Recipe for Gravad Lax (Salmon) 
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Yield:
8 Servings
Ingredients:
Amount Ingredient
1 kg Salmon, preferably the middle piece of a 2-3 kg fish
2 x -(up to)
3 tsp White pepper corns
200 ml Salt
100 ml Sugar, almost
2 bn Dill
----------------- CLASSIC GRAVLAX SAUCE ----------------
2 x -(up to)
3 tsp Mustard
1 tsp Sugar
1/2 x -(up to)
1 tsp Vinegar
1 ml Salt
1/2 ml White pepper
3 tsp Oil
2 x -(up to)
Instructions:
Instructions: Cut the salmon in 2 filets remove the bone but keep the skin. Dry the pieces with some kitchen paper. Crush the peppercorns and mix with salt and sugar. Put some of the saltmix in a deep platter together with some chopped dill. Put one of the salmonpieces skin down in the platter, add half of the salt mixture and a lot of dill. Put the other piece on top skinside up ( meatside against meatside).and put rest of the salt mix and dill on top.

Cover the dish with aluminium or plastic foil and refrigerate for 2 days.

Turn it around some times during this time (when it starts "watering")

Classic gravlax sauce: Just mix it all together.

[My Tablespoon (Tsp) is 15 ml and my teaspoon (tsp) is 5 ml in case that varies in different contries]

/FISH

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