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Salmon Grilled in newspaper ready to serve with lemon slices on top

Whole salmon grilled in newspaper

The whole salmon grilled in newspaper in a fire pit. It's covered with aromatic herbs and lemons, lemongrass and spices, wrapped in newspaper. Chargrilled and embarrassingly burned outside and carefully steamed in its juices, subtly smoky, juicy, aromatic flesh of salmon inside! It is a complete hit! You going to cook fish this way all the time when you try it, trust me!
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Course: Main Dish
Keyword: Salmon grilled in newspaper
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 10 people

Ingredients

  • 1 6lb whole salmon (skin on)
  • 2 lemons
  • 2 strings lemongrass
  • 1 bunch tarragon
  • 1 bunch fresh corriander
  • 1 2cm fresh ginger root
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1 pinch pepper

Instructions

  • Prepare your fish (wash thoroughly under cold running water outside and inside (assuming guts are cleaned by fishermen)). Clean it off the scale. Dry with paper towel.
    Whole salmon fish descaled and gutted laying on baking paper
  • Prepare your aromatic ingredients.
  • Make the marinade.
    Marinade for grilled salmon in newspaper in blue bowl
  • Put a big double-folded piece of parchment paper on the table. Put herbs in a line to put the fish alongside them. Massage the fish with marinade inside and outside. Stuff the inside of the fish with herbs and pieces of lemons. Cover fish with lemon pieces first, then with herbs and making an envelope with the paper tie the fish.
    Whole salmon covered with sliced lemons and stuffed with fresh coriander laid out on parchment paper
  • Take the thick layer of newspaper put the fish inside and make another envelope. Put in a bucket of water fully covered for 5 min.
  • Chargrill the fish for 25 min on each side putting the fish directly on a charcoal that is white and ready for the grill. Use water to extinguish the fire while fish is grilling. If not putting fish directly on coal but on a grilling rack we recommend фвв 10 more min cooking time and make sure your heat under rack is really strong otherwise you might end up with the fish not fully cooked through.
    Grilled salmon in newspaper on coals in a fire pit
  • Bon Appétit!
    Salmon Grilled in newspaper ready to serve with lemon slices on top

Notes

If not putting fish directly in coal but on a grilling rack we recommend double cooking time and make sure your heat under rack is really strong otherwise you might end up with the fish not cooked throughly.
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