How to salt red fish for sandwiches at home: add one special ingredient

Red fish for sandwiches can be very easily salted at home. It will be very tasty if you add lemon and orange zest in combination with chopped herbs. Also, do not forget about one very important ingredient that makes the fish perfect – sugar.

Food blogger Iryna Kharchishina (irisha_redko) shared a universal recipe for salted salmon for sandwiches on Instagram. You can eat it the next day.

Ingredients:

• salmon fillet – 400 g
• salt – 30 g
• sugar – 10 g
• zest of 1 lemon
• zest of 1 orange
• dill

Method of preparation:

1. Sprinkle salmon with salt.

2. Sprinkle with sugar on all sides.

3. Leave to marinate for 12 hours in the refrigerator.

4. Remove and dry the salmon.

5. Grate the lemon and orange zest.

6. Chop the dill.

7. Mix everything.

8. Rub the salmon on top with this mixture.

9. Put the salmon in parchment and leave it in the refrigerator for another 2 hours.