Pepper Smoked Salmon - Recipe

Now that I’ve extolled upon the virtues of cooking salmon with just a little salt and oil, I’ll tell you the “other way” I smoke salmon.  Yes, I break the rules and apply some home made garlic pepper (1 part garlic powder, 1 part pepper and 1 part brown sugar).

Ingredients

salmon

non iodized salt

garlic pepper

vegetable oil

Directions

• fillet your salmon and remove the skin

• for smaller fillets, first cut in half, then cut into strips

• for larger fillets, first cut in thirds, then cut into strips

• salt your salmon a little heavier than you would a steak, it will

  look like a little too much, but a lot drips off and it will be okay

• sprinkle with garlic pepper

• smoke at about 150 degrees for approximately 4 hours

• about ½ hour before your salmon is done, paint it with vegetable

  oil, I like to use olive oil because it is healthy

• store in gallon ziplock bags, keep a piece of paper towel in the bag to

  soak up the moisture