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Last week, I met up with a friend to go to that sinisterly tasty place and made a new discovery: Halen Mon Sea Salt with Taha Vanilla, which merges sea salt from Wales with Tahitian vanilla. (Details) It's delicious -- and I say this as someone who steers clear of flavored salts. The mixture offers the sharpness of the salt with the sweetness of super-tasty vanilla. I couldn't help but buy some.
The container suggests that the salt be used with white fish, shellfish, salad dressings, or creamed vegetables. I chose the white fish and ran off to the store. Tilapia was the best looking choice, unless I broke the budget on huge scallops, so I picked up a fillet and started cooking.
I couldn't decide how I wanted to prepare it, so I went for simplicity: olive oil on parchment, layer with a good helping of green onion, then the tilapia, and then the vanilla salt. I wrapped it up, threw it in a 425 degree oven, and baked it for about 10 minutes.
The fish was sweet, although this salt would be best with really high quality, fresh fish, rather than a cheap tilapia fillet from the local grocery store. Still, it gave the fish a nice sweet creaminess. That being said, the real star was the green onion. My god, try it. Next time I make a parchment-wrapped fish fillet, I plan on use mass amounts of green onion -- enough to have an entire green onion side. Between the olive oil, the salt, and the fish juices, the onions sauteed beautifully and were melt-in-the-mouth morsels of perfection.
As for the salt -- I'm still happy, but I'm also itching for ideas: What sort of recipe would you use it in? Next, I'm thinking about chocolate topped with salt....
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5-13-2008 @2:55AM meghan said... http://cupcakeblog.com/index.php/2008/04/3-vanilla-cupcakes-with-vanilla-sea-salt/
3 Vanilla Cupcakes. :)
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5-13-2008 @7:18AM Luis Antonio said... how about on top of some fresh coconut?
as a supporting player in a jerk chicken recipe? although the vanilla would probably get lost in all of the other spices
rather than chocolate, I can really see this salt playing well with some toffee
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