Easy Homemade Gravlax

This fish just melts in your mouth! Great snack for the holidays! How and with what is it customary to eat lightly salted salmon? It is often served without any additions, cut into thin slices. Or they make small, elegant sandwiches.
cook time: 72h
Miles Denholm
Easy Homemade Gravlax

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

184
Calories
5g
Fat
6g
Carbs
15g
Protein

Ingredients (10 portions)

Basic:

Sugar 4 tbsp
Vodka 2 tbsp
Dill 100 g
Salmon (Fillet on skin) 1100 g
Sea salt 4 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
We choose fish. It is traditional to use salmon. But such representatives of the salmon family as trout, sockeye salmon, coho salmon, and Chinook salmon are also perfect.

Step 2

Step 2
Rinse the salmon fillet under cold water and pat dry with a paper towel. Rub it with a mixture of salt and sugar.

Step 3

Step 3
Place cling film on a table or large cutting board. Place the dill stalks on it and the salmon fillet, skin side down, on top.

Step 4

Step 4
Sprinkle the fillet with finely chopped dill in a continuous, dense layer. Sprinkle with vodka.

Step 5

Step 5
Wrap the fish tightly in cling film so that there is no air between the salmon and the film.

Step 6

Step 6
Place the package in a suitable sized container and place a weight on top. And forget about the fish for three days. It is after three days that the pulp becomes denser and at the same time more tender, and the taste becomes more complex. Now thatʼs gravlax!

Step 7

Step 7
Cut the finished gravlax into thin translucent slices with a very sharp knife. Traditional cutting is slanted slices across the fillet.

Step 8

Step 8
You can take black and white bread, soft fresh or crispy toasted; crackers, biscuits, and bread are suitable. You can add butter or soft cream cheese, slices of hard-boiled egg, slices of fresh radish or cucumber. Appropriate flavor accents would be mild mustard or horseradish, dill, sweet onions, capers, lemon or lime.

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