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- Course: Appetizer, Hors D'oeuvre
- Skill Level: Easy
- Cost: Moderate
- Favorited: 6 Times
Can be made ahead of time.
Pastrami Salmon
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Recipe
After my stay in Norway, I experimented with gravlax recipes and developed this spicier version, which I named after the American delicatessen favorite.
Yield :
10 servings as a starter or more as hors d'oeuvres
Ingredients
- 1 side salmon, about 2 to 2½ pounds, skin and bones removed
- 1 cup coarse or kosher salt
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 bunches fresh coriander
- 1 bunch fresh Italian parsley
- ½ pound shallots, peeled
- ½ cup molasses
- 2 tablespoons cayenne pepper
- 5 bay leaves
- 4 tablespoons paprika
- 4 tablespoons ground coriander seed
- 4 tablespoons freshly ground black pepper
- 4 tablespoons cracked pepper
- Mustard oil
- Rye toast
- Potato Pancakes (optional)
Directions
1. Place salmon on a platter. Combine salt and sugar. Mix well, and coat both sides of salmon with salt mixture.
2. Combine coriander, parsley, and shallots in a food processor and purée. Coat both sides of salmon with purée.
3. Refrigerate salmon for 2 to 3 days.
4. Scrape marinade from fish and discard. Dry fish with paper towels.
5. Combine molasses, cayenne pepper, and bay leaves in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 1 minute. Allow molasses mixture to cool and, using a brush, paint fish on both sides with molasses mixture.
6. Sprinkle paprika, coriander, ground black pepper, and cracked pepper on both sides of fish. Refrigerate salmon overnight.
Notes
To Serve: Cut Pastrami Salmon into thin slices on the bias, or diagonally, and serve with mustard oil, rye toast, and (if you wish) To Serve: Cut Pastrami Salmon into thin slices on the bias, or diagonally, and serve with mustard oil, rye toast, and (if you wish) Potato Pancakes . .
© 1994 David Burke and Carmel Berman Reingold
Nutritional Information
Nutrients per serving (% daily value)
This recipe serves 10. Nutritional information is based on using 2 lbs of salmon, but does not include Mustard oil, Rye toast, or Potato Pancakes. For nutritional information on Potato Pancakes, please follow the link above.
234kcal (12%)
48mg (5%)
7mg (11%)
43mcg RAE (1%)
538mg
56mg
19g
7g
2g
11g
50mg (17%)
1949mg (81%)
3g (14%)
13g (19%)
2mg (10%)
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