#### Seasoning Salt for French Fries or Fried Potatoes | |
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Seasoning Salt | |
- Ingredients | |
+ 1 medium onion (~80g, but it doesn't have to be exact) | |
+ 4 Tbsp salt | |
+ 3 Tbsp paprika | |
+ 1/4 tsp black pepper | |
+ ~1 tsp (2g) mace | |
* I only have whole, dried mace, so I don't know exactly how | |
much volume it would have as powder. I just used a teaspoon | |
filled with small pieces of mace, but it probably doesn't | |
matter too much anyways. | |
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- Instructions | |
+ Cut onion into small pieces and place in frying pan without oil. | |
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+ Fry onion on medium heat for 15-20 minutes, occasionally turning | |
the pieces, then leave on the hot (but turned off) stove until | |
cool in order to dry the onion pieces. If a gas stove is used, | |
it may be necessary to keep a very small flame on since no | |
further heat comes after it is turned off. | |
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* It may be necessary to increase the time depending on | |
various factors. | |
* The onion pieces may get fairly dark brown, but they | |
shouldn't actually get burnt unless the heat is too high | |
(in the image, they may have gotten a bit too dark | |
because I accidentally had the stove too hot). | |
* It's probably possible to dry the onions using an oven as | |
well, but I just did it with a frying pan and haven't | |
experimented with other methods. | |
+ Grind dried onion pieces, paprika, pepper, and mace together in | |
a spice or coffee grinder. | |
* It might be a good idea to grind the onions alone and leave | |
the powder to dry for a while since the onion pieces often | |
will not be perfectly dry. I haven't experimented with this | |
yet, though. | |
+ Add salt and grind for a few more seconds to mix it properly and | |
make the salt a bit more fine-grained (the salt I get here is | |
relatively fine-grained, but I still found it to be a bit coarse | |
for my taste). | |
+ Note: Even though this seasoning salt is "officially" meant for | |
french fries, you can dump it on a lot of other things as well. |