Smoked Salmon Canapes With Tarragon Food

SMOKED SALMON CANAPES

Steps:

• Stir onion, capers, dill, lemon juice, and Dijon mustard together in a small bowl to make relish. Season with salt and pepper.
• Cut sourdough baguette into 24 thin slices. Cut salmon into 24 pieces. Spread cream cheese on each slice of bread, add 1 piece of salmon, and top carefully with relish. Place on a serving dish.

SMOKED SALMON CANAPES WITH TARRAGON

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine cream cheese, tarragon, and lemon zest and juice; season mixture with salt and pepper.
• Dividing evenly, spread bread with cream cheese mixture (about 1 teaspoon per slice). Top with smoked salmon, and garnish with tarragon leaves.

GRILLED SALMON STEAKS WITH TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Start a grill or preheat broiler.
• Brush both sides of salmon with lemon juice.
• Grill for 5 to 6 minutes per side, turning once, until salmon flakes when prodded with the tines of a fork.
• Meanwhile, in a bowl, combine shallots, tarragon, yogurt, tomato, and parsley.
• Mix well.
• When salmon steaks are done, arrange on dinner plates and spoon some of the tarragon sauce alongside.
• Exchanges Per Serving: 4 Lean Protein, 1/2 Carbohydrate (Skim Milk).
• Nutrition Facts: 240 calories (34% calories from fat), 31 g protein, 9 g total fat (1.4 g saturated fat), 7 g carbohydrates, trace dietary fiber, 77 mg cholesterol, 110 mg sodium.

HOT-SMOKED SALMON WITH TARRAGON CRèME FRAîCHE

Steps:

• Pat salmon dry, then generously coat skin and wire rack with nonstick spray. Place salmon, skin side down, on rack and set inside a rimmed baking sheet; season salmon flesh well with salt. Chill, uncovered, 3 hours.
• Whisk shallot, crème fraîche, tarragon, and lemon zest in a small bowl to combine; taste and season with salt. Cover and chill.
• Crumple 2 large sheets of heavy-duty foil to form two 4"-diameter balls. Heat skillet over medium-high, 6 minutes. Spread 2 cups wood chips in center of skillet and let char until partially blackened and smoking, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle coriander seeds, peppercorns, dill seeds, and celery seeds over chips. Carefully set rack with salmon in skillet over chips. Set foil balls on either side of fillet and push 3 skewers vertically into fillet along the bloodline about 1" deep and 3" apart. Loosely cover skillet with foil, using foil balls and skewers as support so there is space for smoke to circulate around the fish.
• Reduce heat to medium and smoke salmon 8 minutes, then reduce heat to lowest setting and cook until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of fillet registers 120°F, 10-15 minutes. Transfer rack with salmon back to baking sheet and let cool 30 minutes.
• Serve salmon at room temperature with tarragon crème fraîche, bagels, capers, avocados, cucumbers, watercress, and scallions alongside.

SMOKED SALMON RILLETTES ON TORTILLA WAFERS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F. Using 2-inch-diameter cookie cutter, cut out 8 rounds from each tortilla. Place rounds on heavy large baking sheet. Brush both sides of tortilla rounds with olive oil. Bake until rounds are golden and crisp, about 9 minutes. Set tortilla wafers aside.
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Sprinkle 3 tablespoons water over heavy rimmed baking sheet. Place salmon fillet, skin side down, on baking sheet. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake until salmon is opaque in center, about 15 minutes. Cool completely. Remove skin from salmon. Coarsely flake salmon into large bowl.
• Combine flaked salmon, smoked salmon, crème fraîche, and butter in food processor. Using on/off turns, blend ingredients just until coarse paste forms (do not overprocess).
• Transfer salmon mixture to medium bowl. Stir in tarragon, lemon juice, and lemon peel. Season rillettes to taste with salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours. (Can be made 2 days ahead. Store wafers airtight at room temperature. Keep rillettes refrigerated.)
• Spread rillettes over tortilla wafers. Arrange wafers on platter. Sprinkle with chives and serve.

SMOKED SALMON CANAPES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine cream cheese and dill. Spread on rye bread. Top with salmon and red onion. Garnish with dill sprigs if desired.

SMOKED SALMON CANAPES

Steps:

• With a vegetable peeler remove and discard a long strip of the green outer peel.
• On the same side continue to pare long thin strips edged in dark green until you reach the seedy portion (You should get about 3 strips). Rotate the cuke a quarter turn and continue paring.
• You will need 3 dozen strips Bring a saucepan of water to a boil and add strips and blanch for 5 SECONDS Refresh in cold water and dry on paper towels.
• Blend together the cream cheese, smoked salmon and horseradish.
• (You can do the strips and mix the salmon/ cheese the day before you are serving, store in the fridge) Shortly before serving spread the cheese/salmon mixture on the pumpernickel rounds, Drape a cuke strips on each and top with a small dollop of caviar.
• Garnish the serving platter with parsley or dill.

SMOKED SALMON MOUSSE CANAPéS RECIPE - (4.1/5)

Steps:

• Place salmon in a food processor; pulse until finely chopped. Add cream cheese and next 4 ingredients, and process until creamy and fluffy. Add tarragon; pulse until evenly combined. Taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary. (Note: Add more half-and-half if necessary to achieve the desired texture for piping.) Pipe or dollop about 1 tablespoon salmon mousse onto each cucumber slice. Garnish, if desired.