Print: Salmon Brine That's Oh-So-Fine

A salty-sweet salmon brine recipe that can be tweaked to your liking. We serve this salmon with a sour cream-dill-horseradish sauce on a sliced baguette. Our guests rave about how incredible it is. This recipe works well with halibut, too!

Prep

15 min

Cook

11 min

Servings

Difficulty

Medium

Ingredients

2 tablespoons whole black peppercorns
1 gallon water
1 cup kosher salt
1 cup brown sugar
0.5 cups honey
0.5 cups pure maple syrup
0.25 cups white sugar
2 jalapeño peppers , thinly sliced
6 cloves garlic , smashed
1 tablespoon onion powder

Instructions

1 Place peppercorns in a plastic bag and seal. Crush peppercorns on a work surface using a rolling pin.
2 Combine crushed peppercorns, water, salt, brown sugar, honey, maple syrup, white sugar, jalapeños, garlic, and onion powder in a large bowl. Stir until sugars and salt dissolve completely.

Nutrition per serving

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