Gene's Salmon Rub

Submitted by Julesong

"My friend Gene here in the Puget Sound (who also happens to be my ex) made a wonderfully delicious King salmon recently, and I pried this rub recipe out of him. ;) All the amounts are approximate... he adds necessary amounts by aroma."

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Ready In:: 5mins
Ingredients:: 7
Yields:: 1 2/3 cup, approx

ingredients

1 ¹⁄₄ cups brown sugar, to taste
1 ¹⁄₂ tablespoons sweet Hungarian paprika, to taste
1 tablespoon regular paprika, to taste
1 teaspoon sea salt
¹⁄₂ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper (1 tsp if not freshly ground)
1 teaspoon white pepper
1 tablespoon crushed dried thyme, to taste

directions

Mix all ingredients together.
Use as a rub on your approx 12-lb prepared salmon half.
Note: Gene rubbed the salmon with the above and baked it with a drizzle of olive oil in one of those handy baking-bags and it was moist and delicious!
Note 2: he mentioned that he used "regular" paprika because he was out of smoked paprika - I would've used sweet Hungarian and smoked Spanish, myself.

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I have a very similar recipe with excellent results. Use... 1 TBL brown sugar 1/2 TBL kosher salt 1/2 TBL pepper 1/2 TBL smoked paprika 1/2 TBL Dried Thyme Slowly add just enough olive oil to moisten mixture. Add mix to meat side of salmon fillet. Grill on skin side for 5 minutes. Grill on seasoned side for 4 minutes.

Davidryanree
This came out off really out of balance for me, it was way too much sugar for the amount of spices. I had to adjust the spices in a big way. Thanks to the first recipe comment which gave a more balanced ratio of spices

TaterBug

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Julesong

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