Despite the fact that you can find ready-made salty red fish on the shelves, more and more housewives tend to cook pink salmon on their own at home. Culinary experts recommend following the rules of salmon salting. This is a traditional recipe for salted red fish with added sugar, when in the cold the carcass absorbs only a small amount of salt. According to this recipe, pink salmon will be tender enough, but will not creep, and is also characterized by a beautiful appearance and without a smack of fish oil.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
For cooking, it is advisable to choose a fresh or chilled product, but it is also acceptable to take a frozen version. For preparation, it is recommended to clean the pink salmon from scales, cut off the head and tail, remove the fins, cut the ridge and costal bones. As a result, two loin parts on the skin should remain. If desired, small bones can be removed, after which the fish is well washed under running water.
For salted salmon, only coarse salt is suitable, since only it is able to draw out the maximum amount of moisture, which is the main goal of this method of cooking fish. Small particles, on the contrary, quickly dissolve and saline the carcass, instead of ridding it of excess water. If the carcass glides in your hands, it is recommended to sprinkle it with salt.
Important! The number of spices depends on the size of the fish and the required degree of salinity. The proposed amount is suitable for an average carcass weighing 3-4 kg.
Salmon salmon recipe
There are many options for cooking this red fish in this way.
The most popular methods for preparing fish for salmon salmon are:
- salted carcass recipe;
- classic with lemon;
- in Sakhalin.
Each option has a list of ingredients and its own specifics of preparation. As a result, the dish will have special taste characteristics.
Salted pink salmon recipe
20 30 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
The washed two halves of the fillet on the skin must be cut into small longitudinal pieces.
To make a universal fish seasoning for salting, it is necessary to grind pink and allspice, cloves in a mortar. Add granulated sugar, salt, and sum to the resulting mixture. These ingredients must be mixed until smooth.
Each piece must be rolled in spices and laid tightly in a container. On top of each layer of fish it is necessary to fill in the berries of lingonberry. The container must be closed with a lid.
Place the product in the refrigerator for four days.
After the lapse of time, pink salmon is laid out on a wire rack and allowed to dry at room temperature overnight (8–10 hours).
Ready fish can be served to the table in the form of assorted or as an ingredient for sandwiches, salads and snacks.
The washed two halves of the fillet on the skin must be cut into small longitudinal pieces.
To make a universal fish seasoning for salting, it is necessary to grind pink and allspice, cloves in a mortar. Add granulated sugar, salt, and sum to the resulting mixture. These ingredients must be mixed until smooth.
Each piece must be rolled in spices and laid tightly in a container. On top of each layer of fish it is necessary to fill in the berries of lingonberry. The container must be closed with a lid.
Place the product in the refrigerator for four days.
After the lapse of time, pink salmon is laid out on a wire rack and allowed to dry at room temperature overnight (8–10 hours).
Ready fish can be served to the table in the form of assorted or as an ingredient for sandwiches, salads and snacks.
Did you know? After rubbing pink salmon with table vinegar and leaving it for a while, you can not worry about the scales, as it will easily come off the skin. And in order to eliminate this specific smell, it is necessary to thoroughly wash and dry the fish.
Classic salmon salmon recipe with lemon
20 15 minutes
ground red pepper
1 tsp
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- The washed two halves of the fillet must be dried with paper towels.
- The flesh of the fish should be salted and pepper, add sugar, and top with thinly sliced lemon slices.
- So that the fillet is saturated with salt, it must lie down at room temperature for 2 hours. Then put the fillet in the refrigerator for 4 hours.
- After time, pink salmon with lemon must be wrapped in parchment and hidden in the freezer for a day.
- The next day, fish should be pulled out of the freezer and allowed to lie for a quarter of an hour at room temperature. Now pink salmon is ready for slicing for various appetizers or for allsorts.
Did you know? Initially, the salmon ambassador was used to transport red fish with pomors to glaciers or longer distances. For this, the carcasses were covered with salt and crushed ice. After a while, Russian merchants based on this method came up with a new recipe for salting red fish. The carcass was sprinkled not only with ice and salt, but granulated sugar and various seasonings were added.
Sakhalin-style pink salmon recipe
20 15 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Mix salt, sugar and pepper until smooth. If there is a need to change the number of spices, then you must adhere to a special rule. The ratio of sugar to salt should be 1 to 3.
- The fish should be grated with a mixture of spices on the outside and inside. Squeeze the garlic through a press and apply it over the pink salmon with dried dill.
- The main ingredient is recommended to be wrapped in cloth or parchment and placed in a plastic bag.
- For previously frozen fish, salting will take place in the refrigerator for three days. And if the fish was bought fresh or chilled, then it must first be placed in the freezer for 3 days. Next, you need to defrost the hump in the refrigerator for 3-4 days, turning the carcass from time to time.
- Having taken the fish from the cold, it can be cut into slices and served. Also, the finished product can be used as an ingredient for various snacks.
Important! Freezing fresh fish is necessary to destroy various parasites that die at a temperature of -20°C after 2 days.
Thus, salmon salmon is an excellent snack that can decorate any holiday table. To salt such a fish you do not need to have
