Christmas Party Dinner Series: Eastern European Salted Salmon Gravlax Salmon
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After mixing the sea salt and brown sugar, apply half of it to one side of the fish.
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Sprinkle half of the lemon zest (yellow part) on the fish.
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Spread dill on the fish.
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The last is shredded onion.
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Cover with a layer of plastic wrap.
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Invert the fish and plastic wrap so that it is placed on a clean baking dish.
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Repeat steps 1-5 above
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Cover with plastic wrap to ensure that the fish is completely wrapped in plastic wrap.
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Cover a baking tray and place heavy objects on it. Store in an environment below 4 degrees Celsius for 24-48 hours. During this period, you need to clean up the water overflow from the salmon, 2-3 times.
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This is salmon that has been salted for 48 hours. (The following part has a gif display in the original WeChat public account Chubbylens) Remove all the plastic wrap, wipe off all the spices used for salting, and rinse the fish with drinking water. After soaking up the water with kitchen paper, place the fish on a cooked chopping board for processing. In order to improve the taste of eating, it is best to cut the fish fillets thinly and large. Therefore, if the selected salmon is not too thick, it is recommended to use 45-degree diagonal slices. In addition, the Japanese Yusheng master teaches: When cutting fish fillets, try not to return to the knife, that is, cut with one cut, steady, accurate, and ruthless. The fish fillets produced in this way have the best taste.
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As for the sauce, the most traditional way to eat it is: mayonnaise, mustard, sea salt, pepper, lemon juice, chopped dill and a little olive oil.
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In addition, I also recommend a Southeast Asian-style sauce: lemon juice (lime is better), fish sauce, brown sugar and Sriracha sauce.
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Use potato chips or thin crisps with salted salmon and sauce: a perfect match!
Tips:
In Canada, on Christmas Day on December 25th, except for some Asian-run restaurants will be open as usual, the rest will be closed and rested. Even the Mai XX and various pizzerias that are advertised to be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, this is The only day of rest is allowed in the franchise agreement of these stores. For this reason, banqueting with friends and relatives at home has become the only choice on this day.
In order to alleviate the pressure of the host family preparing meals for many people, some parties will suggest that each household bring their own dishes, and communicate with each other in advance to avoid duplicate samples. This form is called Popluck in English.
The recipes in the next few issues will focus on the popluck format, introducing some dishes that can be made in large quantities, can be prepared in advance, and are also convenient to carry.
