Apple Cider-Cured Smoked Salmon
From hejhogg 14 years ago
- 20-30 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Easy new twist on Salmon
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar shopping list
- 1/4 cup salt shopping list
- 4 cups apple cider or juice shopping list
- 2 cinnamon sticks shopping list
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds shopping list
- 1 teaspoon whole allspice shopping list
- 1 teaspoon black peppercorns shopping list
- 1 bay leaf shopping list
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes shopping list
- 6 sprigs thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme shopping list
- 1 large salmon fillets (about 1 pound each), skin and pin bones removed shopping list
- A small bundle of wood chips or chunks shopping list
How to make it
- To make the brine: In a saucepan, combine the brown sugar, salt, and apple juice and bring to a boil. Add the remaining brine ingredients, remove from the heat, and cool. This brine can be made 2 to 3 days in advance and kept in the refrigerator.
- Submerge the salmon fillets in the liquid brine for at least 6 hours or overnight, refrigerated. Remove the salmon from the brine and place, uncovered, on a wire rack set in a sheet pan. Refrigerate the fillets for at least 6 hours, or overnight, to dry them out. (A dry fillet will take on smoke quicker than a moist fillet)
- To smoke the salmon: In an outdoor grill, make a small fire using mesquite charcoal or briquettes. Once the fire has burned down to a hot bed of coals, after about 1 hour, place the soaked wood on the coals. Position the grate 8 to 12 inches above the smoking wood and place the salmon fillets on the grate.
- Cover the grill and shut any open-air vents. After 5 minutes, check the heat of the grill; large fillets will be cooked and smoked through in approximately 30 minutes if the heat is low, about 300 to 350 degrees F, while a hotter fire will cook the fillets in 15 to 20 minutes. Serve the salmon hot off the grill.
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