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Home-Cured Smoked Salmon
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Home-Cured Smoked Salmon

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Home-Cured Smoked Salmon

If you are an active angler, bring home your own fish and regale your friends with a fishing story or two while you enjoy one of the most appetizing dishes ever to come off a grill.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

791
Calories
34g
Protein
20g
Fat
115g
Carbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 10 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Dill 5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried 4
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Water not in our table 0
Horseradish not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups salt
  • 1/4 cup freshly ground pepper
  • 4 bay leaves
  • 1 Tbs. fresh thyme leaves, roughly chopped
  • 1 wild salmon fillet, 2 1/2 to 3 lb., pin bones removed
  • 2 to 3 handfuls of hardwood chips, soaked in water for 30 minutes
  • Flatbread crackers for serving (optional)
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup crème fraîche
  • 1/2 cup peeled and grated fresh horseradish, patted dry
  • 3 Tbs. fresh lemon juice
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 6 to 7 fresh dill fronds, finely chopped

Directions

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By williamssonoma · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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