Are you ready for Cinco de Mayo?! May 5th is only a few weeks away and I hope you are ready for a fiesta because I am kicking off a week of recipes that will help you celebrate deliciously! Starting with this super easy homemade lime salt! Now, you may be asking “What do I put lime salt on?” After today’s post, I bet you will find yourself asking, “What else can I put lime salt on?!”
Lime Salt
Lime salt is SO easy to make! The first step is to zest your lime. My friends at Kuhn Rikon sent me some of their awesome kitchen products to try out and the Dual Grater has been rocking our kitchen! It collapses for easy storage so it doesn’t take up a ton of space in our drawer – love that!
I used it to zest a lime for this recipe and I also used it for the orange zest in my homemade orange vanilla sugar, I can’t wait to use it for Parmesan cheese and chocolate and I really wish I had it when I was grating carrots for my vanilla wafer cake. This grater is getting a workout in our kitchen already and bonus: it’s red – my favorite color 🙂
My bright green lime was zested in no time and I was ready to stir it into the sea salt and add my Lime essential oil. (I sliced my little naked lime to add to water and iced tea, so it didn’t go to waste!)
Lime Salt for Cinco de Mayo
Description
Make your own lime salt with just 3 ingredients! It is perfect for margaritas, sprinkling on homemade tortilla chips, coating a baked potato and sprinkled over roasted veggies!
Ingredients
- ½ cup fine sea salt
- 20 drops of Young Living lime essential oil
- zest of one lime
Instructions
- Zest one lime. (You can slice the little naked lime into slices for your water!)
- Stir lime zest and lime essential oil into the salt. Stir well and break up any salt that clumps together.
- Store in an airtight container.
Now, you know that I can’t leave a mason jar full of something giftable without a cute little gift tag, right? If you want to make some lime wedge gift tags for your lime salt, here is how I did it:
- Cut a circle from kraft card stock.
- Cut the circle at about the ⅔ point so the wedge is generously sized 🙂
- Punch a small hole in the tag.
- Stamp “lime salt” on it with alphabet stamps and a black ink pad
- Add some green ink around the edges
- Tie the lime wedge gift tag around the mason jar with green twine.
How do we use Lime Salt?
- sprinkled on homemade tortilla chips
- sprinkled on tacos
- added to guacamole
- sprinkled over roasted veggies
- added to grilled chicken
- in marinades
- on baked potatoes and homemade potato chips.
Do you have any other ways that you would use this yummy tangy Lime Salt?
More Delicious Ways to Use Essential Oils!
And if you want to learn more about essential oils, then I invite you to …
- Read about Young Living’s Seed to Seal Commitment
- Join Simply Essentials – my Facebook Group where I regularly share information, post special offers and more!
- Follow my All Things Essential Oil Pinterest Board for more great ideas!
- Join Young Living as a Customer or Distributor!
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gwen says
I have never thought about making flavored salts! Yummy! I love lime anything.
Linda says
Bring on the margaritas! 5 de mayo will be here before we know it.
Linda
Sarah says
How long would you expect this lime salt to keep after you make it? My husband & I are going to Mexico this Christmas for a belated honeymoon & I’d love to make this as part of a gift basket to our families! Super cute – thanks for the great idea!
Hannah says
How long does this stay good? Do you refrigerate? Thanks!
Rhoni says
Sprinkle some on your popcorn and it will change your life.
Lori C. says
I want to make this and put in a mini bottle attached to a tequila shot. Will this hold up for a couple of weeks?