Ingredients:
- Bangus (259 grams in size or more)
Marinating solution:
- 80° Salometer brine (composed of 267.03 grams of salt per liter of water)
- 250 g Brown sugar
- 6 pcs Bay leaves
- Nutmeg
- Black pepper
- Prague powder
- Paprika
Procedure
- Wash milkfish then split. Remove all internal organs and false kidney. Debone.
- Simmer the marinating solution for one hour then cool. Bring the volume to one liter.
- Soak the fish in the cool marinating solution for 30 minutes to one hour depending on size.
- Store in a chill room overnight for slow curing or at room temperature until flesh is translucent.
- Remove from the solution and wash surface to remove excess salt. Do not soak.
- Spread on trays and surfs. In the meantime, kindle smoke house.
- Smoke until golden brown.
- Cool before packing in boxes.
- Keep refrigerated if packed in plastic bags.
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source: DA, Agricultural Training Institute, photo from flickr.com
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can u simplify this “80° Salometer brine (composed of 267.03 grams of salt per liter of water)”
how many cups of water against SALT..? so many would understand instead of using this term SALOMETER… gusto ko sana mag try but di ko makuha ang tamang mixture ng brine.
Maybe that means 80 ppt or parts per thousand as a measure of brine solution.
It is measured by the use of refractometer where you simply put a drop or two of the solution in the optical face of the refractometer, view it towards the light (as you do with a telescope) and you can see the scale value.
Sometimes the refractometer also scale the salinity reading in percentage. so that 80 ppt would be 8 percent salt.
Refractometer may cost nowadays more than P6,000.
Common rock salt (those ones that comes in coarse grain commonly used in brine freezer) may come in different purity. that means the amount you put in water may differ in terms of raising the salinity if they comes from different supplier.
One gram of rock salt added to 1 liter of water will raise the salinity to almost 1 ppt. As I’ve said some may be 70% effective others may be higher tahn 80% or might be as high as 95%
So to make a brine solution of 1 liter water you will need 80 grams of rock salt.. and if its only 80% pure you will need 100 grams of rock salt to 1 liter of water to make a brine solution of 80 ppt.
@jundD, thanks for the valuable inputs.
i just want to clarify what you mean by 80degree salometer brine thnks
It’s SALINOMETER of REFRACTOMETER.. and the measurement is express in Parts Per Thousand (PPT) or Percent.
what kind of smoker and wood do you use for smoking bangus? where do i get them? is “kusot” safe to use for smoking food? i also want to smoke ham and bacon at home using our garden griller – but i don’t know where to find those smoking wood chips they use like hickory. do we have alternatives here? i am in lipa batangas by the way. thanks a lot!
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