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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: ZCZ on October 29, 2012, 07:47:03 PM

Title: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: ZCZ on October 29, 2012, 07:47:03 PM

Was "up north" at the cabin the weekend before last.  Sunday morning the lake was like glass.

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A shot of the cabin.

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Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: ZCZ on October 29, 2012, 07:53:59 PM

Picked up a couple Steelhead Trout filets at Costco

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Then proceeded to mix up the brine.
Here is the recipe:
1 gallon water
1 cup salt (I used sea salt)
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
I 3 oz package of dry crab and shrimp seasoning (I used McCormick's Hawaiian Luau)
Freshly ground black pepper ( used about 1 tablespoon)
Four cloves of garlic, chopped & crushed
4 lemons sliced and crushed
1 lime sliced and crushed
2 oranges sliced and crushed
1 large yellow onion, chopped
Fresh chopped parsley

Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: smokeasaurus on October 29, 2012, 07:54:48 PM

Gonna keep an eye out on this cook!

Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: ZCZ on October 29, 2012, 07:56:10 PM

Here is a shot of "the brew" before I mixed in the chopped parsley

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All mixed up with the filets brewing

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Let it soak in the fridge for 24 - 36 hours.  I let it go 24.

Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: ZCZ on October 29, 2012, 07:59:19 PM

Next day I brought out filets out and patted them dry with paper towels and let them rest at room temperature.

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The brine smelled so good with the garlic and citrus mix I hated to dump it out!!

On the grill to smoke at 180º.

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Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: ZCZ on October 29, 2012, 08:01:23 PM

Let them run for 4 1/2 hours.  Here we are just before I pulled them off.

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Put them on a plate and into the fridge to cool

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Close up

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Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: ZCZ on October 29, 2012, 08:04:59 PM

Created some appetizers with crackers, cream cheese, smoked fish and topped with a slice of garlic stuffed olives

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Close up

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They were very good.  Mrs Z says I can make them again.
Never paid much attention to what pellets I had in the grill but believe they were hickory.
I have heard Alder is good as well as mesquite for smoking fish.

Take care until we meet again,
Z

Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: teesquare on October 29, 2012, 08:09:31 PM

WOW........

THAT looks fantastic! Thanks for posting the recipe Z!

Title: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: mikecorn.1 on October 29, 2012, 08:12:44 PM

Everything looks great!


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Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: ACW3 on October 29, 2012, 08:29:21 PM

NIIIICE!!!  I use the Alton Brown dry brine method, but I may have to give your wet brine kethod a try.  Looks good.  Alder is really.  Try the fruit woods with fish, also.  I use apple, or cherry, or sugar maple for my smoked steelhead.


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Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: Keymaster on October 29, 2012, 08:50:46 PM

Good lookin salmon Trout !! I love smoked salmon but thats the only way I will eat it.  :)

Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: muebe on October 29, 2012, 09:19:01 PM

Great job on that Trout Z!  Looks fantastic ;)

Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: smokeasaurus on October 29, 2012, 09:50:23 PM

Glad I kept watching...that looks great!

Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: sparky on October 29, 2012, 10:36:10 PM

looks really good z.  w/ those great snacks i'm going to need a martini.  2 onions & garlic olive plz.   8)

Title: Re: Smoked Steelhead Trout
Post by: Hub on October 30, 2012, 07:29:01 AM

Quote from: sparky1 on October 29, 2012, 10:36:10 PM

looks really good z.  w/ those great snacks i'm going to need a martini.  2 onions & garlic olive plz.   8)

Dirty martini w/2 bleu cheese stuffed olives.

Hub