Cedar Planked Salmon With Spice Rub

"Cooking fish on wooden planks is a native tradition. Use untreated cedar that you can buy at the local lumberyard or hardware store. You can usually use them a few times if they are not too badly charred."
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
8
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Soak plank in a tub of cold water for at least 1 hour and up to 12 hours.
  • Score top side of salmon in about 2"/5cm diagonal strips but do not cut through the skin.
  • Rub olive oil into salmon.
  • In a small bowl combine sugar, paprika, salt, black pepper and cumin.
  • Rub into slits.
  • Allow salmon to marinate 10 to 20 minutes.
  • Place salmon on soaked plank.
  • Place the whole thing, plank and salmon, on the rack of a barbecue.
  • Close the lid or cover fish with an inverted metal baking dish and barbecue 20 to 25 minutes or until salmon is cooked through.
  • Remove cover for the last 5 minutes of cooking.
  • Do not turn fish during cooking. This can be brought to the table on the plank decorated with fresh herbs or the salmon can be transferred with a wide lifter to a serving platter or a clean plank.
  • Bonnie Stern.

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Reviews

  1. AMAZING! so delicious! I feel like a master chef!
     
  2. I wish I could count the number of times I have made up this rub for salmon. We plank year round and this is our #1 recipe for planked salmon. I make the rub up x 4 so we are never out and I have given this recipe to so many people. Thank you!
     
  3. Simple & delicious!<br/>The brown sugar & grilling on the cedar plank gave it SOOOO much flavor!
     
  4. We love this recipe. Quick and easy. Thanks for posting.
     
  5. Loved this one! We made a slight variation by splitting standard paprika 50/50 with Hungarian paprika. This added just enough heat to offset the sweetness of the brown sugar since we typically don't venture toward sweeter rubs or marinades. Thanks for sharing for sure - it is already handwritten into our favorites section of our recipe book!
     
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Tweaks

  1. I had smaller fillets so I grilled them for only 15 minutes
     

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