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    Poached Salmon With Dill Sauce

    This salmon recipe is one of Sweden’s most traditional dishes.

    Poached Salmon With Dill Sauce / Gerd’s Inkokta Lax

    Served with a mayonnaise cream sauce with loads of freshly cut dill, this salmon recipe is a Swedish classic.

    Serves 10

    INGREDIENTS:

    6 cups of water

    2.5 tablespoons acetum or white vinegar

    2.5 tablespoons salt

    10 whole white peppercorns

    10 whole dried pimento peppercorns

    1 carrot, halved

    1 yellow onion, quartered

    1 bundle of dill

    1 bay leaf

    1/2 pound cooked shrimp

    Thinly sliced cucumber, pickled onions for serving

    Dill sauce, recipe follows

    PREPARATIONS:

    Preheat the oven to 350º F. Put all the ingredients except the salmon in the water. Boil the broth for a couple of minutes. Put the salmon in a big oven pan with the skin bottom down. Pour the boiling broth over the salmon and transfer to the oven. Leave in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Garnish with shrimps, thinly sliced cucumber and pickled onions. Serve with boiled potatoes and dill sauce.

    Dill sauce

    INGREDIENTS:

    1/2 cup whipped cream

    ¼ cup mayonnaise

    1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

    1 teaspoon sugar

    Pinch salt

    Freshly ground white pepper

    Lots of freshly chopped dill

    PREPARATIONS:

    Whip the cream, then mix in the Dijon, sugar, salt, and pepper, then fold in the dill.