Smoked Trout

Use in salads, on crackers with cream cheese as an hors d'oeuvre, or on bagels for brunch. Let the brine solution cool first before pouring it over the trout. Vary the flavor of the brine mixture by adding a pinch of crushed red pepper, maple syrup, minced fresh ginger, cardamom pods, or crushed garlic. You can choose trout fillets instead of the butterflied trout; fillets will cook faster.

This recipe goes with Smoked Trout, Watercress, and Orange Salad, Smoked Trout and New Potato Salad

Yield: 3 cups flaked trout meat (serving size: 1/2 cup)

Ingredients

• Brine:
• 3  cups  boiling water
• 1  cup  packed brown sugar
• 1/2  cup  kosher salt
• 1/2  teaspoon  freshly ground black pepper
• 3  sprigs fresh thyme
• 2  (4-inch) orange rind strips
• 
  Remaining ingredients:
• 2  (10-ounce) dressed whole rainbow trout
• 2  cups  wood chips
• Cooking spray

Preparation

1. To prepare brine, combine 3 cups water, sugar, salt, pepper, thyme, and rind in a large bowl; stir until sugar and salt dissolve. Combine water mixture and fish in a 13 x 9–inch baking dish. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

2. Soak wood chips in water 1 hour. Drain well.

3. Prepare grill for indirect grilling, heating one side to medium-high and leaving one side with no heat. Pierce bottom of a disposable aluminum foil pan several times with the tip of a knife. Place pan on heated side of grill; add wood chips to pan.

4. Remove fish from brine; discard brine. Rinse fish with cold water; pat dry with paper towels.

5. Coat grill rack with cooking spray; place on grill. Place fish, skin side down, on unheated side; cover and grill 15 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness. Flake fish with fork. Discard skin.

Nutritional Information

Calories:

113

Fat:

2.9g (sat 1.4g,mono 0.8g,poly 0.3g)

Protein:

18.2g

Carbohydrate:

3.6g

Fiber:

0.0g

Cholesterol:

41mg

Iron:

1.5mg

Sodium:

431mg

Calcium:

12mg