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Gravlax with Mustard Dill Sauce

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Gravlax with Mustard Dill Sauce

Nordic cured salmon with dill, sugar and salt — sliced thin and served with mustard sauce. Weighting the salmon down for the full 48-hour cure presses out excess moisture evenly, giving the flesh its dense, silky, sliceable texture.

Total time
15 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
0 min
Difficulty
hard
Cuisine
Swedish
gluten-free

Ingredients

600gcentre-cut salmon fillet, pin bones removed, skin on
4 tbspsea salt
4 tbspcaster sugar
1 large bunchfresh dill
2 tspwhite peppercorns, crushed
3 tbspDijon mustard
1 tbsphoney
4 tbspvegetable oil
extra dillfor sauce

Instructions

1

Mix salt, sugar and peppercorns.

2

Place salmon skin-down on cling film. Cover flesh with cure mixture then dill.

3

Wrap tightly. Place in a dish with a weight. Refrigerate 48 hours.

4

Turn every 12 hours.

5

Wipe clean. Slice thinly on an angle.

6

Whisk mustard, honey and oil into a sauce. Stir in dill. Serve alongside.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement. Some ingredients in this recipe couldn't be matched to a reference value, so treat this as a rough estimate.

Calories
194
Protein
0.7g
Fat
14g
Carbs
17.9g
Fiber
0.5g
Sodium
5859mg

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