Gravlax

Name: Gravlax
Yield: Serves 6–8 as a starter or light meal
Ingredients: sugar 3 tbsp; coarse sea salt 4 tbsp; Dill Sauce (see cook’s notes); lemon wedges; black peppercorns 1 tbsp, crushed; white peppercorns 1 tbsp, crushed; salmon (preferably organic) centre cut, about 1.3 kg/3 lb

Preparation info

Serves
6–8
as a starter or light meal

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pepper

By Christine McFadden

Published 2008

About

A Scandinavian speciality in which salmon fillets are cured in a mixture of salt, sugar, peppercorns and dill. White peppercorns are traditionally used, but I prefer equal quantities of white and black – white for bite and black for flavour.

Ingredients

salmon (preferably organic) centre cut, about 1.3 kg/3 lb
coarse sea salt 4

Scandinavian
Scandinavia
Starter
Fish course
Pescatarian
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Scale and wash the fish and cut off the fins. Using a very sharp knife, cut the fish in half lengthways along the backbone. Pull out the backbone and any small bones poking through the flesh.

Mix the sea salt, sugar and crushed peppercorns in a bowl.

Choose a glass or china dish just large enough to hold one of the pieces of fish. Scatter about one quarter of the dill over the b