Given how much I like eating smoked fish (or smoked anything, really), it's a wonder that I haven't previously tried hot smoking trout in the Weber kettle barbecue.
I think the reason was that the only curing recipe in the Weber official cookbook I have involved a dry cure in lots of salt. That always seemed to me to be unduly wasteful (even though salt is pretty cheap), and I have never given it a try.
But today, I googled around and found this American guy's* straight forward recipe, involving a salt and sugar curing brine, and gave it a try tonight on rainbow trout fillets. (Two trout, filleted, gives a satisfying one big smoked fillet per person.)
It worked a treat.
For my future reference:
One quart of water is close enough to 950 ml. The brine of 2 tablespoons of salt, and a 1/4 cup of brown sugar, worked fine. I had the fish in it for about 4 hours, but I suspect longer might have been better. (The saltiness was OK, but could have perhaps gone longer.)
For cooking - used about 22 pieces of charcoal (I think), and two good handfuls of soaked hickory chips. One handful still only smokes for about 15 minutes, so I put second handful on after that. Total cooking time was 45 minutes.
.* it seems he is particularly fond of pressure cookers, like I am, so I should read his site more.
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