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Step 2 Garlic Baked Copper River Red Salmon

Copper River Red Salmon are one of the healthiest foods harvested in Alaska. If you like fish and are lucky enough to land one of these, enjoy! These Reds are good even if it's half cooked using a rock on the bank of the river.

Recipe

INGREDIANTS

One Copper River Red Salmon, cleaned and fileted.
Garlic chunks and slices
Medium Onion, diced
Thyme
Garlic Powder
Seasoning Salt (optional)
Lemon and Pepper
Olive Oil

Preheat oven or a flat stovetop container with a cover (cover can be tinfoil). Place filets skin side down on a raised rack inside whatever oven container you use. Sprinkle garlic, onion and seasonings liberally across the top of the filets. Drip olive oil down the center of each filet. Close cover. Bake until done, check often. It takes about a half hour in my Camerons. Note: overcooked fish is dry and loses its flavor. Salmon changes color from a deep red to a lighter pink-orange when it's fully cooked, and it separates easily with a fork.

This fish melts in your mouth and there's never enough garlic for our tastes! Goes great with black bean salza and steamed rice.

Comments

[sthealthraider]

EEEEWW!! that egs?

[AlaskanTentLady]

Yes they are. Salmon eggs (or roe) are what our friend Amanda from San Franciso calls "brain food." She eats them raw and I tried one last august for the first time. The eggs explode like a juicy pomegrant (sp?) in your mouth, and are quite tasty after soaked in sea salt and marinated in salt water.

[noelle_tan]

Wow! That's a whole lotta eggs.

[AlaskanTentLady]

Yeah we just started saving a few this past summer, used to throw them all in the dog slops.  Too bad we can't sell them for caviar. :)

[achollowell]

I see in one of these pictures there is a fishing machine I havn`t see one in years there were some on the east coast where I live in north Carolina for catching herring in spring

[AlaskanTentLady]

Yes, that's a fishwheel. I actually looked up the history of it online a while back and found one account that claimed it was invented by the ancient Chinese and brought to Europe  first and then patented in the USA by two men from North Carolina. There was something about a second patent filed in Washington State so it may even be court record. This account says it was introduced to the Ahtna Indians by the white men who came up the Copper River in the 1870s.

I just got my first official permit to take fish from a wheel here.. I can get 500 a season for myself and my family. It's dangerous, and a lot of work when the river gets high, but not near as dangerous as dipnetting.