SALMON GRAVLAX
Salmon gravlax is a Scandinavian dish consisting of raw salmon, cured in salt, sugar, and dill. It is often served with grovbrød, a cereal bread.
Provided by Sarah-Eden Dadoun
Categories Appetizer
Time 10m
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- In a small bowl, combine brown sugar and salt together and set aside.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place salmon, flesh side up, on a grate on the prepared pan. Scatter fresh chopped dill over the top of the flesh. Sprinkle with crushed peppercorns and vodka.
- Layer salt and sugar mix, over the top of the fish.
- Refrigerate in a container in the refrigerator for 24 to 36 hours.
- Drain the liquid on the pan. Scrape off sugar, salt and dill. Rinse the fish and pat dry.
- The fish is now ready to be thinly sliced on a bias, leaving the skin behind.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 312 kcal, Carbohydrate 32 g, Protein 23 g, Fat 7 g, SaturatedFat 1 g, Cholesterol 62 mg, Sodium 11054 mg, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 28 g, ServingSize 1 serving
GRAVLAX WITH MUSTARD SAUCE
Steps:
- Cut the salmon in half crosswise and place half the fish skin side down in a deep dish. Wash and shake dry the dill and place it on the fish. Combine the salt, sugar, crushed peppercorns, and fennel seeds in a small bowl and sprinkle it evenly over the piece of fish. Place the other half of salmon over the dill, skin side up. Cover the dish with aluminum foil. Place a smaller pan on top of the foil and weight it with some heavy cans. Refrigerate the salmon for at least 2 and up to 3 days, turning it every 12 hours and basting it with the liquid that collects.
- Lay each piece of salmon flat on a cutting board, remove the bunch of dill, and sprinkle the top with chopped dill. With a long thin slicing knife, slice the salmon in long thin slices as you would for smoked salmon. Serve with dark pumpernickel bread and mustard sauce. You can also serve with chopped red onion and capers, if desired.
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon ground dry mustard
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
- Combine the mustards, sugar, and vinegar in a small bowl. Slowly whisk in the oil and stir in the chopped dill. Serve with the gravlax.
- Yield: 3/4 cup
GRAVLAX
I think of making my own gravlax - the Nordic sugar-salt cured salmon - as the gentle, blue-square cooking analog of an intermediate ski trail: It's mostly easy, but requires some experience. While butchering a whole salmon and cold smoking what you've butchered are also exhilarating milestones in the life of an advancing home cook (both a little farther up the mountain and a little steeper on the run down), buying a nice fillet and burying it in salt, sugar and a carpet of chopped fresh dill for a few days is a great confidence-building day on the slopes, so to speak. The cured gravlax will last a solid five days once sliced, in the refrigerator. If a whole side of salmon is more than you need at once, the rest freezes very satisfactorily.
Provided by Gabrielle Hamilton
Categories brunch, dinner, lunch, seafood, main course
Time P5DT30m
Yield 10 to 12 servings (about 3 pounds)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Cure the salmon: Lay salmon skin-side down, flesh-side up in a glass or stainless-steel baking dish. (A large lasagna dish works well.) In a small bowl, toss together the salt, sugar and pepper until blended. Sprinkle the mixture over the salmon evenly, with abandon, until fully covered, as if under a blanket of snow. Use all of it.
- Spread all the chopped dill on top of the cure-covered salmon to make a thick, grassy carpet.
- Lay plastic wrap or parchment paper over the salmon to cover and press down, then place a heavy weight - such as a 2-gallon zip-top bag filled with water - on top, to weigh heavily on the curing fish. Refrigerate just like this, without disturbing, for 5 days, turning the salmon over midway through the cure - on Day 3 - then covering and weighting it again.
- To serve, mix together the softened butter, dill, shallot and mustard until well blended.
- Remove salmon from the cure, which has now become liquid, brushing off the dill with a paper towel, then set fillet on a cutting board.
- With a long, thin, beveled slicing knife tilted toward the horizon, slice salmon thinly, stopping short of cutting through the skin. Generally, you begin slicing a few inches from the tail end and you slice in the direction of the tail, moving your knife back, slice by slice, toward the fatter, wider belly portion of the fillet. The last slices are always hard to get. Once you have shingled the fillet, run your knife between skin and flesh, releasing all the slices, then transfer them to parchment until ready to serve.
- Spread the compound butter on bread, then drape sliced gravlax on top, and eat as open-faced sandwiches.
GRAVLAX (SWEDISH SUGAR AND SALT CURED SALMON)
Make and share this Gravlax (Swedish Sugar and Salt Cured Salmon) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by Mimi Bobeck
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time P2D
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Remove any small bones from the fillets with a pair of tweezers or needle-nosed pliers.
- Mix the sugar, salt and pepper in a bowl.
- Cover the bottom of a baking dish with 1/3 the dill and rub half of the sugar-salt mixture into the first fillet, on both sides, and lay it skin side down on top of the dill.
- Cover with 1/3 of dill.
- Prepare the other salmon fillet in the same way, and cover with the remaining fillet, skin side up, with the remaining dill on top.
- Cover in plastic wrap, place a cutting board with some heavy weights on top and marinate in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
- Remove from plastic wrap and discard accumulated juices.
- Rewrap and refrigerate another 24- 48 hours.
- Scrape off the marinade and slice paper thin.
- Serve with Mustard Dill Sauce (Recipe #68168).
Nutrition Facts : Calories 262, Fat 5.2, SaturatedFat 0.8, Cholesterol 78.8, Sodium 6382.9, Carbohydrate 22.2, Sugar 22.2, Protein 30.2
SWEDISH DILL SALMON (GRAVLAX)
Serve the slices of salmon garnished with fresh dill and slices or pieces of salmon skin and with gravlaxsas. Makes 8 to 10 servings.
Provided by BeccaB3c
Categories Lunch/Snacks
Time P1DT20m
Yield 8-10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Remove the backbone and other bones from the salmon and cut in half lengthwise.
- Combine the salt, sugar and pepper and rub over the insides of the fish.
- Place one piece, skin side down, in a large bowl or serving dish.
- Place the dill over the salmon. Top with the other piece of fish, skin side up.
- Place a heavy platter over the salmon and weight it down.
- Refrigerate, covered, for 24 hours. Turn the fish once or twice during this time.
- When finished, remove the salmon from the dish and scrape off the seasonings and dill.
- Cut off skin and slice the salmon diagonally into thin slices.
- Serve salmon.
- For Gravlaxsas: Combine the mustard, sugar and vinegar in a bowl and mix well together to make a paste. Slowly add the oil, beating well after each addition. Beat until the sauce is the consistency of mayonnaise. Season with salt and pepper and add the dill. Makes 1/2 cup.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 339.6, Fat 13.1, SaturatedFat 2, Cholesterol 117.9, Sodium 3246.3, Carbohydrate 7.5, Fiber 0.2, Sugar 7.2, Protein 45.5
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