Salmon Brochettes - Cooked

I posted a post on Salmon Brochettes - The Raw a few weeks ago because I forgot to take pictures of it after it's done. Well, i made them again for a birthday and this time i didn't forget :) Here they are!

Salmon Brochettes

They look like chicken/beef/lamb brochettes but really, it looks that way because I wrapped smoked bacon around them, hence ensuring that each and every piece of fish absorbs the smokiness of the bacon. Oh and since bacon is quite fat, it also ensures that the salmon is moist when cooked. So what you have is a taste almost like smoked salmon but moister.

Here's the recipe. It's relatively simple too and you can make this way in advance before a dinner party or something :)

Ingredients

For the fish marinate:
1 tbsp of grated ginger
2 cloves of grated garlic
1/4 cup of soy sauce
3 tablespoon of honey
1/2 teaspoon pepper

500 g of Salmon fillet, clean and cut into 1 inch chunks
10 strips of bacon or more
1 onion, quartered

bamboo skewers soaked in water for 30 minutes


Method

1. Combine the ingredients for the fish marinate together. Stir well and set aside.
2. Make sure that your salmon cubes are dry off excess water. It helps to marinate better. Put the pieces into a container.
3. Pour the fish marinate into the salmon cubes and make sure the marinate covers every bit of the pieces. Cover and marinate for 2 hours at least.
4. Take your bamboo skewers and skewer a cube of salmon and alternate with a little bit of onion, and continue until you reach the tip of the skewer.
5. take a slice of bacon and drape it around the skewered fish. Set aside and repeat step 4 and 5 till you're out of fish.
6. Let the skewers sit in room temperature for about 30 minutes before you start baking them in the oven. Pre-heat oven to 400 Fahrenheit or 205 degrees. You can also barbeque this... it's prefect for bbqs! But since it's winter where i am, i have to make do with an oven......pfft.
7. Put each skewer on a baking pan and bake for 45mins. Turn over the skewers once after 15 minutes. At the final 5 mins of the cooking time - turn the grill on and grill till the brochettes are a little brown.