Chilli Salt

[auds]

half a cinnamon stick
15g good quality sea salt
1 tsp sechuan peppercorns
1 tsp whole coriander seeds
1 star anise
1 tsp chilli flakes
1 green cardamom pod

Put the lot in the TM

toast on veroma temp for 7 minutes speed soft. I did note that in the EDC spices are toasted for about 3 mins I think - this is no way near long enough for the spices to become properly hot and aromatic.


Grind at speed 10 for 10 seconds

use spatula to scrape mix off the bottom and sides and scrape lid as well back into jug

Grind at speed 10 for 10 seconds.

Repeat until you have a fine spice mix.

I mainly use this mix for 2 different dishes.

BBQ prawns

peel and devein prawns leaving tails on and thread onto skewers lengthways with tail at the bottom .  sprinkle a little of the chilli salt on the prawns and BBQ on a grill until prawns are cooked.  Serve with lime aioli.  These are always the biggest hit at any of our bbq's.

Salt and pepper squid - this is a very loose quantity mix as I usually just taste until the mix feels right.

Put a cup of rice flour into a bag and put a soup spoon of the chilli salt in and shake around till mixed well.  Put batches of prepared squid in and shake to coat and deep fry squid.

This is lovely with an asian greens salad with fresh mint, coriander and thai basil.

dressing is easy and can just be blitzed in TM

50 g grated palm suger blitzed in TM for 5 seconds speed 9

Add each 50ml fresh lemon juice and 50ml of fresh lime juice and turbo once or twice until sugar is dissolved.

I can post proper quanitites if needed but I dont think its necessary

soooooooo yummy

[fundj&e]

interesting auds, i will leave out the coriander  i have never heard of sechuan peppercorns will google it now

thanks for posting

ciao
uni

[auds]

I have probably spelt sechuan wrong LOL - they are a bit like black peppercorns but they are less well formed and a redish colour

[fundj&e]

Szechuan Peppercorn or Sichuan pepper from wikipedia not that wrong auds

its not really a pepper

[Halex]

Uni, i use scezuan peppers a lot on steaks, chicken, love it

Auds, i am allergic  to seafood, but tbis spice sounds so good, what else does it go with.

H

[judydawn]

Another good one for Christmas hampers.

[JulieO]

Love the sound of this and your little recipes too.  Thanks 

[auds]

Hally I have only used it on seafood but you could probably put it on chicken or pork

[judydawn]

Made a triple batch of this recipe to go in their Christmas hamper, it made enough for a couple of people.  Wasn't about to taste it but it did smell nice though. Will give them the recipes for the prawns and squid too.

[auds]

looks good JD - really hope your friends/family love it like we do.  Stick your finger in it and taste it - its not that hot

[judydawn]

Tastes nice auds, it is fairly hot for me (says she running for a glass of water ) but using it as per your recipes I can see it will be really nice