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Gravad laks is a signature dish of Denmark; we have verified places to eat it in Copenhagen. Scandinavian salt-and-sugar cured raw salmon, flavoured with dill and white pepper, sliced thin and served with mustard-dill sauce on rye bread. Start with where to eat Gravad laks in Copenhagen.
Scandinavian salt-and-sugar cured raw salmon, flavoured with dill and white pepper, sliced thin and served with mustard-dill sauce on rye bread. A Christmas table staple turned year-round smørrebrød classic.
Gravad laks (literally 'buried salmon') is the medieval Scandinavian preservation technique of curing salmon under salt and sugar in the ground, with the modern Danish version dating to the 19th century when sugar became widely available. The Christmas julefrokost table without gravlax is incomplete in Denmark. Schønnemann and Aamanns 1921 plate the canonical smørrebrød with mustard-dill sauce; Torvehallerne fishmongers cure their own daily.
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