Simple Way to Make Homemade Salt-Cured and Smoked Lake Trout

Jason Roberson   06/07/2020 17:50

Salt-Cured and Smoked Lake Trout
Salt-Cured and Smoked Lake Trout

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, salt-cured and smoked lake trout. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Salt-Cured and Smoked Lake Trout is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Salt-Cured and Smoked Lake Trout is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Lake trout are best eaten fresh, as the high-fat content breaks down when they are frozen and thawed. Maple-Cured Smoked King Salmon - Steven Raichlen's Project Smoke. • Smoked Rainbow Trout on Masterbuilt Smoker. This lake trout brine and smoking recipe adds hints of peach, subtle sweetness from the syrup and a Salmon fillets are cured with salt and brown sugar, smoked, and painted with sweet maple syrup for a Smoked rainbow trout done in the Bradley Smoker. Dry brined with brown sugar, salt and.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook salt-cured and smoked lake trout using 7 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Salt-Cured and Smoked Lake Trout:
  1. Take 2 fillets lake trout
  2. Take 2 cups AP rub
  3. Take (1 cup kosher salt, half cup granulated garlic, 1/4 cup pepper)
  4. Take 1/4 cup fish seasoning
  5. Get Kosher salt
  6. Make ready 2 cups mayonnaise
  7. Get Juice of lemon

This simple guide will have you eating delicious smoked fish in no time. I'm using two Lake Trout fillets for this recipe, but any of the previously mentioned trout species or salmon will do. Smoked Lake Trout* from the Smokehaus is sure to cure you of your Minnesota nostalgia. Fresh from the waters of Lake Superior, this local favorite is double-cured in brown sugar, then smoked to perfection. *Our Lake Trout is subject to availability.

Steps to make Salt-Cured and Smoked Lake Trout:
  1. Mix the AP rub and fish seasoning together into a jar.
  2. Check the fillets for bones and remove any that may remain.
  3. Cover the bottom of a baking sheet with plain kosher salt about a half inch thick deep and lay the trout fillets on there skin side down. Make sure the fillets are not touching.
  4. Cover the flesh of the trout with the AP and fish seasoning mix about a 1/4 thick.
  5. Cover with plastic wrap and leave in the refrigerator for a minimum of 24 hours.
  6. After 24 hours rinse the salt of with cold water and place the fillets into a large baking dish and cover with cold water.
  7. Place in the refrigerator again for another 24 hours, but change the water after 12 hours.
  8. Drain the water and rinse with cold water and lay out on a baking sheet skin side down and pat dry. Place in the refrigerator uncovered for 2 hours. The skin will be tacky which will help the smoke adhere.
  9. Get smoker up to 225° I used a combo of peach and pair wood.
  10. Set the trout on the smoker grates skin side down and smoke for roughly 3 hours or until the internal temp is 140°
  11. At this point the trout is ready to eat. It has an amazing flavor from the seasoning and smoke, but slightly too salty to eat straight up for my taste. That's just me though, many people prefer it like this or just served over rice or with potatoes.
  12. I like to flake the trout into a large bowl with about 2 cups of mayo and maybe a squeeze of lime or lemon juice.
  13. Spread the trout over a toasted piece of brioche bread and serve next to french fries with malt vinegar.

Smoked Lake Trout* from the Smokehaus is sure to cure you of your Minnesota nostalgia. Fresh from the waters of Lake Superior, this local favorite is double-cured in brown sugar, then smoked to perfection. *Our Lake Trout is subject to availability. The preparation and smoking method are relatively simple and the finished product will melt in your mouth. You can smoke smaller trout whole. Thanks to the low and slow cooking process, the bones will separate themselves from the meat.

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