This post is sponsored by Real Salt – A natural sea salt with more than 60 trace minerals, a unique taste, and reports of health benefits around the globe.
If you’re a regular reader at My Humble Kitchen, you are probably familiar with my favorite pink speckled salt from the good folks at Redmond. Un-refined and filled with trace minerals, I use it in all of my cooking and baking needs.
Since its been nearly 2 years since I’ve written about refined versus un-refined salt, I thought I’d touch on it again. If you subscribed to my 25 Day Grace Filled Journey to Real Food, you should already be familiar with much of this information. If you haven’t subscribed, you can do so at any time.
Refined salt is what you’re familiar with as white table salt. It’s brined in a solution which can include sulfuric acid or chlorine and heated to a point which removes all of its minerals and elements useful to our body. Anti-caking and conditioning agents are added to give it a shelf life without an expiration. In contrast, unrefined salt contains all of its trace minerals and other elements that are naturally a part of its origin and is never exposed to harsh chemicals. Unrefined salt is a whole food product which is easily utilized by the body providing minerals (plus other important trace minerals) that help improve all bodily systems including the immune system, glandular system and the nervous system.
As a culinary use, unrefined salt also has a unique flavor and adds great texture to many different kinds of dishes. In this post I share with you the difference between fine and large granule (kosher) salt to cook with.
Because of the wonderful benefits and taste to un-refined salt, I don’t use it sparingly.
Naturally Sweetened, Salted Honey Caramels
I couldn’t think of a better way to highlight the flavors of Real Salt than in making a salted soft and chewy caramel sweetened with honey and coconut palm sugar.
Making naturally sweetened caramels is quite a simple process.
Over a double boiler, I start by melting the butter. I then whisk in honey, cream, and some vanilla extract. Once the liquids have mixed through I then slowly sprinkle in some coconut palm sugar and a bit of large granule Real Salt until it dissolves and mixes in. I allow the caramel to come to a boil and then clip on my candy thermometer, making sure it doesn’t touch the bottom of the pot, and no longer stir the caramel. Once the temperature reaches about 200F, I transfer the top pot with the caramel to the stovetop and over medium-low heat allow it boil to about 235F to finish.
All in all it takes about 30-40 minutes to cook. Once done, I pour it into a small parchment lined baking dish to cool.
Once cooled, I transfer it to the refrigerator to harden further making it easier to cut.
To finish, once cut, I sprinkle each individual piece with Real Salt.
This honey salted caramel is completely soft and chewy. You can taste the gentle flavors in the honey and a bit more depth and complexity from the coconut palm sugar. The Real Salt is a perfect finishing touch which enhances its flavors and gives it a delightful crunch.
This naturally sweetened honey salted caramel is completely soft and chewy and tastes beautifully topped with large granule Real Salt.
Ingredients:
- 6 tbls unsalted butter
- 1 cup honey
- 1 cup cream
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup coconut palm sugar (sub rapadura or other whole cane sugar)
- 1/2 tsp large granule Real Salt
- Real Salt to finish
Method:
- Line a small baking dish with parchement paper. I add a bit of butter to the bottom of the dish so that the parchement paper stays in place 😉
- In a heavy bottomed saucepan, over a double boiler, melt the butter. Whisk in the honey, cream, and vanilla extract. Slowly whisk in the coconut palm sugar and 1/2 tsp large granule Real Salt until it dissolves and mixes through. Clip on the candy thermometer to the side of the top heavy bottomed pot making sure that the tip does not touch the bottom of the pot. At this point, do not stir the caramel again.
- Allow the caramel to heat up to 200F; about 20-30 minutes. Once it reaches 200F, remove the top pot from the boiler and place directly onto the stovetop over medium-low heat. Allow the caramel to reach 235F.
- Once the caramel reaches 235F, pour the caramel into the small parchment lined baking dish and allow to cool. Once cooled, transfer to the refrigerator to harden further.
- Once hardened, cut into pieces and sprinkle with large granule Real Salt. You can cut them into bite sized pieces and wrap them individually in parchment paper. Keeps best in the refrigerator.
