Red fish is tasty in any form. Many prefer to eat it smoked. Salmon cold smoked or hot smoked reveals itself well not only in fish cutting, but also in the composition of multi-component snacks. Smoked salmon salads are a relatively inexpensive treat that families with different incomes can afford. These dishes are so tasty and appetizing that they can be prepared for the holiday - guests will not be disappointed.
Cooking Features
The hostess, who does not have much culinary experience, can undertake the preparation of smoked salmon salads without any danger of spoiling the food: these snacks are prepared quite easily and quickly. Knowing some points allows you to get a guaranteed good result.
- On sale you can meet pink and hot smoked pink salmon. The taste of such fish is different, and if the recipe has an indication of what kind of smoked salmon should be used, it is better to listen to these recommendations. If there is no such indication, choose the fish that you like best.
- Most often, smoked fish has to be cleaned of bones and skins. Pink salmon is easily finished. First you need to cut the long sharp bones, then pull out smaller ones with tweezers, after which it remains to separate the fillets from the skin, keeping the knife almost flat and tightly pressing it against the fish's skin.
- When buying smoked fish, pay attention to the composition: the more preservatives, colors, flavors used for cooking, the more harmful the product. If you have the opportunity to cook pink salmon, do not miss it.
- Smoked pink salmon has a salty taste, so salt should be added to the salad as little as possible or should be abandoned altogether.
- Smoked salmon puff salads make sense to cook in advance: soaked with sauce, the layers become tastier. Ordinary salads are recommended to be filled as close as possible to serving, as foods mixed with mayonnaise deteriorate quickly.
- Do not overcook eggs that are used to make salad, especially if their yolks are planned to be used to decorate a dish: they are covered with greyish bloom during long cooking.
Smoked pink salmon goes well with potatoes, cheese, eggs, cucumbers, green and onions, rice, various seafood. A bad idea would be to add meat and sausages to the salad. There are a lot of variants of smoked salmon salads, and the cooking technology may vary slightly depending on the selected recipe.
Hot smoked salmon salad with apple and cheese
Composition:
- hot-smoked pink salmon - 0, 25 kg;
- cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- apple - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 75 g;
- green onions - 50 g;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- wheat crackers - 80 g.
Method of preparation:
- Apple peel off the skin, cut the core, coarsely rub the pulp, mix with lemon juice so that it does not darken.
- Clean the humpback salmon and bones, finely chop, put on a dish, giving any shape.
- Cut onions into thin half rings.
- Smear salmon with mayonnaise, sprinkle with onions, cover with sauce and it.
- Put the shredded apples, pre-discharge the juice that has come out of them.
- Put the salad in the fridge for half an hour.
- Cut the cheese into medium-sized plates.
- Chop the green onions.
- Spread the cheese on the lettuce surface, sprinkle with green onions.
- Sprinkle the salad with croutons, lay them around it.
The amount of mayonnaise that is part of the salad can be reduced by only letting it miss the fish layer, or replace it with sour cream. The snack is nourishing, but not too high in calories. This recipe will appeal to those who love to eat tasty, but does not want to gain extra weight.
Cold smoked salmon salad with cheese and tomatoes
Composition:
- pink smoked pink salmon - 0, 25 kg;
- cherry tomatoes or regular - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- hard cheese - 120 g;
- sour cream - 150 ml;
- green onions - 50 g.
Method of preparation:
- Humpback salmon, peeled from the skins and bones, finely chopped.
- Chop hard boiled eggs on a grater.
- Rub the cheese.
- Chop the green onions.
- Inside the culinary hoop lay out a layer of fish, smear it with sour cream.
- Place the eggs on the fish, spread them with sour cream.
- Cover with cheese, brush with sour cream and it.
- Cut the tomatoes into slices or large cubes, lay them on the surface of the snack.
- After placing the sour cream in a culinary bag, pour tomatoes to it.
- Sprinkle with chopped onions.
Salad looks fresh and tasty, has a pleasant taste. Before serving, it is enough to remove the cooking hoop - the snack does not need additional decoration.
Smoked Hunchback Salad with Potatoes
Composition:
- pink smoked pink salmon - 0, 25 kg;
- potatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- carrots - 150 g;
- chicken egg - 5 pcs .;
- onions - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- mayonnaise, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil eggs. Cool it, placing under a stream of cold water, clean. Grind whites and yolks separately.
- Peel the onions, cut into cubes, fry until golden brown.
- Boil carrots and potatoes in uniform, wait for them to cool.
- Peel the vegetables, separately coarsely rub.
- Cut the pink salmon into fillets, cut into small cubes.
- Lay the products in layers in the following sequence: potatoes, pink, onions, egg whites, carrots, egg yolks. All layers, except the last, promacite mayonnaise.
It is not necessary to make a salad according to this recipe puff. In this case, eggs and vegetables can not be rubbed, and cut into small cubes.
Smoked pink salmon salad with noodles and avocado
Composition:
- vermicelli - 0, 2 kg;
- avocados - 0, 3 kg;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- smoked pink salmon - 150 g;
- pitted olives - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 80 ml;
- lemon juice - 60 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- lettuce leaves - for decoration.
Method of preparation:
- In the boiling salted water, lower the noodles, after 2-3 minutes, drain in a colander, rinse, put into a bowl. Pour in a spoonful of oil, mix.
- Cut the smoked salmon fillet into small pieces.
- Cut tomatoes into slices or cubes.
- Cut the olives into 4 pieces.
- Cut the avocado into cubes.
- In a bowl, combine vermicelli, tomatoes, avocados, olives and smoked fish. Pour over the remaining oil and lemon juice. Stir gently.
- Put lettuce leaves on a dish, put a snack on them in a slide.
Salad prepared according to this recipe can be served both cold and warm. Hot smoked humpback salmon for this snack fits better than a cold one, especially if you intend to serve it warm.
How to decorate a salad
Decorations of salmon salad salads depend on the type of snack (layered salad or not) and on the reason for which it is prepared.
- Layered salad can be made to look like a cake. To do this, use a detachable baking dish or special hoops, often equipped with a press for easy removal from the finished snack. Products are laid out inside the form, and after its removal the salad has an even and neat appearance. It remains to sprinkle it with chopped cheese, carrots, eggs or other products specified in a particular recipe, and decorate with figures laid out from chopped olives, pepper or other ingredients. Many decorate such salads with flowers from smoked salmon, carrots, tomatoes, eggs.
- The figures and flowers of vegetables and salmon can also be decorated with salads placed in a salad bowl, laid out on bowls. For decoration use only those products that are part of the snack. The exception is greens, which is appropriate in any case.
- Smoked salmon salad can be laid out on an oval dish, giving it fish shape. The role of scales can perform sliced cucumbers, boiled carrots, as well as onion half rings. Olives and chicken protein are most often used to image fish eyes. The tail can be cut from carrots or made from fresh greens.
Salad of pink salmon can be laid out in the form of other figures and objects, which are the symbol of the holiday, on the occasion of which the table is laid.
Smoked salmon salad is not the most expensive, but always beautiful-looking and palatable snack. Whatever recipe you choose, you will not have to spend a lot of time and energy on cooking, and the result will meet the expectations.
