Sea Salt: A Perfectly Seasoned Cookbook
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After 20 years of making award-winning Halen Mon sea salt, the Lea-Wilson family have put together a collection of recipes on how to showcase this often misunderstood and misused ingredient.
Learning to season properly is what separates a good cook from a great one. It isn’t a simple case of how much is added but also when these crystals are used: at the beginning of meal prep to help sunny tomatoes sing; coating your meat just before cooking to help the salty char form and the meat stay juicy; or right at the very end, scattered over a chocolate torte to make it all the more chocolate-y.
Brine, cure and pickle your way through this book, learning to use salt in new ways to make everyday food more vibrant and flavourful. From a sophisticated fennel and almond lasagne to toasted milk cookies, delicate salt marsh lamb to juicy black pepper brined corn, this book brings new techniques and a breath of fresh inspiration to your plate.
With every bit as much attention paid to vegetables and sweet dishes, as well as meat and fish, and beautiful photography shot on location on the wild island of Anglesey throughout, this book celebrates the most important ingredient in your kitchen.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (3 May 2022), White Lion Publishing |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 240 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0711265747 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0711265745 |
| Dimensions | 20.19 x 3.18 x 25.15 cm |
by Amazon Alex
Cooking my way through this beautiful book and loving it! The ginger crunch recipe is so good.
by Emma Callaghan
I can’t recommend this beautifully curated book of recipes more highly. A fantastic variety of dishes to cater for many tastes and occasions, accompanied by stunning photography of Anglesey.
by David Herd
Recipes you want to go back to and cook again and again. I’m addicted to the fermented chilli sauce!
by Welsh Food Lover
A very well written and easy to follow cookbook which centres on some wonderful salt. Particularly like the black garlic ketchup and lamb recipes. Check out the potted shrimp, tofu with pickles or spiced squash. So good.
by Anna
I’m from Anglesey and really love that this cookbook is set there, such beautiful imagery. Plenty of variety of recipes – from cookies to fish – and makes use of salt in ways I had never thought of.
by Amazon Alex
When I say I love salt, some of you will probably look at me as if I’ve said something very strange but I ‘ve always had a huge appreciation for the changes salt can make to a dish, making things appear sweeter, balancing bitterness and enhancing that umami flavour. I’m someone who often carries soy sauce or salt in my handbag into work so needless to say I was always going to want to read this book.
Sea Salt is a refreshing and educating look at everything about salt. Some might say salt is salt but the Lea-Wilson Family explain how the many different aspects, such as coarseness or sodium level, make some salts more suitable to certain recipes than others.
The recipes themselves are broken down into 7 categories: Raw seasoning, Hot Seasoning, Brining, Pickling & Fermenting, Curing, Flavours of the Sea and Seasoned Sweets & Drinks. It’s fantastic to see the wide range of uses with everything from fish to poultry to salad and dessert getting a look in.
The recipes are very easy to follow and are accompanied with a little intro, sometimes with a little history of the dish or often just why the dish is so good. The photos are simply stunning and completely mouth watering, I was left drooling a few pages in!
This probably isn’t a cookbook for someone who just wants a collection of random recipes to cook but it’s definitely one anyone with an appreciation of good food and amazing ingredients will devour.
by travelseatsreads
I have completely fallen in love with cooking again having bought this cook book, written by the Lea Wilson family who you can tell have their favourite family moments around the table. The recipes are all accessible, but gently and unpretentiously teach new kitchen skills and confidence.
Each chapter focusses on a different use for salt, and I have already cooked a few recipes from each one. Unlike lots of beautifully photographed books, every recipe works as it should and the tips on seasoning throughout have made such a difference to the flavour of each and every ingredient.
This would make a wonderful gift (in fact I’ve already given it to three different friends), but will also be a favourite source of inspiration in anyone’s kitchen, can’t recommend highly enough!
by Always busy planning the next meal..
This book has delicious recipes, written beautifully by authors who clearly love eating and cooking. Sea Salt is one of the only cookbooks that sits permanently in our kitchen. Its useful and inspiring. I highly recommend it!