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So there's an asian grocery near us called Seafood City that has whole fish that you can get at great prices and they will clean the fish for you while you wait. They'll also fry the fish if you want, too, though I'm not exactly sure how. Maybe I'll test it it with a small, cheap fish sometime and see.
In any case, I brought home a cleaned 11 pound salmon. Andrew filleted it, which is good because I'm terrible at deboning fish. So this was a bit of a tough part. That said, I can get filleted salmon if I want, but not for $2.99/lb for a fish of this quality.
We took one side of the fish (the other is in the refrigerator, awaiting another terror) and decided to grill it on a cedar plank.
First things first. You need cedar planks. A couple years ago we spotted a batch of cedar planks treated for cooking at Costco, picked them up on a lark and they got stuck in the pantry and forgotten. You need to soak the planks in water. A minimum of 20 minutes according to the directions, but for cooking a fish of this size that was actually too short. Properly used the cedar planks are reusable. Sadly while they cooked the fish properly, these planks were too burnt to be reused. We have more, though.
So figure on soaking the plank(s) you use in water for a good hour, at least.
SEcond, we mixed whole white and green peppercorns, fennel seeds, coriander seeds and cumin seeds and roasted them in a small skillet until they were good and aromatic. Then we ground them up in the mill. The salmon side was cut in half, liberally salted and then coated in the spice mix. The fillets were then put on the bbq grill on low for what turned out to be about 25 minutes.
These were deLICious. I should've taken a picture of them for this, but alas, I did not.
I'd say that we got about 4 pounds of salmon out of this side of it, and the 8 (5 adults, 3 kids) of us devoured those 4 pounds and there's roughly 1 serving of the fish left. We served them simply with some garlic mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli. My tummy is very happy.
In any case, I brought home a cleaned 11 pound salmon. Andrew filleted it, which is good because I'm terrible at deboning fish. So this was a bit of a tough part. That said, I can get filleted salmon if I want, but not for $2.99/lb for a fish of this quality.
We took one side of the fish (the other is in the refrigerator, awaiting another terror) and decided to grill it on a cedar plank.
First things first. You need cedar planks. A couple years ago we spotted a batch of cedar planks treated for cooking at Costco, picked them up on a lark and they got stuck in the pantry and forgotten. You need to soak the planks in water. A minimum of 20 minutes according to the directions, but for cooking a fish of this size that was actually too short. Properly used the cedar planks are reusable. Sadly while they cooked the fish properly, these planks were too burnt to be reused. We have more, though.
So figure on soaking the plank(s) you use in water for a good hour, at least.
SEcond, we mixed whole white and green peppercorns, fennel seeds, coriander seeds and cumin seeds and roasted them in a small skillet until they were good and aromatic. Then we ground them up in the mill. The salmon side was cut in half, liberally salted and then coated in the spice mix. The fillets were then put on the bbq grill on low for what turned out to be about 25 minutes.
These were deLICious. I should've taken a picture of them for this, but alas, I did not.
I'd say that we got about 4 pounds of salmon out of this side of it, and the 8 (5 adults, 3 kids) of us devoured those 4 pounds and there's roughly 1 serving of the fish left. We served them simply with some garlic mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli. My tummy is very happy.