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My Humble Kitchen uses the Real Salt brand of fine salt, kosher salt, and garlic salt.
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I would like to try the RealSalt kosher salt. I have never tried it before.
That sounds like a tasty recipe? Do you think coconut cream would work? I can’t do dairy. 🙁
Absolutely, Emily!
Thanks a bunch, because wholesome (and low allergen) sweet-tooth satisfiers are hard to find.
Seasoned salt!
I would love to try the flavored salts! And these caramels are making their way into our party menu this weekend!!
I want to try the fine salt. I’m new to the idea of “real salt” and I would make the best use of it as my daily “go to salt”, I think. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I would love to try the kosher salt since I’m a fan of conventional kosher.
I would love to try the sea salt! This recipe for caramels looks amazing – can’t wait to try it!!
I’d like to try the seasoning salt first 🙂
WOW! These caramels are calling my name! 🙂 We love Real Salt and can’t wait to give this recipe a try. YUM! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Seasoned Salt!
I would like to try the real garlic salt… Just read the ingredients in my current garlic salt… YUCK!!!!
These are beautiful, Diana!
I hve a NEED for that onion salt. I LOVE a GOOD onion salt for our homefries in the morning.. on a steak or pork that is just waiting for the grill to get ready…GREAT.. now my mouth is watering….
I love Real Salt! I have to take my own supply whenever I visit.
These look delicious! Can’t wait to try the Real Salt!
I use Real Salt all the time, but haven’t tried their flavored salts yet. Want to try the Garlic or Seasoned salt.
I’d like to try the seasoned salt. We used their salt for a long time and liked it.
Would love to try the seasoned salt!
I would like to try the kosher salt, as I use it frequently. Also, where is the most economical place to buy coconut palm sugar?
I would love to try the seasoned salts. I didn’t know they made flavors. Thank you for this opportunity.
I would love to try the seasoned salt, I had NO idea you could buy anything other than just plain old sea salt!
LOVE, love, love Real Salt! And love this recipe, with the palm sugar. 🙂 I have the regular Real Salt as a staple in my kitchen, but would totally use the Kosher version if I could find it near me. Thanks!
The real salt Kosher Salt!
I would like to try all of them.
I would love to try any of their seasoned salts!
I would love to try all the salts! I think I am part deer sometimes…I need a salt lick 😀
I think I would like to try the garlic salt
I never thought about replacing my garlic and onion salts.
I would love to try the seasoned salts
That seasoning salt is one I really want to try.
I would have to say the seasoned flavored. I have never even seen that one yet.
Thanks for this opportunity to win the giveaway!
I would love to try the Real Salt. I haven’t ventured into that healthy area just yet.
I want to try it all!! But definitely the garlic salt!
I bought the RealSalt regular-type, but would love to try the large granule Kosher variety!
Definitely the seasoned salt, but they all sound great!
I like the regular
Would love to try the season salt!
OMgoodness!! I must try this recipe for caramels! I have been using Real Salt for about 5 years now….I’ve always hated “salty” foods, but after trying Real Salt, I LOVE my food! And I would love to try the Garlic, Onion, or Seasoned salt…..they really sound interesting!
probably the garlic or onion!
These caramels look great!
Love Redmond salts and their facial mask.
I would love to try the Season Salt
I love real salt. I have not tried the seasoned salt yet.
Mmmm, these look delicious. My husband’s family is coming next week. If I can wait that long, these would be great to make as a treat! It helps having more people so I don’t eat the whole pan myself…
Also, I would like to try the garlic salt. We enjoy Real Salt and garlic, so the two combined would be great!
This caramel recipe looks good. I love Real Salt and would love to try the seasoned salts.
The Kosher salt. Thanks so much!
looks yummy!
This looks great- and I love real salt!
the Seasoning salt
I would like to try the seasoned salt.
I’d love to try it!
Would love to try the season salt.
