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Forum Name: The Kitchen - Seafood Recipes
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Printed Date: 31 May 2026 at 5:53pm


Topic: Fresh leaves
Posted By: Phats
Subject: Fresh leaves
Date Posted: 17 May 2004 at 10:11pm

when your smoking fish can you use fresh leaves, say pohutakawa etc ? or do you really need to be using sawdust ?

i was thinking some good old manuka dust with a few leaves thrown in...would it be all good ?



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Replies:
Posted By: Barrie
Date Posted: 18 May 2004 at 6:30am
thats the way that my father use to do it but Im told that some "green" leaves may cause horrible tastes of worst.

Posted By: Mandy
Date Posted: 26 May 2004 at 11:35am
I sometimes cut a young branch of Tea Tree and put it on top of the saw dust. Particularly if I've not got much saw dust left

Posted By: The Dog
Date Posted: 26 May 2004 at 2:11pm
i have a few pieces of timber different flavours (tea tree,totara etc)and i just wip a few shavings off the required piece with my plane and throw them in no saw dust all good and you can mix the woods for different flavour too....

Posted By: empty
Date Posted: 26 May 2004 at 3:59pm
i heard if you put some pohutakawa leaves in the final stages of the smoke it makes the fish go nice golden brown

Posted By: Fishful Thinking
Date Posted: 26 May 2004 at 4:00pm
Try the dry flower heads off the Pohutekawa once they have droped the bloom and hardened up, loads of oils in the heads for a great flavour. Can also use ground pepper, cumin etc for an exotic spice up. Mix a bit in with the saw dust.  Good eating. F.T.

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