Salting Salmon (Chum Salmon, Pink Salmon)

by Editorial Staff

Recipe for salting chum salmon, pink salmon. Can be applied to other fish as well. Instead of salting salmon, you can salt “under salmon” asp, chub, ide …

Summary

Prep Time	15 mins
Total Time	2 days
Course	Main Dish
Cuisine	Russian

Ingredients

Fish (pink salmon, asp, ide, pike, etc.), fillet – 1 kg
Medium-ground salt – 2 tbsp
Sugar – 1 tbsp
Allspice peas – 2-3 peas (to taste)

Salting Salmon (Chum Salmon, Pink Salmon)

Instructions

Prepare the fillet. Cut the fillets along the bone, remove the bone.
Crush allspice.
To 2 st. spoons of salt of medium grinding are poured 1 tablespoon. a spoonful of granulated sugar, add a few peas of crushed allspice.
Everything mixes well.
Sprinkle the fish inside sparingly with the mixture.
Then the fish is folded with the sides of the pulp inward, forming a kind of the whole piece. Place in a suitable dish (saucepan).
Then the fish is pressed with a plate or lid with a moderate weight. The dishes are placed in a cold place (in the cellar or the refrigerator).
After two days, the fish is salted and ready to eat. Its color resembles salted salmon, and its taste also approaches it, and small bones dissolve. In this form, it can also be smoked.
The salting of chum salmon is over, the fish can be served.

Enjoy your meal!

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