Wajos Herb Dressing Blend seasoning mix. 40 percent herbs, sea salt, lemon and garlic – the seasoned salt that turns vinegar and oil into a dressing.

Wajos Herb Dressing Blend seasoning mix is a seasoned salt made of 40 percent herbs – basil, parsley, marjoram, thyme, dill, chervil, coriander and sage – with sea salt, onions, lemon granules, garlic, paprika and a hint of chili, 45 g from Dohr on the Moselle. Not a ready-made dressing, not a packet of salad herbs to mix with water, not just a plain herb salt, but the seasoning that is still missing from your vinegar and oil. Vegan.

Herb Dressing Blend seasoning mix from Wajos is made for the problem everyone who eats salad every day knows: the dressing always tastes the same. Vinegar, oil, salt, maybe mustard – and the fresh herbs that would make it better are either missing or have wilted in the fridge. A teaspoon from this jar adds eight herbs, lemon, onion and garlic all at once to your screw-top jar. The dressing tastes like a garden, even in an apartment on the third floor, and it takes just as long as usual.

Herbs and lemon at the front, salt as the base, garlic in the background

The mixture is green and coarse, and when opened, it smells of parsley, dill and basil. The herbs make up 40 percent, a mix of Mediterranean and local varieties: marjoram, thyme and sage for warmth; dill, chervil and parsley for freshness; and coriander and basil in between. Lemon granules add acidity, onion and garlic provide the savory base, and chili sits almost imperceptibly at the very end. Honestly: it is a seasoned salt – 40 grams of salt per 100 grams, so almost half, plus some sugar and a natural aroma. One teaspoon seasons and salts at the same time, so extra salt is unnecessary. This blend is not suitable for those expecting a salt-free herb seasoning – in that case, fresh herbs with Garden Herb Oil are the better choice.

In dressing, in yogurt dips, on tomatoes and over potatoes

The basic recipe: one teaspoon of the blend, two tablespoons of white wine vinegar, four tablespoons of oil, shaken in a screw-top jar – enough for a salad for four. Using yogurt instead of oil makes a creamy dressing for cucumber or potato salad. Half a teaspoon in 200 grams of quark or cream cheese makes a dip for baked potatoes; on tomatoes with mozzarella, the blend replaces salt and basil. Grilled vegetables, scrambled eggs or a chicken breast fillet before frying also benefit from a pinch. It is not suitable for dishes that are already salty – feta, bacon, broth – or for sprinkling dry, as the herbs will remain dry and hard.

Our tip: One teaspoon of the blend with three tablespoons of Lemon on Olive Oil and a spoonful of vinegar – the dressing for green salad that we have on the table during the week.

Mixed in Dohr, where Wajos makes its own seasoned salts

Seasoned salts like this blend are among the items that Wajos mixes in-house in Dohr near Cochem on the Moselle and tests in its own laboratory – the majority of the approximately 900 products are created there. The brand name goes back to Walter Josef Oster, founder of a winemaking family from Ediger-Eller with 15 generations of viticulture, who opened a liqueur manufactory in the 1980s. His son Peter Oster and Ulf Schwichtenberg turned it into a family business with over 80 employees that prefers to remain "controlled small" rather than grow at any cost.

The jar for salad lovers, campers and your first own kitchen

The Herb Dressing Blend is for everyone who makes salad daily and wants to buy herbs less often – and for everyone who has to get by with one jar instead of five in a camper or a small kitchen. As a gift, it is a great addition to a bottle of vinegar or oil; the Herb Salt is saltier, has fewer herbs and omits the lemon. All spices are listed on our Wajos page. Store in a cool, dark place; 45 grams are enough for about twenty dressings. It is not suitable for those who must eat a low-salt diet – salt remains almost half of the mixture.

Eight herbs, sea salt, lemon and garlic – the seasoned salt from the Moselle that saves your weekday dressing.