Mike's Smoked Wild Alaskan King Salmon Fillets & Grilled Asparagus
Mike's Smoked Wild Alaskan King Salmon Fillets & Grilled Asparagus

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mike's smoked wild alaskan king salmon fillets & grilled asparagus. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

For those in the know, there's a huge difference between grilling and BBQ'ing. Grilling is fast, high heat and, BBQ'ing is always a low, slow and steady heat. You can enjoy it plain, flake it into a smoked salmon salad, toss it with pasta, or pound it with butter to make salmon rillettes.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mike's smoked wild alaskan king salmon fillets & grilled asparagus using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's Smoked Wild Alaskan King Salmon Fillets & Grilled Asparagus:
  1. Make ready 2 (1 Pound) Alaskan King Salmon Filets
  2. Prepare 2 Bricks Hickory Wood
  3. Prepare 1 Cup Apple Wood Shavings
  4. Prepare 1 Cup Alder Wood Shavings
  5. Take to taste Sea Salt
  6. Prepare to taste Ground Sumac [a fantastic lemony flavored Cherokee herb for fish]
  7. Take to taste Lemon Pepper
  8. Prepare to taste Granulated Garlic
  9. Get as needed Olive Oil [+ reserves]
  10. Prepare as needed Fresh Dill
  11. Take as needed Lemon Slices
  12. Take as needed Fresh Asparagus [with olive oil & lemon pepper]
  13. Prepare as needed Shreaded Parmasean Cheese [for asparagus, if opted]
  14. Make ready 2 (8 oz) Packages Philadelphia Cream Cheese [optional]
  15. Prepare as needed Chilled Capers [optional]
  16. Prepare as needed Oversized Bagels [optional]
  17. Prepare as needed Chilled Chardonnay

Serve this smoky spread warmed or, chilled on toasted bagels with sides of fresh juicy fruit!. Smoked Wild Alaska salmon the old fashion way, using cherry wood smoke.not liquid smoke. There are five types of wild Alaskan salmon: king, coho, pink, chum, and sockeye. Here, we used sockeye salmon (also known as red salmon) for its deeply hued, rusty color, leanness, and pronounced flavor, which has a gamey quality that makes it a perfect pair for the savory notes smoking lends.

Steps to make Mike's Smoked Wild Alaskan King Salmon Fillets & Grilled Asparagus:
  1. Gather your woods and shavings.
  2. Place your woods and shavings in your smoker. Bring smoker up to 200°. Fill water reservoir 3/4 full. [not pictured but it sits directly underneath top grid]
  3. Rinse fillets and pat dry. Lightly coat both sides with olive oil. Check for any bones and pull of need be.
  4. Season your fillets to taste. Do not use fresh herbs to BBQ.Feel free to go heavy on the Sumac tho! Place salmon on a ventilated rack - skin side down. Do not use fresh herbs on anything BBQ/Grill style as they will only burn and wither quickly, Use only dried herbs when BBQ'ing/Smoking.
  5. Cover tightly and smoke for 1.5 hours. Monitor temperature to make sure she stays at a steady 200°.
  6. Check fish half way thru for doneness and re-seal smoker quickly. You don't want to flare your woods and burn them out. Look at her! Ain't she pretty?!
  7. Rinse asparagus and pat dry. Cut off the bottom 2" of stems. Coat asparagus with garlic olive oil and season with lemon pepper and parmasean cheese. Grill for 30 minutes at 250°. Longer of need be depending upon thickness.
  8. Serve smoked salmon with fresh lemon slices and fresh dill.
  9. Enjoy!
  10. Feel free to turn any salmon leftovers into an elegant salmon bagel spread!

Flake the fish on top of Caesar salads, add it to minestrone, use it in salmon salad sandwiches or. This SeaBear smoked wild salmon is fully cooked and ready-to-serve. Smoked and Fresh-frozen Coho(silver) fillets are still available. It's easy to remove the bones from our wild Alaska Salmon fillets. And it takes only a minute or two.

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