is harvested by hand and its color is given by clay salt ponds.
Peppers native to Slovakia’s Žitava River region give the mixture a mild, slightly sweet flavor and bright red color.
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) grows wild on bushes throughout the Mediterranean region. In Latin it is called Rosmarinus, which means dew of the sea.
We don’t really know for sure where Crazy salt all started. We do know though that it was probably the salt workers in Île de Ré who created it and then it spread to Guerande. The salt workers, or salt farmers, harvest the salt from salty marshes. It is thought that the salt workers from Île de Ré started adding herbs and spices to their salt to diversify their wares and attract new customers.
Cayenne pepper is also called Pili-pili and is one of the hottest in the world, harvested in Uganda.
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