Would like to try the seasoning salt. I already use Real salt fine and love the flavor. Thanks for offering this giveaway. Blessings!
I want to try the Real Salt Powder Pouch.
The seasoning salt
The garlic salt …thanks for the giveaway!
I am going to look for this next time I am at the store!
I use Real Salt all the time and recommend it to others. My homebirth midwife recommended it to me over 3 years ago. Real Salt Kosher is my favorite, of coarse (pun intented). (: The garlic is delicious as well! Never had the opportunity to try the onion.
I think I’d probably want to try the Season Salt first.
I would,love to try the flavored salts. I never have.
I would most like to try the sea salt.
I use Real Salt (fine and course) daily. I would use all of their products!
Thanks for the great ideas even for yummy treats to be healthier for my family
Caramels are my favorite candy, even over chocolate! I did not know that Real Salt made flavored
salts. Thank You
The organic seasoning!
They all look great and I hope to win so I can try them all!
I’m wondering how different the Kosher salt would taste but I’m also a sucker for garlic salt! 🙂
would like to try the flavored salts. i didn’t realize there were flavored ones. actually, i haven’t tried the regular one yet, either, and that would be fun, too.
I have used the Real Salt for years, It is such a great product. I would like to try the garlic salt.
I’d love to try the kosher salt, but the seasoned salts sound interesting too!
I’d love to try the Kosher Salt.
Would love to try the season salt.
Would love to try Real Salt. On the caramels, could you substitute anything for the honey? (My son is allergic to honey. 🙁 )
gosh…like the sound of this recipe and I DO like real salt…never tried any of the flavors, but bet they ALL be good!…:)
I have only used the ‘regular’ salt but I would like to try the seasoned salt.
I’m glad it’s in a bundle. I would like to try them all.
Would love to try kosher salt
Love using different salts.
That’s the salt my hubby recently picked up!
I would want the fine sea salt, but my dh would want the seasoned kind. 🙂
Season salt!
I would love to try their regular salt and their season salt.
I’d like to try the onion salt. A number of recipes call for onion salt, but I’ve never seen it made with real/natural salt before.
They all look great but I would like to try the seasoned salt first.
I Would Like To Try The Garlic & Onion Salts.
I printed the recipe. Can’t wait to make it. Looks yummy!
I would love to try out the season salt and the garlic salt.
Sea salt would be great to try! Very nice Carmel recipe too!
Would love to try them all but start with the sea salt! Thanks!
I love all of these. Something fun we do with the seasoning salt is use it on popcorn popped with lots of real butter. Mmm so good! 🙂
We love Real Salt! We buy it in bulk 😉
I would love to try the kosher salt!
I love Real Salt! I have only ever used the fine. I would love to try the coarse salt.
I’ve been using their regular fine grain salt, but I’d like to try their super fine for popcorn if I am remembering right. (For some reason I cannot get their site to load this morning.) I’d also like to try some of their clay products some time.
Yay! I love salted caramels, and Real Salt. I am wanting to get the onion salt, after you posted your Tuscan Bean Soup, which is now on our regular rotation.
I would love to try the large salt granules
I really want to try the natural season salt.
I’d like to try the coconut palm sugar – YUM!!
season salt!
I recently started using the real salt, fine granule. I would love to try the more coarse granules, or garlic salt.
You introduced me to RealSalt and we LOVE it! Thank you so much!
Looks like an awesome recipe. I would love to try Real Salt.
Love Real Salt Sea Salt – would love to try their seasoned salts – thank you!
I am a big fan of high end kosher and sea salt and would love to try this brand.
I would most like to try the Organic Garlic salt first. I think I will also be trying this with the coconut milk or maybe almond milk. Oh I could just eat that whole pan right now!
I already am a RealSalt lover — using both the regular grain and the large grain, as well as the seasoned salt, but I’ve never tried the garlic salt. That sounds wonderful! I LOVE RealSalt and will never change to anything else.
I would most like to try the Seasoned Salt.
