Gene's Salmon Rub

Julesong's Note:

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.

• Total Time: 5 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 1.666666 cup, ap ...

• 1 ¼ cups brown sugar , to taste
• 1 ½ tablespoons sweet Hungarian paprika , to taste
• 1 tablespoon regular paprika , to taste
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• ½ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper (1 tsp if not freshly ground)
• 1 teaspoon white pepper
• 1 tablespoon crushed dried thyme , to taste

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients together.
2. Use as a rub on your approx 12-lb prepared salmon half.
3. 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!
4. 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.

Reviews

[Davidryanree]

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.

[TaterBug! :)]

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