STURGEON BRINE

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Categories     Sauce     Fish     Appetizer     Marinate     Fourth of July     Healthy

Yield 6 12 filets

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3 tablespoons salt
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
3 bay leaves
1 teaspoon crushed allspice
1/2 cup mixed color whole peppercorns
1 cup apple and 2 small cherry wood logs or medium branches
1 tablespoon honey
In a 1 to 1.5 quart pan, bring 1.5 cups of water, sugar, salt, ginger, bay leaves, and allspice to boiling over high heat. Stir until sugar dissolves completely. Let cool.
Soak wood chunks in warm water for about 1 hour.
Rinse fish fillet, pat dry, and lay flat with skin down in a rimmed pan about 12 by 15 inches. Pour brine over fish, cover pan tightly and chill for 24 hours. Occasionally spoon brine over fish.

Steps:

  • make sure to rinse fish and pat dry before brine

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