Smoked Salt Cured Lox

Steps

• 1

  Mix together salt, sugar, black pepper, lemon zest, orange zest, and dill.

  Ingredients

  • 1 Cup kosher salt

  • 1 Cup Sugar

  • 1 Tablespoon cracked black pepper

  • 1 Whole lemon zest

  • 1 Whole orange zest

  • 1 Whole Packaged Dill, roughly chopped including stems

• 2

  Slice salmon in half. Coat all flesh of salmon completely with salt sugar mixture. Sandwich the 2 pieces together, flesh to flesh and completely cover with salt sugar mixture.

  Ingredients

  • 2 Pound salmon fillet, skin-on

• 3

  Wrap tightly with plastic wrap and place into a gallon zip top bag. Squeeze out as much air as possible. Place wrapped salmon into a baking dish and place something heavy on top like a pot filled with water or a brick wrapped in foil. Place into the refrigerator for 10 hours. After 10 hours, flip over and put the weight back on top. Refrigerate for another 10 hours.

• 4

  Remove from refrigerator, unwrap and rinse of remaining salt with cold water. Pat dry and leave on counter for 1 hour.

• 5

  When ready to cook, set grill temperature to 180℉ and preheat, lid closed for 15 minutes.

• 6

  Place salmon onto a baking pan. Fill another baking pan with ice and place baking pan with salmon over ice.

• 7

  Place onto grill and smoke for 30 minutes. Remove from grill and slice thin.

  180 ˚F / 82 ˚C

• 8

  Serve with bagels, cream cheese, capers, dill, lemon wedges, sliced tomatoes, and red onion. Enjoy!