Wood-Grilled Salmon with Hoisin and Five-Spice Powder

Name: Wood-Grilled Salmon with Hoisin and Five-Spice Powder
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 teaspoons, sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, five-spice powder; 1/4 teaspoon, cayenne pepper; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 1/4 teaspoon, pepper; 4 , skin-on salmon fillets (each 6 to 8 ounces and 1 1/4 inches thick); 2 tablespoons, hoisin sauce; 2 cups, wood chips, soaked for 15 minutes

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2008

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

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To create the same 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 ...

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