Kevin's Cedar Plank Miso-Ginger Salmon

Kevin the Bacon took it to the great outdoors for this one — a salmon fillet smoked low and slow on a soaked cedar plank, basted in a miso-ginger butter that turns into something unreal.

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Ingredients

  • •1 cedar grilling plank
  • •1 salmon fillet
  • •½ stick salted butter
  • •1-2 tbsp miso paste
  • •1 tbsp bottled minced ginger
  • •Fresh lemon juice, to finish

Steps

  1. Soak the plank: Submerge the cedar plank in water for at least 45 minutes, or it'll burn too fast and you'll get little to no smoke.
    45:00
  2. Make the butter sauce: Melt the butter and whisk in the miso paste and bottled minced ginger.
  3. Load the plank: Set the salmon on the soaked plank and brush generously with the miso-ginger butter.
  4. Smoke on the grill: Close the lid and let it go — check around the 10-minute mark, since timing depends on your grill's heat and the fish's thickness.
    10:00
  5. Finish: Squeeze fresh lemon juice over the salmon right before serving.
Kevin's Tip: Once you close the lid, leave it — every peek lets out your smoke. Give it a full 10 minutes before you check.
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