Gomasio
This is even better than plain salt! You find it on restaurant
tables in Korea.
A coffee bean mill should do a great job. To clean the grinder,
brush out the coffee residue, put in some crumbled fresh bread,
grind it and brush it out. The recipe is from David and Nikki
Goldbeck, cookbook authors.
The Oriental combination of salt and toasted ground sesame seeds is
used like conventional salt at the table but provides much less
sodium.
4 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 teaspoon salt
Toast seeds in a dry skillet until they just begin to color. Use low
heat and shake the skillet often. Watch closely, as they can burn
surprisingly fast. While still hot, grind in a blender or food
processor, or pound fine with a mortar and pestle. When crushed, add
salt and process or pound a few seconds longer to coat salt with oil
from the seeds.
Makes 1/4 cup.
NOTE: Do not prepare more than this amount at one time (except for
quantity cooking), so that the sesame salt is always fresh. |