Q: I recently bought my boyfriend black truffle salt from a local spice shop for his birthday. With the salt was a promise of a dinner to go along with it.
Of course, the time has come to follow up on this dinner and I'm trying to think of a dinner that would make this salt a star. Any ideas?
Sent by Courtney
Editor: Courtney, how fun! We think that you can't go wrong sprinkling a little on every course: With bread and butter, on some fresh steamed vegetables, on mushroom ravioli. You could even sneak it into your creme brulee for a little sultry depth.
Readers, what do you think? What kind of meal would really show off Courtney's truffle salt?
Related: Simple Appetizer: Bread with Butter and Truffle Salt
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How funny! I just used it for the first time on stovetop popcorn with clarified butter. My husband could not stop raving about it. :)
Butter, radish, dip, pop in mouth. You might wait to spring and fresh radishes to try this.
We've done the popcorn thing too. It's Fabulous!
It goes great in cheesy grits or polenta, and also in mashed potatoes.
Yeah, I can hardly bring myself to use it on anything but popcorn. Not because it isn't good on other stuff, I'm just so addicted to truffle popcorn I don't want to "waste" it. We air pop, then spray the popcorn with olive oil, and sprinkle the truffle salt on.
Steak, sprinkle over oil/ butter for dipping pita or spreading on bread, a simple pasta dish, eggs, homemade salad dressing...
Fried egg! Especially for a yolk running sunny side up. I also love it with garlic-buttered cooked pasta . My absolute comfort food!
risotto!
I'll add my vote to popcorn...it's almost TOO good :) it's also really great on oven-roasted potatoes.
Truffle ketchup! Truffle aioli!
in addition to sneaking it into the movie theater to put on popcorn, we add it to macaroni and cheese. makes any lazy weeknight meal taste fancier!
Yes to popcorn, and to sunny side eggs too! Also, sprinkled over almond butter or avocado mashed up on whole grain toast.
I just got some black truffle salt for my birthday not too long ago, so I'm really excited about the responses to this post. I recently made some simple scrambled eggs with aged cheddar and the truffle salt - they were SO good! The truffle salt on popcorn is also pretty amazing, but a little goes a LONG way :)
Think of things that are yummy with mushrooms on/with them: pizza, asparagus, eggs, greens, the list goes on and on! I would sprinkle it all over everything, but then it wouldn't be "special" anymore :)
I love truffle salt on top of a poached egg - or any egg for that matter - which I then break over a piece of toast ... or even some pasta tossed with a little olive oil and parmesan. So simple but delicious. Also love it with stovetop popcorn. Delicious sprinkled over potatoes, as well as other veggies and chicken.
Yup, eggs eggs eggs. Perfect combo.
Best uses I've found so far (that aren't already mentioned) are on top of homemade crackers, on mushroom pizza and added to french creamy scrambled eggs.
I just bought some truffle salt thanks to a recommendation from a friend. So far, I've had a lot of fun with it. Like others have said, truffle salt on eggs is amazing. Any vegetable that is green and good blanched, works well with it too (think: broccoli, asparagus, etc).
Potatoes go amazingly well with truffle salt—shoestring crispy french fries with black truffle salt is delectable. So are tater tots! Find the ones with a low sodium content in the freezer section (or make your own), and you're a couple steps away from tater tot nirvana.
Like another said, it's great in an aioli too. I just made a black truffle aioli with sun dried tomatoes and paired it with a pancetta-wrapped chicken breast on a grilled bun.
I've yet to try it on popcorn yet, but I've heard great things about it.
In a nutshell, it verifiably goes great on green vegetables, eggs, and potatoes. Mushrooms, too—some unsalted butter, sliced cremini's, flour and stock will make an amazing gravy for a salt-n-pepper seasoned steak. Matter of fact, I'm guessing it would taste pretty amazing on a spring salad too.
I sprinkle mine on fried egg, as someone above suggested, as well as on sliced tomatoes, avocado toast, and home fries. Oh and hard boiled eggs. Delicious!
This recipe will change you life - my wife literally forces me to make this at least once a month.
Take a whole chicken and prep it for roasting. Let butter soften and mix in some truffle salt, then rub it all over the chicken. Put the chicken in a ceramic or clay roasting pan, and roast at 375 until done (use an internal thermometer with an alarm and enjoy some gin and tonics while it cooks!).
It will create a good amount of juices, I sometimes use a baster to remove these so the breast meat doesn't get too soft (I roast all chickens upside down to keep the white meat moist).
It's really worth a try, and leftovers make GREAT chicken salad sandwiches.
We just made a salad last night with frisee, raddichio, crumbled goat cheese, cherry tomatoes, a tangy dressing made with white balsamic, olive oil, anchovy paste, and garlic and then topped it off with a poached egg and a generous sprinkling of black truffle salt. It was delicious! Our dinner guests were surprised and impressed.
I love this sprinkled over a halved avocado and scooping out the velvety flesh with a spoon. Such an indulgent yet simple snack. :)
Popcorn!!!
poached eggs over polenta..yum!!
A friend of mine has a cooking blog and has featured truffle salt twice, both times with fantastic success. She made Italian Herb bread and a really nifty looking potato pizza.
On scrambled eggs!!
I made chicken Fricassee and I put about a teaspoon into a bag with vinegar and oil to marinate 8 chicken breasts before hand and then to go with it I made homemade potato gnocchi and put another teaspoon into the gnocchi. While I was boiling the water for gnocchi I starting a sauce pan with a little butter, white wine, triple cream cheese and gruyere cheese. With the gnocchi I piped it into the pot of boiling water with a bag, so I did small batches and just added it to the sauce as they started to float. I also did asparagus with gruyere cheese sprinkled over the top to make it a complete meal. :) everyone was in LOVE :)