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Orange, Thyme & Rosemary Salt

If you're looking for homemade gift ideas, we love this one from Rosie Jameson. Flavoured salts are ideal hamper gifts for the home cook in your life - this one is particularly good seasoning on your Christmas turkey!

15 minutes, plus overnight drying prep,

Serves 1-2 jars

Ingredients

300g sea salt

1 Orange

A few sprigs of thyme

1 sprig of rosemary

Method

Put the sea salt into a bowl. Zest the orange straight onto the salt.

Rinse the herbs if necessary and dry on kitchen paper. Strip the leaves from the herbs and chop very finely. Add to the salt and orange zest and mix thoroughly. Alternatively, all the mix can be blitzed in a food processor without chopping.

Put a sheet of silicon paper onto a tray. Spread the mixture evenly over the paper and leave overnight to air dry.

The next day, wash and rinse your jar/s and put into a warm oven (50°C-100°C) upside down to dry and sterilise for about 15 minutes. Then spoon the herby salt mixture into the jars and label.

Cook's tip: You can make flavoured salts with any herbs you have to hand. Dried chilli works well too!