I just found Real Salt this summer and we love it! And I don’t even like salt – at least I don’t like the “regular table salt”. I would love to try some of these other Real Salt products that I didn’t know about.
I already use RealSalt, but have never tried the garlic salt!
I would love to try the kosher salt. I use kosher salt all the time!
Love real salt. I buy it at a meijer. Love this recipe!
I just need salt, it is on the grocery list right now
I would like to try the kosher salt.
We love the fine salt! I’d love to try the garlic salt.
Such great products! Would love to try the natural season salt!
Would love to try the season salt.
I would like to try the sea salt….
I love all the real salts, and I even carry it around it my purse, everywhere I go. My family thinks it’s a little crazy, but last night we went to a potluck type dinner and many of the dishes needed salt! We passed my little mini shaker around the table! LOL
We love real salt! Would love to try the fine or coarse! Also could I substitute regular real salt for the coarse?
I would like to try the Real Salt Seasoning Salt.
The kosher salt. I’d like to try it in my baking.
I would like to try the seasoned salt.
I would like to try the fine salt and taste the difference. I can’t wait to try this recipe I love caramel and forgot how easy it is to make.
I would like to try the fine sea salt.
The himalayan pink salt! Thanks for the giveaway!
We love season salt in our house, so that would be #1. We are also new to the real food journey and I had no idea if we could still use it and be “real”! Great news for us!
Season Salt
either the seasoned salt or the caramels ! OK, BOTH !
The Kosher Salt
Would love to try the season salt – I didn’t the grocery store brands a while ago and have never tried a Real replacement!
I’d love to try the season salt!
We only switched to Real Salt very recently and we haven’t tried any of their other products – I’d love to try the garlic and onion seasonings. We use salt-free mixes and add our own Real Salt when we cook, but I bet their mixes would be delicious! Thanks for the giveaway chance : )
I’ve been using this salt for nearly a decade!!!
LOVE it!!
The only thing I use “table salt” for is to throw on ice at the back steps. Once I found sea salt, I never went back to “regular” salt…I hate the taste and even travel with a small salt grinder so I can have sea salt.
I’d love to try the plain salt, to see how it compares to my current brand!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE real salt. I’ve never tried the seasoning salts before though!!
Sea salt!!
Seasoned salt!!!
The Natural seasoning salt sounds yummy!
onion, garlic and table salt
Thanks
I have switched over to using Real Salt’s fine salt for my everyday salt and would love to try their Kosher salt for using in recipes that specify kosher salt.
Seasoning salt
Would love to win this! Real Salt is on my wish list!
I would try the fine sea salt first, then move right on to the kosher….sounds great!
Would love to try the kosher salt!
I would love to try the onion and garlic salts. I have loved their real salt but haven’t seen the others! Thanks for a chance to win them!
I remember your post on salt from your series on Real Food in January. I wanted to try the Real Salt then but haven’t had a chance yet.
I’ve been using Real Salt for a while, but I’ve never tried anything other than the original salt. I’d love to try their seasoned salt.
I LOVE Real Salt! I’ve only tried regular and would love to try their natural flavoring 🙂
The Sea Salt – Kosher!
I would like to try the Kosher Salt. That would be great for cooking with. Would love to make some baked potatoes with that too!
Would like to try the kosher salt. I haven’t tried it yet.
I’d like to try the Kosher Salt.
I think this would be a great salt choice for my farmstead cheesemaking! I’d love to try coarse kosher salt!
The organic seasoning salt. I LOVE seasoning salt and I have never seen on that is organic!
I already use a lot of their products, but would like to try the seasoning salt.
Nice recipe. I hope to try it someday. I think I would most like to try their salts and their toothpaste.
I love salted caramel! Your recipe looks so yummy!
I would love to try any of the Real Salt products.
I’d love to try the Kosher Salt.
I would love to try them all!!
Kosher salt!
The plain salt and the toothoaste 🙂
I’d really like to try the kosher salt
I want to try the fine salt for my ferments.
I already love Real Salt but I’d be interested in trying the season salt.
