Cajun Chicken Filo Wraps With Avocado Salsa!

Ingredients

 

3 cups shredded barbecued chicken
1⁄2 cup light sour cream
2 teaspoons Dijon style mustard
2 teaspoons olive oil
1 red onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 1⁄2 tablespoons Saltan Salts PIZZA Flavour, plus extra for sprinkling
8 sheets  Fillo Pastry
melted butter

Salsa

1 small avocado, diced
1 tomato, diced
1⁄4 cup diced red capsicum
2 tablespoons coarsely chopped coriander leaves
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons olive oil
salt, to taste

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a large oven tray with baking paper.

2. Place chicken, sour cream and mustard in a large bowl. Set aside.

3. Heat oil in a non-stick frypan over a medium heat; add onion and cook, stirring occasionally until softened. Add garlic and seasoning and cook 1 minute longer. Add to chicken mixture and stir to combine.

4. Place Fillo flat on a work surface. Keep covered with a lightly dampened tea towel to prevent Fillo from drying out. Brush 1 sheet of pastry with butter. Top with another sheet of pastry; brush edges with butter, then spoon 1/4 chicken mixture along one short side of the pastry about 5cm from the edge and leaving a 5cm border on either side. Fold long edge over filling, then fold in side edges. Roll pastry to enclose filling. Place, seam side down, on prepared tray. Repeat with remaining pastry and chicken mixture. Brush wraps with butter, then sprinkle lightly with Pizza seasoning. Bake 25 minutes or until pastry is golden and crisp.

5. Meanwhile combine all salsa ingredients. Serve wraps with salsa.

 

 

Saltan Salts Pizza Bread

I love this as a little side dish whenever I have people over, it has flavours many people have never com across before and is always a conversation starter...  and very very few leftovers...

 

 

2 tbs olive oil

3 garlic cloves, crushed

2 fresh Pizza Bases or Focaccia

1 tablespoon of Saltan Salts Pizza Flavour

 

Sea salt, to taste

      

1. Step 1
   Preheat oven to 220°C. Combine the oil and garlic in a small bowl until well combined.
2. Step 2
   place the pizza bases on 2 baking trays. Spread garlic mixture over the pizza bases. Sprinkle Pizza Flavour
3. Step 3
   Bake for 8 minutes or until crisp and golden. Cut the pizza into slices and sprinkle with sea salt.

 

 

 

Healthy Avocado Fries! Impress your guests

Got a heap of Luscious Avocados on your bench top... slow wasting away?? No need to stress, turn your avocados into a super food healthy snack, perfect for entertaining!

 

 

Ingredients (makes around 20 avocado fries)

• 3 ripe avocados
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour
• Salt and black pepper
• 1 1/2 cups of panko breadcrumbs
• 1 tablespoon of melted butter
• 2 teaspoons of Saltan Salts Buttery Garlic Flavour 
• 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon of freshly ground black pepper
• Cooking spray of your choice

 

Preparation

1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees
2. Line a baking sheet with foil, place a wire rack on the sheet (I have made these without the wire rack and they still turned out fine)
3. Slice your avocados lengthwise. Using three avocados you will yield around 20 avocado fries.
4. Prepare for breading: set up three bowls in a line. In the first bowl place the 1/2 cup of flower and add salt and a few grinds of black pepper. In the middle bowl add the eggs, lightly beaten. In the third bowl combine the breadcrumbs and butter and mix, then add the Butter Garlic Flavour, onion powder, paprika, salt and pepper. Combine well.
5. Coat each slide of avocado through the first bowl, then the egg, and then coat thoroughly with the breadcrumbs.
6. Place the slices, once breaded, on the wire rack.
7. Once all slices are on the rack, spray lightly with cooking spray.
8. Bake for 20-25 minutes, until the breadcrumbs are lightly browned.

Try dipping it in your favourite sauce, I personally love ranch!!!

 

 

Enhance the Flavour - Eat the Foods that People Journeyed For

Remember high school history class? Remember the stories about merchants traveling to the Middle East for months to years just to get their hands on some spices and salts? It was a round trip too. They would go there and come back to their homes to sell what they acquired.

