Grandmother's Salmon - Salmó de l'Àvia

A traditional Catalan recipe for marinating fresh salmon with salt and sugar - an ancestral method that preserves fish perfectly.

Ingredients

• 1 fresh salmon cut into two parts (fillets), unscaled
• Dill
• 1kg sugar
• 1kg salt

Instructions

1. Prepare salmon: Remove all remaining bones from the edges with tweezers.

2. Season: Place dill on top of the salmon.

3. Prepare mixture: Mix 1kg sugar and 1kg salt.

4. Cure: Cover the fish with the salt-sugar mixture and cover with plastic wrap.

5. Refrigerate: Leave about 24 hours in the refrigerator.

6. Finish: Then pour off the water that will have formed, discard the salt/sugar and rinse the fish under running water to remove the salt.

Nutritional Information

• Preparation time: 15 minutes
• Curing time: 24 hours
• Total time: 24 hours 15 minutes
• Difficulty: Easy

Tips

• It’s important to use very fresh salmon
• The ratio of salt and sugar must be equal
• The fish is perfectly preserved with this method
• Enjoy!