Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, smoked rainbow trout. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Smoked Rainbow trout is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Smoked Rainbow trout is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook smoked rainbow trout using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Smoked Rainbow trout:
- Get brine
- Take 2 cup salt
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 1 water-about a gallon more for more than 5 fish
- Make ready For fish
- Prepare 2 tbsp butter
- Get 1 tbsp black pepper
- Get 1 lemon
- Make ready 2 cup soaked cherry, apple, or walnut wood chips, not chunks
- Get 1 charcoal, hardwood lump preferred
- Make ready 1 tbsp lemon zest
- Prepare 1 bunch rosemary- fresh sprigs preferred, or dried
Steps to make Smoked Rainbow trout:
- Mix water, sugar, and salt together in a large bowl. Add fish and let set in brine for 30-50 min.
- Ready the smoker with charcoal and bring the temp up to about 190°F and not over 200 so the meat doesn't dry out.
- Grate lemon being careful to rotate lemon as you zest so as to get just the skin and not the pith.
- Mix lemon zest with butter and pepper and coat over the outside and inside of the fish.
- Slice lemon in to slices and stuff lemon slices with rosemary sprigs into fish.
- Once the smoker has reached correct temperature add a cup of the soaked wood chips directly on to the coals.
- Right after you add your chips the fish is ready for smoking so place it on a rack in the smoker (or better yet prepare your fish on a smoker grate and just slide the grate back into the smoker) let sit in smoker for 30min opening only to add second cup of chips halfway through.
- After 30 min or more importantly once the internal temp of the fish has reached 160°F internally remove fish and let sit for 5 min. Now enjoy smoked rainbow trout
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