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Swimming Upstream (salmon)

Finally got around to doing some salmon on the BGE - man this was good.  I basically followed the recipe here:


It looked really good to me and relatively easy.  You basically develop a glaze that's a mix of brown sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, and mustard.  Then you cook the salmon direct for about 8 minutes.  The only thing I changed up was that instead of S&P, I pasted the fish with some of DP's Raging River Rub.  I let the rub sit in a good half hour before putting the salmon on the grill.

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The recipe calls for direct cooking over medium heat (WTH - it's a BGE recipe - can't you say what your dome temp is???), so I set it up at 450 dome.  That might have been a bit hot, but these came out absolutely perfect so I can't complain.  The recipe also calls to flip them after about six minutes, but they were already a bit too flaky for me to do that, so I just left them on another two.  Here's the pic of them fresh off the BGE:

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I made some wasabi mashed potatoes to go with:

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These were great!  Super easy and just a little bit of heat.  Here's the plated pic:

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Definitely a must-do-again.  The salmon had just the right amount of flakiness to it, while still being very moist.  The glaze is just about perfect.  SWMBO (who doesn't like seafood) actually ate a serving of this, so that's a win.  

Not sure why it took me this long to cook salmon on the Egg.  It's a crowd-pleaser.  
"I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

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