{"product_id":"kala-namak-indian-black-salt-100g","title":"Kala Namak Indian Black Salt 100g","description":"\u003cp\u003eKala Namak is a traditional Indian black salt which can either come from India or Pakistan, which is actually a dark purple-pink in colour (don't ask me?).  We stock this salt as a coarse format and it is blacker in the coarse salt format, it does go paler pink when it's ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKala Namak has a faintly sulphurous and smokey flavour which disappears during the cooking process.  Unsurprisingly, kala namak is the best salt for use in Indian cuisine, especially North Indian cooking, and is traditionally used in making salt blends like chaat masala and the summer drink. Probably one of the most frequent uses for kala namk in the UK is for vegans looking for an eggy flavour in dishes such as scrambled tofu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternative names are black salt, kala loon, kala namak and sanchal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKala namak is a true rock salt, found in large large\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ehalite\u003c\/em\u003edeposits formed through evaporation of ancient seas and is mined from locations in the Pakistani Himalayas.  It is then imported into India where it is converted to kala namak by heating to around 900C in the presence of natural reductive agents (usually either gum Arabic - \u003cem\u003eVachellia nilotica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e-\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSalsola stocksii\u003c\/em\u003e) until it melts, then it is cooled, stored and aged.  The final kala namak consists mainly of sodium chloride, with trace impurities of sodium sulphate, iron sulphide and hydrogen sulphide.  The sodium chloride gives kala namak its saltiness, the iron sulphide the purple-pink colour and the sulphur compounds the distinctive sulphurous aroma that some say is like rotten eggs, or to me is more of a volcanic flavour. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIngredients: salt, vegetable ash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKala namak is good in traditional Indian cuisine like\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/indianfood.about.com\/od\/masalarecipes\/r\/chaatmasala.htm\"\u003echaat masala\u003c\/a\u003e or \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.vahrehvah.com\/Aaloo+Chat:149\"\u003epotato chaat\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eor\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=81UycNQUL8M\"\u003ewhy not make Indian squash curry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eor scrambled tofu or \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/vegansalt.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/05\/black-salt-for-vegan-eggs-with-potato-egg-salad-recipe\/\"\u003ewhy not try and make vegan poached eggs with it\u003c\/a\u003e!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Here's Health","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52465323999574,"sku":"TY1","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/7710\/8121\/files\/KalaNamakIndianBlackSalt100g.jpg?v=1769696986","url":"https:\/\/www.hereshealth.ie\/products\/kala-namak-indian-black-salt-100g","provider":"Here's Health","version":"1.0","type":"link"}