I like a good seasoning salt. And the caramels made with honey look fantabulous.
I want to try them all
There are many I would like to try, but my first choice would be the season salt.
I buy Real Salt in large containers. I never use plain salt like Morton’s.
I’d love to try the plain Real Sea Salt. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity!
I would love to try the seasoned salt! We just ran out of ours, so upgrading to a healthier version would be great.
Also, do you have any idea how these caramels might be made into something a little less soft? We love caramels at our house for treats, but we prefer them a little bit firmer than these look.
I’d love to try the garlic salt!
I would love to try the Real Salt Organic Season Salt… always looking for a great seasoning!
That looks AMAZING. I’m just starting to realize how much “real” salt can add, as I have never enjoyed salting things with the familiar round blue box salt, it just didn’t add a whole lot.
I want to try the kosher salt. I use the fine salt daily but had no clue they had kosher, large flake salt. Kinda a “duh” moment for me that that didn’t cross my mind. Thanks for the giveaway.
I love their regular salt, but haven’t seen any of the other varieties! The onion salt looks yummy!
I absolutely love Real Salt. I use it on everything, bake with it, and it is always perfect! But I think I’d like to try the Onion Salt from Real Salt. I haven’t seen that one in our stores here.
I would like to try just the plain Real Salt, thanks!!!
I really like Real Salt and have used it for a long time now but I had now idea that they had seasoned salts! I’m so curious to try those!
Kosher salt!
Kosher Salt
Seasoned salt.
I would love to try the season salt!
I love Real Salt! And this recipe…
This looks delicious – and far less intimidating than I expected for a caramel recipe. I’m going to have to try these out next time we need a sweet treat in my house!
seasoning salt
I’d like to try the organic seasoned salt!
I would love to try the natural season salt!
I;d like to try their Kosher salt. Also can’t do Instagram… can’t afford a cell, much less a smart, phone.
I would like to try the sea salt. Those caramels look delicious. Can’t wait to try to make them!
Kosher salt
It does look so awesome and the best ingredients ever. I will definitely try make this sooner or later. This is a genius recipe!
I would love to try the season salts!
I can’t wait to try the variety! I’ve used salt, but not the flavorings. Great! Thank you!
Would love to try the organic season salt.
I would like to try the large granule kosher Real Salt.
I’d like to try the Kosher salt – have used the regular Real Salt.
I would love to try Real Salt Organic Season Salt!
can’t decide . . . .so the variety pak!!
Would love to try . I use a sea salt but would like the flavored ones. Good luck to everyone. And thanks for making these available to someone.
Looks like a great treat.
I’d love to try the garlic salt. Garlic adds great flavor to so many dishes!
I would like to try the garlic salt.
I’d like to try their Organic Garlic Salt, because I use it in everything, and it’s hard to find a “natural” version at the grocery store. I usually mix up my own with sea salt and garlic granules. I’m going to look for the Real Salt version. Thanks!
I would LOVE to try the natural garlic salt !
Seasoned salt!
Yummy!
I <3 everything from Real Salt! The kosher is my favorite!
I would most like to try one of the seasoned salts–onion or garlic.
Would like to try the season salt. I am using the regular Real Salt now.
Garlic salt….it must be a healing powerhouse to combine the two :O)
I would love to try some of the salt spice blends.
The Natural season Organic salt, then the Garlic and Onion salts are the ones I most like to try.
looks so delicious! I’ve never tried their large granular but use the fine everyday.
I’ve been wanting to try the seasoned salt for a while now!
YUM! I love natural salts!
Real Salt is the best! I haven’t tried any of the Real Salt spice blends yet will have to give them a try. I realy need to make these caramels!
Seasoned salt!
Would like to try the seasoned salt, but the caramels look pretty yummy!
Seasoned Salt
Great recipe, thanks! My parents are beekeepers and I have been meaning to make honey caramels for a while – but all recipes I find include corn syrup and other not so great ingredients. I’ll definitely try this one!
Will this caramel recipe work if I omit the sugar?