There are several reasons to learn how to salt red fish yourself. And the most significant of them is, of course, the cost of the product. With money for a small piece of salted fish, you can buy a kilogram of chilled or frozen fish. And it will take very little time to prepare the delicacy.
How to quickly salt red fish
There are 2 ways of salting - dry and in brine or in marinade. If it becomes necessary to salt the red fish very quickly, then the brine is the best option.
Recipe for quick salting of red fish
For a kilogram of pink salmon, 3 tablespoons of salt and sugar, 1 liter of water are taken. Only slightly thawed fish (until it can be cut) is cut into slices no more than half a centimeter. Pieces of fish are poured with cold brine and put into the refrigerator for a couple of hours. After two hours, the brine must be drained, and the fish is already considered ready to eat.
The brine is also prepared very simply: water, with sugar and salt dissolved in it, is brought to a boil and then cooled.
But you can salt red fish even faster, in just an hour.
Salted red fish recipe
We need:
- 1 kg of frozen pink salmon;
- salt - 4 or 5 tbsp. spoons;
- 1 liter of water.
First you need to prepare a solution from water and the specified amount of salt. Then cut the pink salmon into thin slices. The pieces will turn out neat if you defrost the fish not completely, but only slightly.
The fish is immersed in saline for 5-10 minutes. Then the solution is drained, and the pieces of pink salmon are dried with paper towels or napkins.
The fish laid on the dish is poured with vegetable oil and sent to the refrigerator for an hour. After 1 hour, the fish can be served.
How to salt red fish correctly
The classic recipe for salting red fish
For 1 kilogram of fish, 2 tablespoons of salt and 1 sugar are taken.
The prepared fish fillet is sprinkled with this mixture and placed in the dish with the skin facing out. Lovers of lightly salted fish can eat it after 10-12 hours. But it is still better to give the opportunity to salt for two days. Solki time is also determined by the size of the pieces. You can add spices when salting - peppercorns, allspice, bay leaf.
How to salt red fish deliciously
Gourmets can be offered to salt red fish in citrus marinade, which is made from a mixture of orange peel and grapefruit, which should be taken in half a teaspoon, a quarter teaspoon of lemon and lime zest. Add a quarter teaspoon of white pepper, 1 tablespoon of salt, 0.5 tablespoon of sugar.
A prepared piece of red fish is coated with this mixture from all sides, placed in foil and in a tray. A little oppression is placed on top to make the juice stand out, then everything is placed in the refrigerator.
The marinating time depends on the thickness of the pieces - 1 hour for every half a centimeter. Then the fish is removed, the juice that it gave under the load is drained. Fillets need to be washed, wiped and cut diagonally.
