salt

Black rock salt

Kala Namak

4.5 g1 teaspoon

14 g1 tablespoon

Ingredient has no specified units in the source; seasoned to taste. | Powdered black rock salt; 1 tsp ≈4.5 g.

Ordinary salt cannot recreate the sulphurous, volcanic aroma and mineral tang of kala namak.

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  Black salt

  Use equal weight (1:1). In Indian grocers, both names refer to kala namak; imparts the same distinctive, pungent sulphurous aroma.

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  Salt

  Use 75% to 100% of the weight. You retain salinity, but lose the signature savoury, eggy pungency essential to chaats and raitas.

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