No one puts just plain salt on the rim of their cocktail glasses anymore.
Spice and salt companies are coming up with new and imaginative ways of using their products. How about embellishing the rim of your cocktail glass by adding salt, spice and new flavors with every sip? Not the cocktail hour? Use them in the kitchen on your grilled or roasted proteins and vegetables to add depth and interest.
Salts
El Sabor de Oaxaca Chapulin Salt with Chilis has a campfire smokiness taste. It is a sea salt that has sweetness and bitterness combined. It is very complex and makes a wonderful rimming salt for any fruity drink. It is also great as a rub for chicken or seafood, and don’t give a second thought to the fact that it contains ground chapulins (grasshoppers). $16.99.
Red Clay Spicy Margarita Salt is a cocktail salt and grill seasoning combined that has lime and orange peels and chili pepper blended together. This is a citrus flavor with a kick. Pack of two 4 oz. bottles for $17.99.
This is a set of popular cocktail rimming salts that are great with food as well. The lime sea salt is delicious on margaritas and just as good on vegetables, chicken and more. The Smoked Bacon Sea salt goes well with Bloody Marys, rubbed on steak, and as a finishing salt on anything that could use a hint of bacon like roasted vegetables, or eggs. Habanero sea salt gives a boost to any tequila cocktail and any South American dish. $29.99.
Burlap & Barrel’s Black Lime is grown on a family farm in Guatemala. The ripe limes are sun-dried until they oxidize and turn black and tasty. They have a savory, tart flavor that is versatile. It is used on its own on roasted meat, vegetables, in stews – basically anywhere you would use lime juice. It adds extra depth of flavor. Which leads right to cocktails- use it as a garnish with your favorite cocktail or mocktail drink. A 1.07 oz. glass jar is $10.99.
An offshoot of the Black Lime is a partnership between the Syracuse Salt Company – a father-daughter run company and Burlap & Barrel. This combination hand-blends salt with the Black Lime and three other chilis from Burlap & Barrel for a savory, tart, tangy, spicy result. Try on grilled corn, fruit salad, popcorn, basically any food group. It pairs well with a savory cocktail. It was intended as a limited release but was so popular that B & B added it to their permanent collection. $9.99.
Hatch Green Chile Salt by Desert provisions gives consumers a choice between Mild and Hot Green Chile Salt from Hatch, New Mexico. This is a combination of unrefined sea salt from the Sea of Cortez in Baja, California with Hatch green chiles. It can be used as a dry rub for meat or fish, or as a rim salt for a cocktail or mocktail. It is used in New Mexico with many different versions of margaritas. Two 3.4 oz. jars of mild Hatch Green Chile Salt are $28.00.
This group of six full size jars includes Black Urfa Chili, Cured Sumac, Smoked Pimenton Paprika, Wild Mountain Cumin, New Harvest Turmeric and Royal Cinnamon single origin spices. Mix any of these spices with sea salt and you have a fabulous rim salt for your drinks as well as a mixture that will kick up the flavor of whatever you are cooking. It will be fun to experiment.
This also makes a wonderful gift box. $41.99.
This Smoked Cedar Salt is a blend of hardwood smoked sea salt and locally foraged incense cedar leaves to create a delicious finishing, marinating or rim salt. It is great on fish and meat because of the cedar. It is a nice rim salt with savory drinks like Bloody or Virgin Marys. $12.00
Check out our article on Palomas – non-alcoholic drinks
Experiment with the rimming salts to see which ones work the best!
and our article on Shrubs to make your mocktails with.
And our article on EANABS (equally attractive non-alcoholic beverages) with lots of delicious recipes that these rimming salts would enhance!
