Chanterelle Vanilla

Salt Summary

Multifaceted sweet and earthy flavors abound in this fragrant blend with intense notes of mushroom and exotic vanilla. Salinity bridges the sugar savory gap through our use of crunchy Hawaiian Black Lava salt. Use playfully on pan-fried trout, in a spinach omelet, or rubbed on sautéed lamb chops.

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Recommended Uses

• Sprinkle on pan-fried trout
• Blend into a spinach omelet
• Rub onto lamb or venison prior to grilling
• Finish braised fennel bulbs with this blend
• Add to linguine with clams
• Atop a ratatouille of grilled root vegetables
• In any slow-cook application, like braised chicken legs
• Sprinkle on cooked and blended cannellini beans for a great dip
• Added to chicken broth stock
• Atop a basic garden lettuce salad with radish and carrot
• On a freshly fried calamari
• With any wilted greens (try chard)
• In a savory tart of sautéed onions and other vegetables
• On breaded fillets of sole
• Sprinkled on sautéed cauliflower
• In creamy carrot or leek soup

Salt Story

Our Chanterelle Vanilla salt blend is a uniquely mind-boggling twist on the classic mushroom salt. The complexity of the flavor profile expressed in this blend illustrates the ‘darker’ side of unrefined salt with its incredible ability to extenuate a wide range of subtle taste experiences. Among the other salts in the Beyond Blends collection, this is truly an original offering… it combines rich earth-tones through the use of chanterelle mushroom and Madagascar vanilla, with a constant and unending resonance of sweet and savory delivered by organic shallot, garlic and maple sugar, and then, before you can catch your breath, there is an overlay of salinity sponsored by crunchy Hawaiian Black Lava salt, which works to unify all the varied ingredients. Certainly that sentence broke some established rules of grammar (sorry Miss Taft), but hopefully our creative-license gives you a sense of the elegant complication channeled into this gapping chasm of flavor.

When you first smell the bouquet of this blend, it is a humbling sensory experience because it is unexpected yet also enthralling. Similar to reading the first page of a great mystery novel by an unrecognized author, you are drawn into the void of the unknown as previously foreign flavor combinations of vanilla and mushroom embrace like long-lost lovers. And when you taste this dynamo, fireworks will ignite in your mouth and mind, as flavors that might appear to be disjointed, come together in a perfect alliance to conquer your spellbound taste buds.

So how do you use this blend? Thought you might never ask…well, in our taste tests, Chanterelle Vanilla made us weep with gastronomic pleasure when applied to almost any seafood. Seared scallops – heck yeah. Steamed lobster tail – oh gosh yes. Grilled shrimp – please more. Panko crusted squid – my, oh my. And the list just goes on and on. Also try this salt blend on most egg dishes or with ‘gamey’ meats like lamb. Our experience was that although this is a complex combination of flavors, it actually matches well with a wide-variety of great dishes. Disregard convention and playfully use Chanterelle Vanilla to your heart’s content, as we promise to make more!

Premium Ingredients

Hawaiian Black Lava salt, chanterelle mushrooms, Madagascar vanilla beans, organic maple sugar, organic garlic, organic shallot and black truffle panko.