The meat of red fish has always been appreciated for its incredible taste and considered a useful delicacy. Especially popular is the slightly salted representative of the seas, which is so convenient to use in salads and snacks. Today we will tell you how to salt pink salmon at home, because unlike, for example, salmon, it is more affordable. It is worth considering that it is not so greasy, and in addition, it has a bitter taste. Therefore, it is very important to choose the right mixture for salting and use odorless vegetable oil.

Dry salting of pink salmon at home

It is hard to find someone who loves red salted fish. True, many can afford such a delicacy only on special days. But you can find a way out of this situation by simply salting the fish yourself at home. And it is not necessary to buy trout or salmon, because you can use a more affordable form for salting. For example, pink salmon.

Salt such fish is quite simple, the difficulty lies only in its cutting. It is necessary to remove the ridge, fins, remove the skin and clean the carcass from all the insides. The tail and head can be left and welded from them to the rich ear. The main thing is to do everything carefully so that the meat is well separated from the skin.

As soon as the pink salmon fillet is ready, you can proceed to salting it.

  1. For 1 - 1.5 kg of fish, we need three tablespoons of salt and two tablespoons of sugar.
  2. In a plate, mix the salt with sugar and take a container, to the bottom of which we pour the prepared mixture.
  3. On top of it we lay out a piece of fish and sprinkle it with salt and sugar. Put the second blank on top and fill it with a dry mixture in the same way.
  4. Close the container and refrigerate for 24 hours.

Whipped salted fish fillet

Salmon of pink salmon is a quick and inexpensive way to cook delicious fish. It can be served in different ways. For example, as a snack, on sandwiches, rolls and stuffed pancakes. There are a lot of recipes for salting such fish and they are all simple in execution.

But there are two main ways:

  • dry when only spices are used;
  • and wet, in which the fish is salted in a marinade or brine.

We offer you the simplest recipe for wet salted pink salmon in a hurry.

Ingredients:

  • pink salmon (1 kg);
  • three tablespoons of salt;
  • three tablespoons of vegetable oil;
  • six peas of pepper;
  • bulb;
  • Bay leaf.

Cooking method:

  1. Cut the prepared salmon fillet into slices and put in a container for salting.
  2. Separately, we make a pickle. To do this, take ½ liter of water, dissolve the salt in it and fill the carcass with saline. We put oppression and leave the workpiece at room temperature for 2 hours.
  3. Then we merge the brine and fill it with a new one, made of a glass of water and a spoonful of vinegar. We wait 10 minutes and again drain the liquid.
  4. Onion half-ring mode, add it to the fish along with pepper, bay leaf and vegetable oil. Stir, and after 20 minutes the fish will be ready.

Add salmon to salmon

Pink salmon is a very useful fish, because it contains a whole complex of microelements that have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the brain, heart, blood vessels and digestive organs.

The less heat salmon is subjected to pink salmon, the more nutrients it retains.

Salting is considered the surest way to prepare it, especially since the recipe below will allow you to deliciously and simply pickle pink salmon “a la salmon”.

Ingredients:

  • pink salmon (1 kg);
  • five tablespoons of salt;
  • 100 ml of sunflower oil;
  • water.

Cooking method:

  1. Cut pink salmon fillet into pieces.
  2. In boiled water (1.3 liters) add salt and stir until it is completely dissolved. In the salt solution, dip the fish pieces for 15 minutes. Then dry them with a towel and put them in a container in layers. In this case, each layer is saturated with vegetable oil
  3. We put the fish in the refrigerator for 30 - 40 minutes.

How to deliciously salt fish in brine

Unlike salmon or trout, pink salmon is not such a fatty fish, so it is better to salt it in brine.

 

Cooking it is quite simple, you only need salt, spices and a little time.

Ingredients:

  • pink salmon fillet;
  • five tablespoons of salt;
  • two tablespoons of sugar;
  • Bay leaf;
  • two buds of cloves;
  • three peas of black pepper;
  • five peas of allspice.

Cooking method:

  1. Salmon fillet is cut into small pieces and put in a container for salting.
  2. Cooking brine. To do this, take water (1 kg of fish - 1 liter of water), add all the spices to it and put on fire. As soon as the brine begins to boil, cook it over low heat for 8 to 10 minutes.
  3. We take out all seasonings from the finished marinade and give it time to cool to room temperature.
  4. Pieces of fish are poured with the obtained liquid, put the cargo and put in the refrigerator for two days. Then pour the brine, dry the fish and put it in a container.

