Homemade Swedish Gravlax

The perfect holiday appetizer, Swedish gravlax is the ideal dish to share with friends and family, and it’s surprisingly simple (and affordable!) to make at home. Traceable back to 14th century Sweden, when salt was prohibitively expensive, but food preservation was necessary, gravlax translates to “buried salmon.” Fishermen would bury their freshly caught salmon in the ground with birch bark, herbs, and spices and let it ferment, resulting in a potent but preserved product. Today’s gravlax recipes are much more palatable and easy to prepare. Just be sure to source the freshest salmon, as you won’t cook it in this recipe. Salmon packs a nutritional punch with omega-3 fatty acids, which help with immune function, memory, skin and heart health.

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