Cocktails with Celery salt
Celery salt is a seasoned salt in which table salt is the primary ingredient and ground celery or lovage seed supplies the flavouring.
Taste profile
Sharply saline, carrying a green, faintly bitter celery-seed aroma.
How it's used
Sprinkled or rubbed onto a glass rim, or added as a small seasoning accent, it contributes both salinity and celery-seed aroma; a pinch is enough given its concentrated flavour.
Substitutes for Celery salt
Plain salt combined with a pinch of ground celery seed, which reproduces both the salinity and the specific celery-seed aroma that either component alone would miss.
Often confused with
Celery seed
Celery seed is the pure ground or whole spice with no added salt, whereas celery salt is predominantly table salt carrying a smaller proportion of celery (or lovage) seed flavouring.
Description
Producers blend table salt with ground celery (or lovage) seeds, sometimes using dried celery or seed oleoresin in place of or alongside the seeds. An anticaking agent such as silicon dioxide or calcium silicate is sometimes added to keep the blend free-flowing.
