Article published by : Jacob Franklin on Thursday, April 17, 2014

Category : Food & Beverage

What Are The Uses Of Black Salt Or Kala Namak?


Black salt is excellent digestive aid, its aroma and compounds stimulate secretion of digestive juices and enzymes and promote easy digestion of food. According to Ayurveda Black salt has cooling effects and its use is very beneficial for people suffering with excessive gas formation or acid reflux.

Its digestion improving abilities make it a perfectly safe remedy for treating constipation. People suffering with chronic constipation are advised to consume a mixture made by using Black salt powder and many other spices regularly before meals to have smooth defecation on regular basis. In traditional medication it is also a part of medicine prescribed for treating Goiter and Hysteria.

Black salt is used in many vegan and non-vegan dishes, its unique taste and special aroma makes it a popular condiment used for seasoning dishes with other spices. It is necessarily used in various types of snacks and can be sprinkled over cooked dishes for taste.

If you are making Potato finger chips use Black salt by sprinkling a pinch of it over chips, it will improve their taste and will also give them special aroma.

Black salt is also used along with baked cumin seeds, common salt and asafetida, this mixture can be kept on the dining table to mix with Curd, Raita and fruit juices.

Add a teaspoon of Black salt to soups, this salt gives them unique odor and also improve their nutritional value.

Green Chutneys or Tamarind Chutney also contains Blacksalt for special flavor and aroma; it is also used as ingredient for Masala prepared for various types of pickles.

During summers Blacksalt powder is mixed with different type of drinks like Butter milk, Aam Panna and Jaljeera for better taste and also to replenish lost salts and minerals. With these drinks it also works as great appetizer.

Roasted Cashew nuts mixed with Blacksalt taste exotic and much better than common salt. It can be used with all other dry fruits in roasted form.

Sprinkle a pinch of Blacksalt over fruit salad or any other type of salad. It makes fruit salad really scrumptious and renders a different taste to it.

Add a dash of Blacksalt to Lentils, Vegetables and other dishes after cooking for unique taste and different color.

Without Blacksalt powder any Chat dish is incomplete and tasteless. It is used in preparing Pani for Pani Puri and is sprinkled over Dahi Tikka, Aloo Tikki, Dahi Sonth etc.

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