Spiced Trout Gravlax Recipe - River Cottage

Ingredients

• 1 tsp mace
• 5 juniper berries
• ½ stick of cinnamon
• 2 star anise
• 5 cloves
• Peel of 1 orange
• 100g salt
• 100g brown sugar
• 1 handful of chopped dill
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 organic trout, filleted and pin boned
• 1 beetroot, grated
• 1 whole cucumber, peeled lengthways with a peeler including skin
• 1 tsp salt
• 20g fresh root ginger
• 4 stem ginger in sugar syrup
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 3 cardamom pods -50g sugar -60ml cider vinegar
• 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 1tbsp cider vinegar
• 1tbsp local honey
• Salt and pepper – a pinch of each
• 200ml rapeseed oil
• 1 sprig of fresh dill, chopped