Salted salmon

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 20 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make salted salmon at home? Prepare all the necessary products. Take chilled salmon - such fish contains much more useful substances than frozen fish. If you have frozen fish, defrost it first. You will learn how to do this correctly by reading the article at the end of the recipe. It is better to use coarse salt, mainly sea salt.

2. STEP 2

   

   Mix sugar and salt in a bowl.

3. STEP 3

   

   Remove the backbone from the fish, if possible the bones along the backbone, and cut into two halves. It is best to take the central part of the fish for salting, the one that is thicker: it will cut perfectly, the pieces will be smooth and beautiful. I don’t remove the films on the fish before salting: I remove them after the fish is salted, and along with them the remaining salt and sugar.

4. STEP 4

   

   Sprinkle half of the dry mixture generously on the inside of the fish. At this stage, you can add different seasonings and spices according to your taste: bay leaf, dill, and some people prefer lemon. I don't like adding extra flavors and aromas when salting fish. Especially salmon: its taste is already too noble to be filled with any additional flavor.

5. STEP 5

   

   Place the fish pieces on top of each other, skin side up. Sprinkle the remaining salt on the skin side of the fish.

6. STEP 6

   

   Place the salted fish in a container, cover and refrigerate for 14-16 hours. Some people think that fish in brine needs to be turned over. I never do this and everything turns out great!

7. STEP 7

   

   Slice the finished fish thinly! It will go perfectly on a sandwich or in a salad. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Ellisha

25.12.2023

4.6

I salt red fish according to this recipe.

Elena Pankina

25.12.2023

4.9

I decided to salt pink salmon according to the recipe: salted salmon at home. The author writes that not only salmon can be salted in this way. I first cut the pink salmon into fillets: took out the bones and removed the skin. I like to salt red fish that is almost ready, and when it’s salted, all that remains is to cut it into slices. Cut into portions. Mix salt and sugar in a bowl. I put the fish in a container, sprinkling it with a mixture of salt and sugar. I put the container in the refrigerator overnight. And in the morning I cut it into thin slices and put it on pieces of bread and butter. Mm...yummy!!!The fish turned out lightly salted, as we like, tender and very tasty!!!!Thanks to Natalya Tsibulskaya for a simple and very tasty recipe! I recommend trying it!