Traditional lox recipe
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Nova lox recipe.
Homemade Lox
Most commonly served with cream cheese, tomato, and red onions on an everything bagel, lox is a crucial part of a New York staple. As delicious as they are, those few slices on your bagel can set your wallet back quite a bit—which is all the more reason to make lox at home.
What is lox?
Derived from the Yiddish word for salmon, lox is cured salmon.
Scandinavian lox recipe
Our version below is more akin to gravlax, which is a Nordic variation that includes dill and juniper alongside the basic salt and sugar cure. All of these additional herb and spices are optional: for unadulterated cured salmon, you only need salt and sugar.
Lox is different from smoked salmon, which requires an additional process of gently smoking the cured fish by using low heat from burning wood chips over a long period of time. Although some lox continue on to a cold-smoke for additional flavor development, our version keeps it cool and simple by skipping the intensive smoking process that can be difficult to achieve at home.
Notes on fish safety
Lox is cured, but it is not cooked—which means it's super
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