Dilly Cream Of Salmon Soup Food

SALMON AND DILL CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until crisp, then transfer to paper towels to drain. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons fat from saucepan, then add onion, celery, potatoes, salt, and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, 5 to 7 minutes. Stir in water and bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, until potatoes are almost tender, about 10 minutes.
• Add milk and simmer, uncovered, until potatoes are tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Stir in salmon, dill, and butter and simmer gently until salmon is just cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes. Serve sprinkled with bacon.

CREAM OF SALMON SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Lay puff pastry on a lightly floured surface and roll out with a rolling pin. Brush with egg yolk. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and press in firmly. Cut puff pastry first into squares, then into triangles, and place on a baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until triangles are puffed up and golden brown, about 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, melt butter in a pot over medium heat and cook onion until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add salmon and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in tomato paste and cook for 1 minute. Pour in fish stock and white wine. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Stir cornstarch and a little bit of water into a paste. Add to soup and bring to a boil. Cook until soup thickens, about 5 minutes. Puree soup with an immersion blender until smooth. Stir in cream and saffron. Season with salt and pepper.
• Garnish soup with dill and serve with puff pastry triangles.

SMOKED SALMON AND DILL SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large saucepan.
• Gently cook shallots in butter until soft.
• Stir in flour, then gradually add milk; bring to a boil; add stock and and cucumber.
• Simmer 10 minutes.
• Reserve several salmon bits for garnish and chop remaining salmon bits and add to stock mixture.
• Cook gently 2-3 minutes.
• In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, or a blender, process soup to a puree.
• Clean pan and return soup to pan; stir in chopped dill and half and half.
• Season with salt and pepper and gently reheat.
• Garnish with salmon bits. lemon pieces and dill sprigs.

CREAM OF SALMON SOUP

Steps:

• Heat water, potatoes, onions, salt, pepper and bay leaf to boiling in Dutch oven; reduce heat.
• Cover and simmer until potatoes are almost tender, about 10 minutes
• Stir in salmon. Cover and simmer until fish flakes easily with fork, about 5 minutes longer.
• Remove bay leaf.
• Stir 1/2 cup of the soup liquid into whipping cream. Gently stir cream mixture into the soup; heat through. Sprinkle with dill weed.
• Note: Maybe using 15 oz canned salmon, deboned and skinned, could be a substitute if fresh salmon is unavailable to you or cost prohibitive.

SMOKED SALMON AND CREAM CHEESE SOUP

Steps:

• Melt butter in med-size stock pot over med heat. Add onion + garlic & saute till onions are soft, 10-15 minutes.
• Stir in dill, Old Bay Seasoning, tomatoes & smoked salmon. Cook 3 minutes. Then add flour & cook 1 min more.
• Gradually stir in water & heat to a soft boil. Reduce heat & simmer uncovered over med-low heat for 20 minutes.
• Stir in spinach & simmer 5 more minutes.
• Stir in cream cheese (1 oz at a time) over low heat, allowing ea bit to melt into the soup.
• When all the cream cheese has been added & the soup is smooth, stir in the vodka & lemon juice. Taste for seasonings & serve immediately.
• NOTES: I entered this recipe as given to me & made a half recipe w/2 chgs in my trial version.
• I left out the vodka (none in the house!), subbed dry white wine & frankly doubt I will ever use the vodka. I pd homage to a DH pers pref & subbed diced broccoli florets for the spinach. I pd homage to 1 of my own by adding 4 oz baby shrimp.
• Pers pref are often at the heart of any success a recipe enjoys. I found this soup in need of salt, but DH did not. He found the lemon juice a bit excessive, but I did not. Bottom line is tasting for your pers pref is advised.

NORTHWEST SALMON CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, saute celery, onion, green pepper and garlic in butter until the vegetables are tender. Add broth, potatoes, carrots, salt, pepper and dill; bring to a boil. , Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 40 minutes or until the vegetables are nearly tender. Stir in the corn, cream and salmon. Simmer for 15 minutes or until heated through. If desired, garnish with bacon, chives and cracked black pepper.

DILLY CREAM OF SALMON SOUP

Steps:

• Peel and dice potatoes and onions 1/3-1/2" cubes.
• Carefully skin the salmon and cut into 1/2" wide strips; make one horizontal cut to halve strips then put salmon in fridge.
• In a stock pot add water, potatoes, onions and salt.
• Bring to a boil over moderate heat (might take awhile on an electric stove).
• Turn heat to low and simmer for an additional ten minutes (skim any foam).
• Finely chop dill
• Add half and half/cream and bring to boil over moderate heat.
• When slightly thickened, reduce to low heat.
• Add salmon and cook for 3 minutes on low heat.
• Add dill and stir.
• Add ground black pepper to taste then mix in 5 tbsp of softened butter and/or margarine (I like to use 2 tbsps butter and 3 margarine).
• Add mace if you have it, stir and cook for another 5 minutes.
• Taste the soup and if necessary, add salt.
• Done!