Lightly salted salmon

Lightly salted salmon is easy to cook, and the result is excellent! Cooking lightly salted salmon at home is not difficult at all. According to the proposed, repeatedly tested, recipe, the fish turns out very tasty. It is convenient and appropriate to serve it on a festive table, use it for sandwiches for breakfast or dinner. The flesh turns out elastic, perfectly sliced.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 69 % 18 g
Fats 23 % 6 g
Carbohydrates 8 % 2 g
189 kcal
GI: 0 / 0 / 100

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 d
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the products according to the list. I bought fresh trout for salting, you can take the finished fillet.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the salmon from the scales, gut, and carve. Cut off the head and tail, they will make a great ear or soup. We will take fillets from the middle part of the carcass for salting.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Put salt and sugar in a saucepan in a 3:1 ratio.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add cumin seeds. Mix the resulting salting mixture.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Roll the salmon fillets from all sides in the mixture and fold "book".

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cover with a suitable plate (I took the same saucepan a little smaller) and put the load - be sure! Under the yoke, the fish becomes elastic. Keep warm for two hours, and then send it to the refrigerator for 2-3 days, during the salting process, the fish needs to be turned over a couple of times.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Then rinse the fish under a stream of cold water, if necessary, if it is salty, hold it in water, soak it. Drain with a kitchen towel and cut into thin slices. Put the fish slices on a platter, pour lemon juice, garnish with lemon slices and dill greens.

Lightly salted salmon is a great festive snack.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Minced salmon - 130   kcal/100g
  • Smoked salmon - 162   kcal/100g
  • Grilled salmon - 283   kcal/100g
  • Fresh salmon - 201   kcal/100g
  • Salted salmon - 269   kcal/100g
  • Salmon saute - 379   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Cumin - 333   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g

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