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What do you like for a salmon recipe?

I usually grill in on the Weber with either gas or charcoal

Sockeye or King would be the variety.

Thanks!

Simple, simple, simple! Put a filet on a chunk of cedar. Baste with Bronco Bob's Raspberry-Chipotle sauce. Smoke until firm. Eat.

I've got a few

For fresh fillets, very tough to beat taking a stick of softened butter and adding 3-5 cloves of minced garlic, diced fresh dill and the juice of a lemon. Put it in the freezer to firm up then put slabs of it over the fillet and a dash of salt and pepper. Cook over some alder chips or chunks on the grill.







Make sure you grill it until the flesh just firms up, and no longer. Ideally you pull it off just prior to it being firmed up and it finishes under retained heat.

Google baked whole fish salt crust. I've been doing one with a sockeye for our annual Christmas carol party, seems to be a big hit. Really simple and makes a nice centerpiece. Last year I screwed up and over cooked it, so keep an eye on the timer not how brown the crust is.

I also poach it, bake it, use it for stir fries, tacos, lomi lomi, poke, sushi....

Sounds awesome!!

Fresh king gets S&P and cooked over a hot grill. Skin on to protect the flesh. Do NOT over cook.

Uber simple and fantastic.

Frozen or other fillets may get different rubs, smoking, or sourcream/mayo type toppings.

Hell yeah, Lott! That looks really good.

Thanks for the ideas gentlemen!

Cooking fillets on a grill is my go to method. Skin down and I never ever flip. Paul, butter is great, but sometime brush some sesame seed oil on it for a switch

Pete,

Agreed on skin down and don't flip on the grill. Sesame oil is magic stuff, it's generally my go to fat when baking fish.

As a coworker once said, "You can put sesame oil on dog crap and it will taste good"

My favorite use for sesame oil and salmon is for poke, and one needs to take all care regarding eating raw fish when making poke.



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Fresh salmon & dill are a fabulous combination !

Winner winner Salmon dinner.

Same here as to skin down and zero flippage. I spray the skin with veg oil to reduce stickage.

S&P and garlic on the flesh side.

+1 to taking the fish off before its fully cooked. I'd rather have rare salmon than over done.

Above is how I do probably 80% of our fillets. Another fave is skinned and pan fried in CI in butter. Same seasonings.

Salt, pepper, pan fry.

Never tried butter...always use peanut oil.

Might try some sesame oil too.

Evahthing betta with butta!

I like it baked in terra cotta with tomatillos, tomatoes, cilantro, chipotle peppers, onion, lime juice, salt and served over butter noodles.

The '69 Baltimore Orioles featured a salmon dish that featured only the medallions cut from the cheeks of the salmon. It was known as Cheek O'Salmon. (I really don't expect anyone to get that.)

+1 on Alderwood it is my wood of choice whether smoking venison, beef, pork or fish. For birds I like Applewood's milder flavor, try it with Rock Cornish Hens.

Hah I knew right away. Was a fairly prolific card collector back in the 70’s as a kid.

Glad that I could jog a memory.

I wish I had some of that cedar up here as this black spruce ain't the wood to use.

I too grill skin down but cut the meat into serving portions first but do not cut skin.
A thin spatula will take the meat off and leave skin on grill.

One of my favorites is sprinkle with Tejan and then lots of garlic chunks followed by
a liberal covering of brown sugar. As above, don't overcook.

For non fresh salmon, one of my favorite marinades is about equal parts bourbon, soy sauce, brown sugar, and then a bit of pineapple juice.

Season it with S&P and some garlic.

Marinade over night.

Makes even frozen farmed stuff taste good. May not taste much like salmon, but it tastes good!

MMooner,
You live in salmon country and eat farmed? Speaking a bit of blasphemy aren't you?

Not on purpose, pak! I certainly won’t look for it. Though I’d pay for non tribal farmed before I knowingly pay an Indian for wild caught. Both are poor options.

Much rather catch it myself.

Wild caught is ALWAYS better!!!

Farmed fish is a dirty word

I have only raised hundreds of millions of chums and pinks, haha.

Agreed!

There was some net pens that failed around here last year. Forget the number, but believe it was several hundred thousand Atlantic salmon spilled out into the sound.

I’ll eat one of them sumbitches if I catch it!

We cure and smoke some for people that go to New York every year. This year I tried some dredged in our dry jerky rub then smoked. Everyone that tried it loved it. Our jerky seasoning is sweet and heavy on the pepper. Barry

Get with me on one of your trips through and grab some different woods for smoking... Native crabapple aplenty... whiskey and a bedroll...

When pak speaks, fish lovers SHOULD LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If anyone disagrees with this they should be drawn and quartered immediately.