Apple Cider Glazed Salmon Recipes

Steps:

• To make the brine: In a saucepan, combine the brown sugar, salt, and apple juice and bring to a boil. Add the remaining brine ingredients, remove from the heat, and cool. This brine can be made 2 to 3 days in advance and kept in the refrigerator.
• Submerge the salmon fillets in the liquid brine for at least 6 hours or overnight, refrigerated. Remove the salmon from the brine and place, uncovered, on a wire rack set in a sheet pan. Refrigerate the fillets for at least 6 hours, or overnight, to dry them out. (A dry fillet will take on smoke quicker than a moist fillet)
• To smoke the salmon: In an outdoor grill, make a small fire using mesquite charcoal or briquettes. Once the fire has burned down to a hot bed of coals, after about 1 hour, place the soaked wood on the coals. Position the grate 8 to 12 inches above the smoking wood and place the salmon fillets on the grate.
• Cover the grill and shut any open-air vents. After 5 minutes, check the heat of the grill; large fillets will be cooked and smoked through in approximately 30 minutes if the heat is low, about 300 to 350 degrees F, while a hotter fire will cook the fillets in 15 to 20 minutes. Serve the salmon hot off the grill.

Steps:

• Combine brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, Dijon mustard, and pepper in a bowl for the marinade.
• Place salmon fillets into a shallow glass dish and pour 1/2 of the marinade over the fish. Reserve remaining marinade. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Preheat an outdoor grill for medium heat and lightly oil the grate. Discard marinade from the glass dish.
• Grill salmon, brushing with reserved marinade several times, until it flakes easily with a fork, 4 to 6 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°. Mix apples and onion in ungreased rectangular baking dish, 11x7x1 1/2 inches. Place fish, skin side down, on apple mixture. Mix mustard, honey and garlic salt. Spoon onto fish; spread evenly.
• Bake uncovered 20 to 25 minutes or until fish flakes easily with fork. Serve apple mixture with fish.