Hara Pissi Noon: A Recipe for Salt Spiced with Garlic & Coriander

Uttarakhand is renowned for its collection of salts, called pissi noon — salts ground with herbs and spices including green coriander, mint, garlic, mustard seeds and chillies. Shriya Malhotra does a dive into the regional food practices in Uttarakhand including the use of local, wild, and foraged ingredients like cannabis and poppy seeds, and these salts. Read more, here.

RECIPE FOR HARA PISSI NOON

Ingredients
1/4 cup Himalayan pink salt
2 cloves of garlic
10 coriander stalks 
3 green chillies (alternatively, you can use red chilli powder for a drier consistency)

Method
Using a mortar and pestle or sil-batoo, pound the ingredients together

Illustration credit: Shirya Malhotra
Image credit: Pahadi Peesi Noon

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