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Gravadlax
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Gravadlax

12 ingredients 20 min Serves 10 openrecipes
Gravadlax

Cure your own salmon, Scandinavian-style, with dill, juniper, and lemon and serve with a mustard sauce

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

349
Calories
21g
Protein
13g
Fat
36g
Carbs

Counts 9 of 13 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Honey 1 tbsp (21g) 64
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Dill 5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried 4
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Gin not in our table 0
Sauce not in our table 0
Cider not in our table 0
Sunflower Oil not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 x 500g pieces skin-on organic salmon fillet , both cut from the centre of the fish. Ask your fishmonger to pin-bone it for you
  • 75g flaky sea salt
  • 75g golden caster sugar
  • 1 tsp black peppercorns , roughly crushed
  • zest of 1 lemon
  • 8 juniper berries , crushed (optional)
  • small bunch (about 20g) dill , roughly chopped
  • 2 tbsp gin (optional)
  • pumpernickel sauce , to serve
  • small bunch (about 20g) dill , roughly chopped
  • 4 tbsp each Dijon mustard , cider vinegar, honey and sunflower oil
  • 2 tbsp muscovado sugar

Directions

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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