Gravlax (swedish Sugar And Salt Cured Salmon)

Total Time: 48 hrs Preparation Time: 48 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 lbs center cut salmon fillets (approximately 1 pound each, with skin left on)
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup coarse salt
• 15 coarsely crushed peppercorns
• 1 bunch dill
• mustard dill sauce (mustard dill sauce ii)

Recipe

• 1 remove any small bones from the fillets with a pair of tweezers or needle-nosed pliers.
• 2 mix the sugar, salt and pepper in a bowl.
• 3 cover the bottom of a baking dish with 1/3 the dill and rub half of the sugar-salt mixture into the first fillet, on both sides, and lay it skin side down on top of the dill.
• 4 cover with 1/3 of dill.
• 5 prepare the other salmon fillet in the same way, and cover with the remaining fillet, skin side up, with the remaining dill on top.
• 6 cover in plastic wrap, place a cutting board with some heavy weights on top and marinate in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
• 7 remove from plastic wrap and discard accumulated juices.
• 8 rewrap and refrigerate another 24- 48 hours.
• 9 scrape off the marinade and slice paper thin.
• 10 serve with mustard dill sauce (mustard dill sauce ii).