What do you know about "keta" salmon?

[pedie]

The local Bristol Farms is featuring Yukon Keta Salmon on special for $6.99 a pound. I am not familiar with this type of salmon. Can anyone tell me how it compares to the such varieties as sockeye or coho? When I googled it, it says it also called dog salmon or chum salmon.

[tim]

Hi,

Keta is lighter, milder and flakier that the protein and fattier Sockeye.

I think this is the variety used commonly for canned salmon.

Tim

[David A. Goldfarb]

I've bought this as "chum salmon"--it's usually relatively inexpensive, particularly if you buy the whole fish, as it's seen as less desirable than king, sockeye or coho salmon, but I made gravlax from it once, and it wasn't bad at all.

[pedie]

Well, I went to Bristol Farms to get some to try before the ad ran out tonight. They were all out of Keta but were honoring the ad by substituting wild caught Alaskan Coho salmon for the same price. So I bought the Coho and will have to wait to try Keta.

I prepared it simply by roasting in the oven with a coating of Creme fraiche and a sprinkling of lemon zest and some chopped fresh thyme and rosemary. Yummy!