Post by shayneh2006 on Sept 9, 2014 17:21:36 GMT 10
Indian Salmon Candy.
PIC HEAVY gents !!!!!!!!!!!
Its been too long since I have done this, and although very expensive and time consuming, the rewards are well worth the effort.
So, I purchased two Salmon tails from Cabra, filleted, skinned and sliced into 20mm strips. Net yield was 1320grs of raw prime Salmon.
Next, make the Brine, and this is pretty expensive to make…..
475 mls Cold Water
500grs Dextrose/DME mix(optional) or use B sugar/W sugar mix
45 ml Salt (I used flossy)
500 mls Honey
250 mls Maple Syrup
Mix together and fridge to bring it to a safe temp, then add the salmon.
Brining time is optional but I gave these babies 48 hours which seemed to work real well.
When done, remove and splice a tooth pic though one end of each piece, then hang on a rack
Then, you need to dry these suckers. There’s plenty of methods to do this (room temp under fan is one) but I decided to go the long haul under refrigeration.
So, the rack was placed in my curing fridge, and a small desk fan was put in there too to keep the air moving freely around the Salmon.
You need to dry the fish until it becomes transparent.
Mine took three days
And this is what you are looking for……… 
Again, there is so many methods on how to smoke the Salmon. Some say cold first then hot….. yada yada yada……. 
I find a semi hot works real well……… at 120 – 130F if you can hold your bbq in this range
Today, I had no trouble keeping my kettle within this range using a thin bead Snake (I set it, and let the missus watch it while at work, She said it stayed within all day). 
Smoking medium, Apple and Grape (which later on taste was confirmed a very good decision).
And 9 hours later, reap the rewards…..
This batch has to be easily the best I have done so far. Nice texture….almost aldente if your thinking Pasta, Not dry… but still semi moist and BLOODY DELICIOUS…….
Total Net yield was 800grs sooooooo, works out expensive….. real expensive but nice once in a while to just say ya did it, and did it well 
Fully recommend this one gents.
Shayne
