Smoked Salmon Spirals Food

SMOKED SALMON SPREAD

Steps:

• Cream the cheese in an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment until just smooth. Add the sour cream, lemon juice, dill, horseradish, salt, and pepper, and mix. Add the smoked salmon and mix well. Chill and serve with crudites or crackers.
• If you can find it, I prefer Norwegian salmon; it's drier and less salty than other smoked salmon.

SMOKED SALMON SPIRALS

Steps:

• Using vegetable peeler, cut off thin 8x1-inch strips down length of daikon.
• Mix cream cheese, dill, parsley, capers, mustard, lemon peel and pepper in small bowl. Spread about 1 1/2 teaspoons mixture on 1 side of each radish strip. Top with salmon. Roll up tightly. Arrange spiral side up on platter. Garnish with cucumber, dill and lemon.

SMOKED SALMON PINWHEELS

Steps:

• Combine the cream cheese, lemon juice, red onion, and basil in a bowl until completely blended.
• On a piece of waxed paper, arrange the smoked salmon slices in a rectangle about 3 inches wide and 12 inches long, slightly overlapping each piece. (If the salmon slices are cut irregularly, simply piece them together like a puzzle.)
• Spread a thin layer of the cream cheese mixture on the salmon, sprinkle with the capers, and roll up like a jellyroll.
• Refrigerate for 1 hour to firm, then cut into 1/2-inch slices. Place each pinwheel atop a cucumber round to serve.

SMOKED SALMON SPIRALS

Steps:

• Lay some plastic wrap on your work surface and arrange the salmon on top in a 12 x 8 inch rectangle.
• Mix cheese with dill and spread over salmon.
• Press row of capers into cheese along one long edge.
• Beginning at edge with capers, roll up jelly roll style to enclose capers in center.
• Wrap in plastic wrap, squeezing to form smooth cylinder, and twist ends closed.
• Freeze for at least 4 hours or up to 1 month.
• To serve, thaw roll for 10 minutes, slice thinly, and arrange on cucumber slices.
• Garnish with onion and dill.
• Let stand for 10 minutes at room temperature.

SMOKED SALMON SPIRALS

Steps:

• Beat together the cream cheese, lemon juice and rind, scallions, dill and paprika.
• Spread each tortilla with 1/8 of the cream cheese mixture, leaving a 1/4 inch margin.
• Cover the cream cheese with slices of salmon.
• Roll up the tortillas, pressing down hard as you roll.
• Wrap each tortilla in plastic wrap, like a Tootsie Roll (for the Americans) or like a Christmas cracker (for the Brits and Aussies).
• Chill at least 3 hours, but not longer than 12 or it tends to sog up.
• To serve, upwrap and slice the rolls about 1/2 inch thick.
• Eat all the uneven ends yourself, assuming the rest is for company.
• Arrange the slices on a serving dish and garnish with more of the dill.

SMOKED SALMON & CREAM CHEESE SWIRLS

Steps:

• Place a sheet of mountain bread on a chopping board.
• Spread cream cheese all over the bread.
• Cover the bread with finely sliced smoked salmon.
• Roll up tightly.
• Cut into 2 cm slices.
• Serve.

SMOKED SALMON, AVOCADO, AND HORSERADISH SPIRALS

Steps:

• In a small saucepan sprinkle the gelatin over the lemon juice, let it soften for 10 minutes, and heat the mixture over moderately low heat, stirring, until the gelatin is dissolved. In a food processor purée the avocado with the cream cheese, the horseradish, and the gelatin mixture until the mixture is smooth. Transfer the mixture to a bowl, set the bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water, and stir the mixture until it is thickened to the consistency of thick mayonnaise.
• Arrange the smoked salmon slices, overlapping them slightly, on a sheet of plastic wrap to form a 17- by 7-inch rectangle and spread them with the avocado mixture, leaving 1/2-inch border. Using the plastic wrap as an aid and beginning with a long side roll up the smoked salmon jelly-roll fashion, wrap it in the plastic wrap, and twist the ends of the plastic wrap closed. Chill the smoked salmon roll for 3 hours, or until it is frim and the filling is set.
• With a 1 1/2-inch round cutter cut out rounds from the pumpernickel, reserving the scraps for another use. Remove the plastic wrap from the salmon roll carefully on a cutting board and with and electric knife or other very sharp knife cut it crosswise int 1/4-inch slices. Arrange each salmon roll slice on a pumpernickel round and garnish each canapé with a parsley sprig and 2 short sections of chive. The canapés keep, covered tightly with plastic wrap and chilled, for 2 hours.

SMOKED SALMON ROTOLLOS

Steps:

• Mix the cream cheese with the lemon juice, chopped dill and plenty of black pepper. Spread over 4 large flour tortillas and cover with the smoked salmon. Roll up like a Swiss roll, trim off the ends and discard. Wrap tightly in cling film, twisting the ends firmly to enclose. Place in the fridge until you are ready to use. To serve, take a sharp knife and slice on the diagonal. Serve with extra dill and rocket leaves.