Oklahoma Joe’s introduces smoked salmon salad today

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Oklahoma Joe’s is hoping that its latest menu item has legs, even if the featured ingredient is not one of the usual four-legged suspects. The barbecue joint known for its facility with meat is taking on the sea with a new smoked salmon salad that debuts today.

“Fish is not part of the barbecue canon,” says Oklahoma Joe’s Director of Marketing Doug Worgul. “But I always say that [co-owner] Jeff [Stehney] is very much an innovative traditionalist.”

The salmon, imported from Chile, is cured for 36 hours before a housemade dry rub is applied. It then marinates for 72 hours before being finished in the smoker.

“Curing and rubbing and smoking. It’s the same process we use for meat,” Worgul says. “This is Joe’s Kansas City Smoked Salmon prepared in the Kansas City tradition.”