            Doesn’t it sound delicious? The salts and spices that came from a yearlong expedition to an exotic country? Well there is GREAT news for you. You do not need to travel by camel to get your delicious salts. Make your food taste just as authentic and just as delicious as any dish you would ever find in the 1200s. Our salts are made to enhance your dish, or dominate it if you wish! (try the bacon flavour and you will surely want it to dominate everything!)

            If you’re having trouble thinking of what to make your dinner guests, why not try seasoning your steaks with the Tomato andOnion Rock Salt? On a hot summer cookout why not season your chicken with our Coconut and Lime seasoning? It will probably go great with all the Coronas!

            Cooking delicious foods requires many detailed steps. Most people tend to overlook the seasoning phase, but there is a lot involved in this step. The seasoning can make the difference from an okay steak to an amazing steak, it’s true! Now of course, seasoning alone won’t make a bad chef into a great one, but careful seasoning combined with good preparation will make one delicious meal.

            So what are you waiting for? You don’t need to travel to the other side of the ocean anymore to get these delicious seasonings. See for yourself why thousands of people would literally travel over a year to get their hands on these delicious seasonings!

 

 

Watermelon Martini

Summer or no-summer, this drink is sure to quench your thirst…

 

Ingredients:

1 cup watermelon juice

4 oz. vodka

¼ cup lime juice

¼ cup of simple syrup (sugar)

3 ground tablespoons Saltan Salts Hibiscus RockSalt

Ice

Sliced watermelon for garnishing

 

Wet the rims of 2 chilled martini glass with a piece of watermelon.  Dip the rims into the Saltan Salts Hibiscus Rock Salt.  Set aside.

 

Mix watermelon juice, lime juice, vodka, and syrup into a cocktail shaker and top with ice.  Shake well.  Pour contents through a strainer into the Saltan Salts-rimmed martini glasses.  Garnish with watermelon wedges.

Serves 2.

 

 

 

Crispy-licious Pork Crackling

A special Twist on A mouth-watering, all-time favourite dish that’s so easy to prepare and sure to fill everyone's bellies this Winter!

 

Ingredients:

24cm size pork rind

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 tablespoons ground Saltan Salts Special Pork Rock Salt

 

Directions:

Preheat oven to 220C

Place pork rind onto a rack over a shallow baking dish or pan.  Brush thoroughly with olive oil.  Then generously sprinkle with Saltan Salts Special Pork Rock Salt.

Roast for 40 to 50 minutes or until the pork rind is gold and crisp.

Let cool and cut to bite size pieces.

 

Tips:

Serve as is or offer a choice of seasonings to go with it like the Salt and Vinegar Flavour Salt for the adults and Pizza Flavour Salt for the kids.

Dry the skin thoroughly, this helps the crispiness, and rub ground  salt into it ( Make sure the salt gets right through, into the cracks.

 

Crispy Salt and Vinegar Kale Chips - Healthy Snacks, guilt free!

So Kale chips,  not exactly a new thing right? Wait till you try this amazing twist on what is in my opinion, normally a pretty boring excuse for a chip.

 

 

Be as  Heavy-handed with the flavour as you like, the Saltan Salts, Salt and Vinegar Flavour really does mimic the  flavour of salt and vinegar chips (minus the fryer

Here is the super health recipe-  crispy salt and vinegar kale chips. 

 

 

Salt and Vinegar Kale Chips

   

Ingredients

1 bunch kale, rinsed
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1-1/2 teaspoons of Saltan Salts, Salt and Vinegar Flavour ( or use to suit taste)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Remove the kale stems, cut (or tear) the leaves into bite-size pieces, and thoroughly rinse thoroughly. Dry the pieces of kale- it is important that they are dry.
2. Whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, and salt in the bottom of a large mixing bowl; add the kale leaves and toss to coat thoroughly.
3. Line two half-sheet pans with parchment paper and spread the pieces into a single even layer. Bake for 8-12 minutes, or until the chips have shrunken slightly and are crisp and darker in colour, but not yet brown.

