Homemade Black Trumpet Mushroom Salt
For a homemade gourmet seasoning salt, try this recipe made with black trumpet mushroom. Combined with large sea salt crystals, this black trumpet salt creates large, grindable crystals for the perfect umami, black trumpet seasoning addition to all your favorite foods. For the best flavor, freshly grind into your dish once it is done being cooked.
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Cooking with Black Trumpets
Cooking black trumpets is a little different than most of the mushrooms I forage. My go-to mushroom preparation is to heat a skillet with some vegan butter, and cook the mushrooms for a fairly long time, until they become golden-brown and crispy. That doesn’t work with trumpets- they’d just shrivel away into wasted hours of foraging. Black trumpets are thin-skinned and fairly small, but have the most incredible savory, woodsy, mushroom flavor that some compare to truffles. That flavor can be easily over powered by other strong flavors, and too much cooking can also really destroy the amazing flavor. I like to dry black trumpet mushrooms with salt (which helps to preserve it) and use it straight on a finished dish without any further cooking.
For help with foraging and identifying black trumpet mushrooms, please check out this previous post where I go into some detail.
Looking for Vegan Food Gifts? Try one of these!
We think this black trumpet salt would make an AMAZING food gift- it’s unique and special, shelf-stable, and versatile. Here are a few other homemade food gift ideas!
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How to Make Black Trumpet Salt
Some people make black trumpet salt by starting with dehydrated mushrooms, grinding them up, and mixing it together with salt. And if you have some dried black trumpets, that’s probably the way to go. But since we started with fresh black trumpets, we decided to process and dry them together, so that we could maintain larger crystals and really join the salt and the mushrooms together. So starting with equal amounts of black trumpets and salt (by weight- you should have more mushrooms by volume), pulse your mushrooms in a food processor until they are finely chopped. Add the salt, and pulse a few more times, making sure the salt and the mushrooms are well integrated but that larger crystals also remain. Then it’s time to bring out the dehydrator, and place it on a lined sheet. As it dries, occasionally come in and stir it around, so that it doesn’t end up as a solid dried sheet of salt. Once it’s perfectly dry, place it in an airtight container. I used the container my salt came in, which was from Trader Joe’s and has a handy built in grinder.
Homemade Black Trumpet Mushroom Salt
Ingredients
- 50 g. fresh, cleaned black trumpet mushrooms
- 50 g. sea salt crystals
Instructions
- Place the black trumpet mushrooms in a blender or food processor, and pulse until finely chopped. Add the sea salt and pulse a few more times, so the salt is integrated well but some large crystals still remain.
- Spread the salt mixture on parchment paper and place in your food dehydrator, set to around 125°F (°C). Every couple of hours use a spoon to break up the salt and move it around, so no unmanageable clumps form and it all dries evenly. Once it is perfectly dry, remove from the dehydrator and place in an airtight container, ideally an old salt grinder. Alternatively, you can use a blender or food processor to grind your salt more finely, and sprinkle on dishes directly. Yields 1/3-1/2 cup of black trumpet salt.
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