Truffle Wet Salt

Salt Summary

Exotic and earthy with mysterious and yet sensual sophistication- the aroma and flavor of a truffle is truly one of the most profound gastronomical experiences available in the food world. We blend premium black truffle oil from France, white truffle oil from Italy with fleur de sel and Hawaiian Black Lava salt for a marvelous flavor and dark iridescent color. Paint this rich blend on pizza crust prior to baking, add to any pasta dish, sprinkle fried eggs, or grilled sirloin steak.

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Recommended Uses

• Sprinkle on vegetable quiche (crazy-good on mushroom quiche)
• Add to a creamy risotto or polenta just prior to serving
• On thin sliced tomatoes with buffalo mozzarella
• Creamy potato salad
• Drizzle on a chopped apple and fennel salad
• Create your own truffle-ific salad dressing with balsamic vinegar, olive oil and lemon juice
• Add to brown butter and drizzle over potato gnocchi mixed with chopped black walnuts
• Sprinkle on blanched whole green beans
• As a final touch to any omelet dish
• Smear on any gamey meats (venison or squab) prior to cooking
• In homemade macaroni and cheese
• On popcorn with a melted, unsalted butter
• With any cream-based soup (try cream of artichoke for a special treat)
• Painted on roasted cod fillets

Salt Story

Truffle. (heart begins to race). Truffle. (rapid breathing ensues). Truffle. (cheeks flush crimson as every cell screams out in culinary anticipation). Truffle. (waves of tingly warmth oscillate through the body as the brain becomes singularly focused). Truffle. (intense expectation overwhelms the senses). Truffle...

Once you have taken your first taste of white or black truffle, it is tough to comprehend what your life was like before that moment. Exotic and earthy with unfathomable depth of mysterious and yet sensual sophistication—the aroma and flavor of this distinctive mushroom is truly one of the most profound gastronomical experiences available in the food world. It is no surprise that truffles are both prized and pricey (truffles are the second most expensive raw food in the world following saffron). There is almost an aphrodisiac quality to truffles as their decadent aroma and flavor become imprinted on our culinary memory.

It is hard to imagine what could be better than traditional truffle salt, but at Beyond the Shaker, we believe we have crafted the holy grail of taste with our Truffle Wet Salt. First, we sought out the highest-grade, cold infused, black truffle oil from France and white truffle oil from Italy, and then our Salt Chef carefully combined these gourmet oils with crunchy fleur de sel for a crisp and controlled touch of salinity. Finally, to perfect the color and textural experience, we add a bit of Hawaiian Black Lava to the blend, which provides our Truffle Wet Salt a black-pearl luminescence akin to Russian beluga caviar. The result is a blended salt of such intoxicating beauty, fragrance and flavor that many of our taste testers ate it directly out of the jar with no accompaniment but the spoon!

Our Truffle Wet Salt possesses a rich consistency that gives the home chef the ability to ‘paint’ on flavor using almost any food as a canvas. For instance, try brushing this salt onto pizza crust just prior to baking, or experiment with smearing it on top of pan-seared tilapia or monkfish. Mix in a bit of the Truffle Wet Salt with almost any rice, pasta or potato dish to add a deep tone of earthy flavor. This blend brings such an enormous flavor, you could candidly place a heaping spoon of it onto a shallow plate with a bit of olive oil, and then surround that truffle-dynamo with slices of crusty French bread, to produce an unbelievably simple and delicious appetizer.

Recipes

• Melange of Truffled Asparagus

Premium Ingredients

Fleur de sel, French black truffle oil, Italian white truffle oil, and Hawaiian Black Lava salt.