Serves 2-4.

Bacon Flavoured Mash Potato

If the sight of this recipe makes you giddy, then you are a bacon freak just like me. Take this old fashioned classic and turn it into something unforgettable!

 

Fast, easy and delicious!

• 1kg. red potatoes, skin on, cut in quarters
• 1 stick of butter, melted
• 1/2 to 3/4 cup milk (how ever you like the consistency)
• Tablespoon of Chives
•  Saltan Salts Bacon Salt to taste.... (in my opinion the more the better!)

Boil the potatoes until fork-tender. Mash with the skins on with butter and heated milk. Pour on Saltan Salts Bacon Salt to taste - be generous, as it absorbs the flavour! 

 

Crazy LOW FAT Crab Cakes

Crazy Crab Cakes 

I call these crazy crab cakes only because the ingredients sound a little strange, but it’s a simply delicious and not to mention a super low-fat dish!

 

Ingredients:

1 lb. crabmeat
3 tablespoons light mayonnaise
4 tsp dijon mustard
2 tablespoons minced fresh chives
1/2 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp Saltan Salts Rosemary Rock Salt 
1/3 cup plain dried bread crumbs
1 tablespoon canola oil
soy sauce

 

Directions:

Combine crabmeat, mayonnaise, mustard, chives, pepper, Saltan Salts Rosemary Rock Salt and bread crumbs in a meadium bowl.

Sprinkle just a little bit of soy sauce over the mixture and mix it in. Shape mixture into 6 cakes.

Put aluminum foil on your broil pan and place all six cakes on the pan broil for 5-10 minutes or until tops are golden brown.

Makes 6 servings.

 

 

Chocolate Chip Cookies, Saltan Salts Style

Chocolate Cookies with a Twist

Here’s putting a twist to an all-time favourite!  Give your chocolate cookies a kick with a hint of gourmet salt, yep you heard me!

 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup powdered sugar

2 large egg yolks

1 large egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

8 ounces chopped semisweet chocolates

Saltan Salts Chocolate & Vanilla Rock Salt

 

Directions:

Place racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat to 375°.

Whisk flour, baking powder, Gourmet chocolate Vanilla Rock Salt, and baking soda in a bowl; set aside.

Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter, brown sugar, sugar, and powdered sugar until light and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes).  Add egg yolks, egg, and vanilla.

Beat, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl, until mixture is pale and fluffy, 4-5 minutes.

Reduce mixer speed to low; slowly add dry ingredients, mixing just to blend. Using a spatula, fold in chocolate.

Spoon rounded tablespoonful's of cookie dough onto 2 parchment paper-lined baking sheets, spacing 1-inch apart. Sprinkle cookies with Chocolate & Vanilla Rock Salt.

Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until just golden brown around the edges, 10-12 minutes (the cookies will firm up as they cool). Let cool slightly on baking sheets, then transfer to wire racks; let cool completely. 

Tip: Cookies can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.

Makes 24 cookies.

 

Saltan Salts- Gourmet Seasoning, How to Spice Up your BBQ!

            Now everybody can learn how to cook food. I personally make a mean scrambled egg. But the difference in taste lies not only in the way the food is cooked (although it is a big factor), it also lies in how the food is prepared. This is especially true if you’re cooking meat.

            For example, anyone can grab a steak and grill it. Grill it at the same heat for the same amount of time and two amateur chefs will have very similar tasting steaks. What sets apart a great chef from an amateur chef is how the chef seasons the steak. Now professional chefs create their own seasoning and add all their own choice herbs and spices. Sounds delicious, doesn’t it?

            The amateur cook does not need to look any further for seasoning though. Gourmet seasoning is easy to come across! Instead of spending hours and trial after trial attempting to create the best seasoning for your steak, you can just buy one that is already proven to be…gourmet!

