Smoked Salmon Jerky Recipe

This delicious Smoked Salmon Jerky Recipe features fresh Portland King Salmon that we smoke on premises at our store. Our delicious smoked salmon is available for purchase in store as well as online. We also sell the smoked salmon jerky featured in this recipe. If you’d like to make your own at home, please feel free to use our easily printable recipe. A delicious smoked jerky recipe you can enjoy for a snack anytime. All you’ll need is some salmon, a smoker and this great recipe.

Smoked Salmon Jerky

Treasures of the Sea

A delicious recipe for making your very own smoked salmon jerky at home. All you'll need is some salmon and a smoker to create your own jerky. A great and smoky treat you'll enjoy.

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 5 mins

Curing Time 12 hrs

Total Time 12 hrs 25 mins

Course Snack

Cuisine American, Mediterranean

Servings 10 people

Calories 251 kcal

Equipment

• Smoker

Ingredients

  

• 4 pounds Salmon cut into strips
• 1 cup Kosher salt
• 1 cup Brown sugar
• 1/2 cup Maple Syrup

Instructions

 

• Mix salt & sugar together. Dash a thin layer across the bottom of a lidded container. Arrange your salmon strips in one layer inside the container. Dust heavily with another layer of the mixture once inside the container.
• Cover the container and let this cure in the fridge for 12 hours. If you can, turn the container upside down once during this time, or mix the salmon pieces around, so you get a more even cure.
• Remove your salmon from the cure and quickly dunk it in a large bowl of ice water to rinse off excess cure. Pat the fish dry with paper towels and set on a rack over a baking sheet in the fridge overnight if possible, or in front of a fan or in a cool, shaded, breezy place for at least 1 hour. You want the surface of the salmon to get sticky-tacky, which will help smoke adhere to it.
• Fire up your smoker. I shoot for an internal temperature of about 200F. See the headnotes for your wood choices. Smoke you salmon for at least 3 hours, and as long as it takes to get dried, but still chewy. It normally takes me 5 hours. If you are using maple syrup, paint it on the fish every 30 minutes or so after 1 hour has elapsed.
• Once you have salmon jerky, put it back on the cooling rack to return to room temperature. It will keep in cool room temperature, i.e., 60F or below, for a long while, but I keep my jerky in small, vacuum sealed packets in the fridge until I need it. It should last like this for months.

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Notes

When done right, the finished product is chewy, a bit salty and a bit sweet.

We like it a lot as a trail snack, road trip food, or to eat while catching more salmon.You can play with things a bit, too. The initial amount of sugar in the cure is mostly to remove water from the fish, the same way salt does. Sugar mitigates the harshness of pure salt. But if you can’t have sugar at all in your diet, you can replace the sugar with more salt.

Keyword jerky, salmon, salmon jerky

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