Wood-Grilled Salmon

Name: Wood-Grilled Salmon
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 teaspoons, sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 1/4 teaspoon, pepper; 4 , skin-on salmon fillets (each 6 to 8 ounces and 1 1/4 inches thick); 1 tablespoon, olive oil; 2 cups, wood chips, soaked for 15 minutes

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2008, America's Test Kitchen TV

Salmon grilled directly on a cedar plank is a Northwest favorite that was invented by the Native Americans of that region. But can you enjoy wood-perfumed grilled salmon without the cedar plank?

SERVES4

TIME1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To create the flavor of cedar planks in our Wood-Grilled Salmon, we settled on wood chips (available in most hardware stores) and made individual aluminum foil trays to hold the chips and salmon. To prevent the salmon from sticking to the w...

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