Recipe: Perfect Smoked Rainbow trout

Recipe: Perfect Smoked Rainbow trout Delicious, fresh and tasty.

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Season the trout fillets with salt, sugar, pepper, lemon zest, lime zest, gin.

Preheat outside barbecue (barbecue needs a lid) to medium high.

Spread the herb mix over both sides of each trout.

You can have Smoked Rainbow trout using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Smoked Rainbow trout

1. You need of brine.

2. It’s 2 cup of salt.

3. You need 1 cup of sugar.

4. Prepare 1 of water-about a gallon more for more than 5 fish.

5. It’s of For fish.

6. It’s 2 tbsp of butter.

7. Prepare 1 tbsp of black pepper.

8. You need 1 of lemon.

9. You need 2 cup of soaked cherry, apple, or walnut wood chips, not chunks.

10. Prepare 1 of charcoal, hardwood lump preferred.

11. It’s 1 tbsp of lemon zest.

12. It’s 1 bunch of rosemary- fresh sprigs preferred, or dried.

Stuff the cavities with the reserved parsley, dill, and lemon slices.

The rainbow trout is often referred to as finger trout or simply as trout.

In North America the migratory variety of the species is usually called steelhead trout or simply steelhead.

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Smoked Rainbow trout instructions

1. Mix water, sugar, and salt together in a large bowl. Add fish and let set in brine for 30-50 min..

2. Ready the smoker with charcoal and bring the temp up to about 190°F and not over 200 so the meat doesnt dry out..

3. Grate lemon being careful to rotate lemon as you zest so as to get just the skin and not the pith..

4. Mix lemon zest with butter and pepper and coat over the outside and inside of the fish..

5. Slice lemon in to slices and stuff lemon slices with rosemary sprigs into fish..

6. Once the smoker has reached correct temperature add a cup of the soaked wood chips directly on to the coals..

7. Right after you add your chips the fish is ready for smoking so place it on a rack in the smoker (or better yet prepare your fish on a smoker grate and just slide the grate back into the smoker) let sit in smoker for 30min opening only to add second cup of chips halfway through..

8. After 30 min or more importantly once the internal temp of the fish has reached 160°F internally remove fish and let sit for 5 min. Now enjoy smoked rainbow trout.

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Place the trout fillet in the smoker and cook until the internal temperature.

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.