In the vernacular, lovage is called "Maggikraut". And rightly so, because in a homemade seasoning salt with only two ingredients, the taste is deceptively similar.
Lovage is a grateful plant in the garden, because it grows sprawling up to two meters high and from May to late summer you can harvest plenty of it. The leaves flavor soups as well as cottage cheese. You won't find the ingredient in the well-known Maggi seasoning from the supermarket, but the taste is so similar that you can simply make your own lovage salt as a healthier alternative to the finished product without artificial additives and flavor enhancers.
Natural Maggi Alternative: Homemade Lovage Salt
For lovage salt you only need two ingredients. But you can spice it up well with other herbs and pepper. © Panthermedia/Imago
In order to process lovage into a salt, you should first dry it. You can use a dehydrator or, if you don't have one, let it air dry gently. To do this, pluck the leaves from the stems and spread them loosely on a tray or tray, which you line beforehand with a kitchen towel. Now leave the leaves open in a dark dry room for about a week until they are rustle dry.
In the YouTube blog HerdBär'n you can see vividly how the lovage is prepared and dried - and how you can tell that it is really dry:
The herb salt is well received by one user, and she has a special idea for using it: "I grind my lovage salt very finely and fill it into small jars as a gift."
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The preparation of lovage salt is quick
The lovage salt is easy to make and you only need two to three ingredients:
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Bottled in a sealed jar, the lovage salt will keep for at least a year. By the way, you don't have to dispose of the dried seeds of lovage and the stems, they can still be stored very well and added whole to a soup or gravy for seasoning - fish out the stems again later.