Mistresses always have many signature recipes in their kitchen, which are prepared from year to year. But periodically, each of them tries to diversify the menu for the holiday with a new twist that can pleasantly surprise both households and guests at home. Hot and cold smoked salmon salads are very easy to prepare dishes with an unusual and refined taste.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
Smoked pink salmon is delicious in combination with many ingredients. Among them, the most popular are potatoes, cucumbers, rice, eggs, feta cheese, apples. This makes hot and cold smoked salmon salads inexpensive, quick to prepare and very tasty delicacy dishes, which can successfully fit into both the festive and daily menus. All products must be thoroughly washed, peeled vegetables, and some ingredients must undergo heat treatment, according to the recipe.
Did you know? 100 g of pink salmon meat contains a third of the daily norm of iodine necessary for a person, and two daily norms of cobalt, which is involved in the production of thyroid hormones. 150 g of pink salmon per day stabilize the hormonal background of a woman twice a week.
Smoked Salmon Salad Recipes
Pink salmon is an affordable and delicious fish species. There are many recipes where its meat is used as the main ingredient. These dishes include, first of all, salads.
Hot smoked pink salmon with potatoes and fresh cucumber
6 30 minutes
pickled cucumbers (fresh)
2 pcs.
Nutritional value per 100 g:
Dice potatoes. Chop cucumbers of the same shape.
Peel and dice the eggs.
Chop the onions into thin half rings. Separate the flesh of smoked fish and cut into small pieces. Mix all the ingredients.
Prepare dressing from olive oil, mayonnaise, mustard, pepper.
Add dressing to chopped foods and mix. Bring the dish to taste with salt, pepper and spices. Garnish the salad with herbs.
Dice potatoes. Chop cucumbers of the same shape.
Peel and dice the eggs.
Chop the onions into thin half rings. Separate the flesh of smoked fish and cut into small pieces. Mix all the ingredients.
Prepare dressing from olive oil, mayonnaise, mustard, pepper.
Add dressing to chopped foods and mix. Bring the dish to taste with salt, pepper and spices. Garnish the salad with herbs.Video recipe
It is not at all difficult to make such an appetizer, because its technique is simple and the products are available. It will take a minimum of effort and time to bring each of the main ingredients to the state necessary for use.
With rice and egg
650 minutes
pitted olives
150 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cook rice, leave to cool.
- Cut the fish fillet into strips.
- Chop the onion.
- On a dish lay layers of fish pre-mixed with onions, grated cheese, chopped yolk, and at the end - rice mixed with egg whites.
- Cover each bowl of products with mayonnaise.
- Garnish with olives and red pepper on top.
Important! This salad can be laid out in the form of a “penguin” and included in the menu of the children's holiday, using olives to represent the head, wings and tail, and red pepper - legs and beak. You can also replace fish with chicken, rice with mushrooms, and olives with Hungarian plums.
With cold smoked pink salmon, feta cheese and apple
630 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- To clean the fish from skins, bones, cut it into small pieces and put on a dish.
- Peel the apple, grate it with a coarse grater, add lemon juice to it.
- Cut the onion into thin half rings.
- Put a layer of pink salmon on a dish and grease with mayonnaise.
- Cover with onion and add mayonnaise again.
- Put the apple mixture in the next layer, removing the resulting juice.
- Place the salad in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Cut the feta cheese into thin small plates.
- Chop greens of onions and parsley.
- Remove the salad from the refrigerator and cover it with a ball of feta cheese, garnish with greens.
- Sprinkle with crackers and put them on the edges of the salad.
Important! If you do not want to get involved in mayonnaise, you can only lubricate the fish layer with it or prepare a salad using sour cream. The dish will appeal to even those who follow their figure.
Salmon puff pastry salad
630 minutes
cold smoked salmon balyk
250 g
tomatoes (cherry or regular)
200 g
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut the fish meat into small pieces.
- Grate eggs and cheese separately on a coarse grater.
- Chop the onion.
- Take a special culinary hoop or other device of the desired shape and lay out a layer of chopped pink salmon inside.
- Grease the fish with sour cream.
- Next lay the egg layer and also cover with dressing.
- Slice the tomatoes and cover them with salad.
- Pour the layer with sour cream dressing and garnish with chopped onions.
- Before serving, you need to remove the culinary hoop.
Among the existing variety of salad recipes, it is sometimes very difficult to choose one and at the same time to be sure that the result will meet expectations. Hot and cold smoked pink salmon combined with many products is always a win-win. Dishes based on this fish have an original taste, they are nutritious and easy to prepare.
