How Make Chicken Salt, Australia's Best Kept Secret

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How Make Chicken Salt, Australia's Best Kept Secret

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How Make Chicken Salt, Australia's Best Kept Secret

We are going to make Australia’s best keep secret, chicken salt.

Chicken salt is a salt blend used to season fries.

It’s pack full of flavour and is an Australia takeaway store favourite.

First Thing You’ll Need Is Powdered Chicken Stock.

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There a couple important things to know before choosing which stock to use.

It needs to be low in salt.

Gluten-free because we want rice flour in the salt mix, not wheat flour as it draws less moisture.

We don’t want cakey fires.

Finally made from real chicken, this is because of the flavour we want.

Making the Mixture

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In bowl add:

  • 6 Tbsp table salt

  • 3 Tbsp chicken stock

  • 3 Tbsp garlic powder

  • 3 Tbsp sweet paprika

  • 1 Tsp white pepper

  • 1 Tsp onion powder

  • 1 Tsp Celery seeds

Mix It All Together.

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place a side plate over the bowl and shaking for a minute.

This will help evenly combine the salt and all the spices.

Now that we have our chicken salt.

Fry a Batch of Chips.

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Season With Our Chicken Salt.

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There You Have It! Australia’s Best Kept Secret, Chicken Salt!

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This salt mix takes your fries to the next level.

As all Aussies know, chicken salt is the default when you order fires.

Please give it a go and send us your reactions either in the form of a comment or even better a video.