Cooking in mustard sauce

For salting pink salmon, you can use different recipes for the preparation of marinade. We offer an interesting way of salting in mustard sauce. The fish is obtained with a spicy refined taste.

Ingredients:

  • pink salmon;
  • three tablespoons of sugar;
  • three tablespoons of salt;
  • five tablespoons of olive oil;
  • two tablespoons of vinegar;
  • a spoonful of sweet mustard;
  • a spoonful of spicy mustard;
  • dill.

Cooking method:

  1. We cut the fish fillet into identical pieces.
  2. We take a deep container, grease its sides with olive oil and pour a little to the bottom.
  3. We lay out fish preparations in layers, add dill, salt and sugar. Close the lid and put in the refrigerator for two days.
  4. Salted fish served with mustard sauce. To do this, mix two types of mustard with vinegar and olive oil.

Quick salting of pink salmon in one hour

Despite the fact that pink salmon is a rather dry fish, a quick method of salting will turn it almost into a tender and juicy, noble salmon. Such a recipe will allow you to enjoy delicious fish within an hour after salting.

Ingredients:

  • pink salmon fillet;
  • vegetable oil;
  • salt;
  • water.

Cooking method:

  1. Cut the fish fillet into medium-sized pieces.
  2. We dissolve salt in boiled cold water (five tablespoons of salt per liter of water).
  3. Dip the pieces of fish into the saline for 8 to 10 minutes. Then we take them out, dry them and put them in layers in a container, pouring each layer with vegetable oil.
  4. We put in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.

Lightly salted fish in one day

To prepare salted pink salmon, the main thing is to purchase high-quality fish. The flesh of a good pink salmon has a uniform color, while it is dense and when pressed quickly recovers.

A simple recipe is to rub a mixture of salt and sugar into a fish fillet. For 1 kg of fish, two tablespoons of both ingredients are enough. If desired, you can add to them chopped bay leaf and a few peas of black pepper. We thoroughly fill the prepared fish with the mixture and put it in a container with vegetable oil. We put in the refrigerator exactly for a day.

Juicy and aromatic slightly salted pink salmon can be prepared according to another recipe in which lemon will be used. The main thing here is to choose a juicy citrus with a thin skin.

Ingredients:

  • pink salmon (0.8 - 1 kg);
  • a spoonful of salt;
  • 1.5 teaspoons of sugar;
  • ½ cup oil;
  • two lemons;
  • black pepper.

Cooking method:

  1. Cut the fillet into slices. The thinner they are, the faster they will succumb to salting.
  2. Cut the lemon into thin slices.
  3. Mix salt, sugar and pepper. We rub the pieces of fish with the finished mixture and lay them out in a container in layers. Put lemon slices on each layer and put the workpiece in the refrigerator for 10 hours.
  4. After this time, we fill the fish with lemon with vegetable oil and let it cool for another 4 hours.

How deliciously salted pink salmon after freezing

Pink salmon differs from other species of fish in its specific color, because of this it was nicknamed “pink salmon”. One cannot but single out the moment that this inhabitant of the seas is rich in fatty acids, which means that its use is of great benefit to our body.

 

Many housewives are interested in different questions about how to properly and how much to salt pink salmon. But before embarking on salting fish, you need to consider two important points.

  • The first is that you need to cook it immediately after defrosting.
  • The second is the presence of weak bitterness in the meat. Such an unpleasant aftertaste will minimize salt, and spices will add a subtle flavor.

Spices such as dill, parsley, white and black peppers, bay leaves, garlic, rosemary and mustard go well with pink salmon. For salting, it is better to use rock or sea salt, and it is recommended to do this in containers made of glass, ceramic or plastic.

There are also different ways of deliciously salting pink salmon after freezing:

  1. Salted pink salmon. With this method, the fish is kept in saline for a certain time.
  2. Spicy salted fish. Aromatic herbs and spices are added to the salt solution.
  3. Pink salmon dry salted. The fish fillet is rubbed with salt and sugar.
  4. Salted pink salmon in oil. Marinade for salting fish is prepared on the basis of vegetable oil.

Salting pink salmon at home guarantees the high quality of the final product, because in the recipes we do not use conservatives and shock absorbers that harm the body. Therefore, be sure that your author's slightly salted fish will be not only tasty, but also as useful as possible.

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