Gravlaks : The joyful meal with salmon

Gravlaks, Sweet and salty

Gravlaks is a Scandinavian food made from salmon. Gravlaks may be bought ready to eat in all better grocery stores, either in whole fillets or smaller pieces. It is, however, easy to make your own and far tastier.

Ingredients

Method

Step 1

Mix salt, sugar and pepper and spread some of the mixture in the bottom of a casserole or platter that is large enough for the fillets to lie flat.

Sprinkle some of the herbs on the mixture. Lay one fish fillet skin side down on the platter.

Step 2

Spread some more of the salt mixture and the herbs on the fish, lay the other fillet on top, head to tail, with the skin up.

Spread the rest of the salt and herbs on top and place a weight on the fish.

Let stand at room temperature for a few hours until a brine begins to form, then place in the refrigerator or a cold cellar and let stand 3-4 days, depending on the thickness of the fillets.

Turn the whole bundle once a day.

Step 3

Scrape off the herbs and slice the fish very thin diagonally.

Serve with mustard dill sauce (below) and bread as a first course or light supper or serve bite size for canapés.

SERVE WITH: Mustard sauce

Ingredients

Method

Step 1

Mix mustard, sugar, vinegar and pepper. Add oil slowly, beating well as for mayonnaise until the sauce is smooth and shining.

Step 2

Stir in dill.

Step 3

The mustard sauce may be stored in the refrigerator for as long as a week. Beat or shake well before use.

Variation

Trout, mackerel, powan and other fatty fish may be prepared and served in the same way.

I recommend ‘Salmon En Croute’  to you who like this food.

what is Gravlaks?

kohyung88:

This website uses cookies.