            Imagine on a hot summer day you host a BBQ at your own house pool. All your guests are drinking coronas and waiting for the meat to cook. You have plenty of lime for your alcohol loving friends, but you personally feel like the BBQ could use a hint of something original. So what do you do? Check out the Saltan Salts range of Gourmet Seasonings or Rock Salts... Think of Tomato and Onion Rock Salt for a Summery Tang, Smoked Applewood Salt to bring out the Smokey flavor in your meat, or for something original- try HICKORY SMOKED MAPLE Flavor ,  LEMON AND CORIANDER Flavour  on those delicious steaks you’re preparing. Your guests are loving the smell, and the alcohol is only making them hungrier.

 

And then they take a big bite into your delicious steak, those beautiful Summery flavors go perfectly with the taste of Corona and lime. All of a sudden you have the best BBQ they remember. And it’s all because you used a little bit of something special from Saltan Salts, Gourmet Everyday!

 

 

Ham and Potato Soup

Deliciously comforting, filling, and a sure fire family dinner winner! The secret ingredient? BACON SALT... yep- you read it right. Saltan Salts Bacon Salt has a smokey Bacon flavour that is perfect in oh so many dishes, but it surely shines in this Ham and Potato Soup!

 

Ingredients:

3 ½ cups peeled and diced potatoes

1/3 cup diced celery

1/3 cup finely chopped onion

¼ cup diced cooked ham

3 ¼ cups water

2 tablespoons chicken bouillon granules

½ teaspoon Bacon Flavor Salt

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

5 tablespoons butter

5 tablespoons all-purpose flour

2 cups milk

 

Directions:

Combine the potatoes, celery, onion, ham and water in a pot. Bring to a boil, then cook over medium heat until potatoes are tender, about 10 to 15 minutes. Stir in the chicken bouillon, Bacon Flavour Salt and pepper.

In a separate saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat. Whisk in flour with a fork, and cook, stirring constantly until thick, about 1 minute. Slowly stir in milk as not to allow lumps to form until all of the milk has been added. Continue stirring over medium-low heat until thick, 4 to 5 minutes.

Stir the milk mixture into the pot, and cook soup until heated through. Serve immediately.

Makes 8 servings.

 

 

The Classic Potato Sald

A dish that is a guaranteed crowd pleaser... whether it be a Sunday BBQ, or as a lovely side dish, this Saltan Salts version will have you passing the plate for more!

 

Ingredients:

5 potatoes

3 eggs

1 cup chopped celery

½ cup chopped onions

½ cup sweet pickle relish

½ teaspoon Garlic Butter Flavour Salt

1 tablespoon mustard

ground black pepper to taste

¼ cup mayonnaise

 

Directions:

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add potatoes and cook until tender but still firm, about 15 minutes. Drain, cool, peel and chop.

Place eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil; cover, remove from heat, and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop.

In a large bowl, combine the potatoes, eggs, celery, onion, relish, Garlic Butter Flavour Salt, celery salt, mustard, pepper and mayonnaise. Mix together well and refrigerate until chilled.

Makes 8 servings.

 

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Mexican Barbecued Chicken Wings Recipe

The secret to this barbecue chicken wings recipe is how the well-coated wings hold the sauce, instead of dripping all over the place. Add a little something extra to this classic awesome recipe with a SALTAN Salts special twist!

 

Ingredients:

2-1/2 pounds pre-cut chicken wings, or whole wings cut into 2 pieces at joint

1/2 cup ketchup

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

1/2 cup honey

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

1/2 teaspoon SaltanSalts Lemon & Coriander Salt (ground)

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 teaspoon hot red pepper sauce

 

Preparations:

 

Wash chicken wings and pat dry. 

Prepare medium-hot charcoal fire or preheat gas grill to medium high.  

Grill wings over medium-high heat, turning often, until skin begins to get crispy, about 15 minutes.

 

Barbecue sauce:

In a bowl, mix the following: ketchup, vinegar, honey, brown sugar, cumin, Lemon & Coriander Salt, onion powder, black pepper, red pepper sauce. Baste the mixed sauce on the wings, turning often. Continue grilling, basting often, until wings are cooked through and slightly charred but not burned, about another 10 minutes.

 

Makes 4 to 6 servings.

 

 

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