Stove Top Smoker Smoked Salmon Gone To Heaven Recipes

STOVE TOP SMOKED SALMON

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Remove the pin bones from the salmon.
• In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, salt, and pepper. Spread 1/3 of the mixture evenly on the bottom of a large baking pan.
• Place the salmon on top and cover with remaining sugar-salt mixture.
• Cover and chill for at least 4 hours and up to overnight.
• Put wood chips in a large bowl, cover with water, and let soak at least 30 minutes. Drain, being careful to catch any wood bits from going down drain and clogging the pipes or messing with the disposal.
• Put soaked wood chips in a wok or roasting pan. Lightly grease a rack with the vegetable oil and set it over the wood chips. Rinse the cure from the salmon under cold water and pat dry.
• Put the salmon, skin-side-down, on the rack.
• Heat pan on high heat until the chips start to smoke. Reduce heat to low and cover pan with several layers of foil and seal very tightly to keep the smoke inside the pan. Cook undisturbed for 30 minutes.
• Turn off the heat and let salmon cool in the sealed smoky pan. When the pan is cool enough to touch, unwrap the salmon. Serve salmon warm, at room temperature, or chilled.

GENTLY SMOKED SALMON

Steps:

• Line the inside of a stove-top smoker (or large wok) with aluminum foil so that it comes at least 2 inches up the sides of the pan. Mix together 1/2 cup salt, the sugar, rice and tea leaves and pour into the base of the smoker or wok. Grease a small (10- to 11-inch) round baking rack and set on top of the spice mixture.
• Season the fish on all sides with salt and pepper and place, skin side down, on the rack. Turn the heat to high (and turn on the exhaust fan above your stove), and when it starts to smoke, cover the pan tightly with a lid, reduce the heat to medium and smoke until cooked through, 10 to 16 minutes depending on the thickness of the fish. Drizzle the fish with extra-virgin olive oil. Serve with the corn and fennel ragu.

STOVE TOP SMOKER SMOKED SALMON GONE TO HEAVEN

Steps:

• Smoke the salmon steaks over medium heat, using alder, cherry or maple using your stove top smoker. (see related recipe).
• While the salmon is smoking, heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and butter in a large skillet until the butter is foaming.
• Stir in the leeks, season them lightly with salt and cook, stirring until they are wilted, about 4 minutes.
• Gently stir in the beans, toss a few times, and pour in the chicken broth.
• Bring to a boil, adjust the heat to simmering and simmer, uncovered, until there is enough syrupy liquid left to generously coat the beans, about 8 minutes.
• If the salmon is done to your likeness before the beans are ready, remove the smoker from the heat and open the top an inch or two.
• Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons oil in a very small skillet over medium-low heat.
• Scatter the garlic over the oil and cook, shaking the pan, until it is a very pale golden brown, about 2 minutes.
• Remove immediately from the heat and stir in the parsley, then stir the whole thing into the beans.
• Taste the beans and add salt and pepper to taste.
• Divide the beans between two warm shallow bowls.
• Top each with a piece of salmon and serve at once.

STOVE TOP SMOKER SALMON FILLETS AND STEAKS

Steps:

• Prepare the smoker with wood chips.
• Place steaks on rack, and season with salt & pepper.
• Smoke until the thickest part of the salmon is warm and slightly opaque (for a medium fillet), 14 to 18 minutes after closing the smoker lid, a few minutes longer for a fully cooked fillet/steak.
• Use the smoked salmon in related recipes: Smoked Salmon Gone to Heaven or Fettuccine with Smoked Salmon, Peas and Leeks.