Beetroot-Cured Salmon Gravadlax

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
How To Eat In: Cooking at Home for Family and Friends

By Adam Byatt

Published 2010

  • About

Gravadlax - or gravlax - was first made by Scandinavian fishermen, who preserved the salmon they caught by salting the fish and burying them in the sand. All we do is replace the sand with a salt-and-sugar mixture, which draws the moisture out of the fish and ‘cooks’ it, leaving behind firm and sweet, slightly salty flesh. To give it an original and interesting twist, I’ve added orange, lemon verbena tea leaves and beetroot. The citrus elements balance the natural fattiness of the salmon, a