Ingredients for Salmon Confit with Lime, Juniper, and Fennel

• 2 limões

• 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt, plus more as needed

• 1/2 colher de chá de pimenta-do-reino moída na hora

• 4 dried juniper berries, lightly crushed with a mortar and pestle or the side of a heavy knife

• 1/2 teaspoons fennel seeds, lightly crushed with a mortar and pestle or the side of a heavy knife

• 4 (6- to 230g ) skinless salmon fillets

• 6 sprigs fresh marjoram or thyme

• Extra-virgin olive oil, as needed

• 1 large fennel bulb, with fronds

• Flaky sea salt, for serving

Heat the oven to 163°C. Finely grate the zest from 1 of the limes and place the zest in a bowl (reserve the lime for later). Stir in the salt, pepper, and crushed juniper berries and fennel seeds. Sprinkle the mixture all over the salmon fillets and place them, packed close together, in a small baking dish (a large loaf pan or an 8-inch cake pan will work).

Thinly slice the remaining lime and lay the slices on the fish. Tuck the marjoram sprigs around the fish. Cover the fish with olive oil—you’ll need at least 120ml , possibly even 240ml , to submerge it. Bake the fish until it’s just cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. (Thinner fillets may take less time—start checking at 10 minutes.)

Remove the fennel fronds from the bulb and chop enough to make 120ml . Trim the fennel bulb and thinly slice it on a mandoline or with a very sharp knife. In a bowl, toss the fennel fronds and slices with a pinch of fine sea salt. Juice the zested lime and add juice, to taste, to the fennel. Drizzle the fennel with oil. Serve the salmon and fennel sprinkled with flaky sea salt.

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