Oaktown Spice Shop — Umami Sea Salt

Sea salt loaded with black garlic and shiitake. The savory, deep-flavor salt.

Umami is the fifth taste, the savory depth in aged cheese, soy sauce and mushrooms. This salt puts it in a shaker: sea salt blended with shiitake mushroom and black garlic powder, which is garlic slowly aged until it turns sweet and molasses-dark. A pinch makes steak taste more like steak and soup taste like it simmered longer.

Who this is for

• Finishing steak, roast chicken or a fried egg
• Soups and stews that taste flat
• Vegetarians who want meaty depth without meat
• Caesar salad, avocado toast, roasted mushrooms
• Anyone who salts everything and wants the salt to do more

Details

1/2 cup glass jar, 2.1 oz net. Ingredients: sea salt, shiitake mushrooms, black garlic powder.

Hand-mixed in small batches by Oaktown Spice Shop in Oakland, California, one of the Bay Area's best-known independent spice merchants.