Hot smoked fish in a smokehouse at home

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary ingredients for smoking fish. Any fish can be used. I'm going to cook mackerel. It is very well suited for smoking.

2. Step 2:

   

   The first step is to prepare a marinade for the fish. To do this, pour water into a saucepan and put it on fire.Add the necessary amount of salt and a broken bay leaf to the water. Garlic cloves cut into pieces and also add to the pan. As a spice, you can take black pepper peas. Bring everything to a boil. Then cool the marinade to room temperature.

3. Step 3:

   

   Prepare the fish. It must be cleaned of the insides, then rinsed well in running water.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the prepared fish in a spacious bowl and pour the cooled marinade. The fish must be completely immersed in it. To do this, put something heavy on the fish. In this form, leave the fish for 6-8 hours.

5. Step 5:

   

   After the specified time, drain all the water from the fish. Pierce the fish itself and string it on a rope.

7. Step 6:

   

   Hang the fish to dry for 18-24 hours. During this time, excess moisture will leave the fish and it will be ready for smoking.

8. Step 7:

   

   Before smoking, put some dill inside the fish. If desired, you can also add black currant leaves for flavor.

9. Step 8:

   

   Wrap each fish with a layer of gauze. Why wrap it in gauze? This is necessary in order to get less smoke on the fish. Otherwise, it can be bitter. And the aroma of smoking itself will pass through the gauze. Put the wrapped fish on the grill and put it in the smokehouse. Sprinkle alder sawdust on the bottom of the smokehouse and cook the fish in a closed smokehouse for 25 minutes. Then remove the smokehouse from the heat and without opening it, let it stand for another 10 minutes.

10. Step 9:

    

    Then remove the fish from the smokehouse, cool it a little and remove the gauze from it.

11. Step 10:

    

    Smoked fish is very tasty both hot and cold. It is enough just to boil potatoes and cut fresh vegetables. Very tasty! Bon appetit!