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Vanilla cured salmon with cucumber ketchup, charred cucumber and pickled ginger
Photo: Caroline Attwood

Vanilla cured salmon with cucumber ketchup, charred cucumber and pickled ginger

17 ingredients 10 min Serves 8-10 openrecipes

A sugar and vanilla mixture is used to cure salmon overnight. Serve it cold in thin slices with tangy pickled ginger and a green ketchup.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

528
Calories
26g
Protein
14g
Fat
64g
Carbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 11 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Cucumber 1/2 cup sliced (52g) 16
Vanilla 1 tsp extract (4ml) 12
Watercress 1 cup (34g) 4
Mustard 1 tsp (5g) yellow 3
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Rapeseed Oil not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 vanilla pods
  • 200g/7oz caster sugar
  • 200g/7oz sea salt
  • 1.5kg/3lb 5oz salmon
  • 1 bunch breakfast radishes
  • 1 punnet mustard cress
  • , to garnish watercress
  • 2 cucumbers
  • 100ml/3½fl oz rice wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp caster sugar
  • 1 tsp sea salt
  • 2-3 tsp xantham gum
  • , for griddling rapeseed oil
  • 100ml/3½fl oz rice wine
  • 1 pinch caster sugar
  • 1 pinch sea salt
  • 50g/1¾oz piece fresh root ginger

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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