Toast Skagen From Smorgasbord Food

TOAST SKAGEN

Steps:

• Stir together mayonnaise, creme fraiche, chopped dill, lemon juice, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl until well combined. Stir in shrimp.
• Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium-high heat, and saute half the bread triangles until golden brown and crisp. Transfer to a plate, and saute remaining bread in remaining tablespoon butter.
• Spoon a generous amount of shrimp mixture onto toasts. Top each toast with caviar, and garnish with dill sprigs. Serve with lemon wedges. Shrimp mixture can be refrigerated 1 day.

CLASSIC SWEDISH TOAST SKAGEN

Steps:

• Cut the crusts from the bread. Spread butter of both sides and fry the toast in a skillet over medium heat (or better yet, over a backyard grill) until toasted, flipping once. Remove from the pan and cut each piece in half diagonally.
• Gently fold together the baby shrimp, mayonnaise, sour cream, and chopped dill; spoon the mixture on the toast points.
• Top each toast with a teaspoon of salmon roe. Garnish with lemon slices and additional dill and serve.

TOAST SKAGEN FROM SMORGASBORD

Steps:

• Cut the shrimp into smaller pieces.
• In a medium-size bowl, mix together the dill, lemon juice, relish, and mayonnaise. Add the shrimp and gently mix together. Season with salt and pepper.
• In a large skillet, melt the butter, then fry the bread slices until they are a nice color on both sides. You can also toast the slices in a toaster and butter each of them.
• Arrange each toast on individual small plates. Divide the shrimp salad equally and spread it evenly on each toast. Top with the roe and garnish with a few sprigs of dill. Serve immediately.
• Recipe courtesy of SMORGASBORD by Johanna Kindvall.
• Get the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Smorgasbord-Swedish-Breads-Savory-Treats/dp/0399579095/.

TOAST SKAGEN - SWEDISH - PRAWN TOAST

Steps:

• Cut off the crusts of the bread slices.
• Saute the bread in a little butter until they are golden brown on both sides, drain on paper towels.
• If the shrimps are large, cut into smaller pieces.
• Save 4 sprigs of dill for garnish. Finely chop the rest of the dill and mix with the shrimp, mayonnaise and mustard.
• Divide the mixture into 4, and place on top of the bread slices.
• Shape the whitefish roe on top of each toast and garnish eash with a sprig of dill and serve with a wedge of lemon.

SMORGASBORD OR SMORREBROD (DENMARK)

Steps:

• Butter each slice of bread you want to use then proceed with ingredients for any one of the options below:.
• Salami and tomato - cover the bread with slices of salami. Add slices of tomato and some onion rings.
• Prawns and lemon - put a lettuce leaf onto the bread. Spoon prawns on top and add some black pepper and a twisted slice of lemon.
• Blue cheese and lettuce - cover the bread with lettuce and thin slices of blue cheese. Sprinkle cress on top.
• Cheese and tomato - lay thin slices of Havarti cheese on the bread. Then, lay a row of sliced tomato along the middle. Add a gherkin garnish.
• Smoked salmon and egg - cover the bread with slices of hard-boiled egg and smoked salmon. Sprinkle it with chopped dill.
• Lettuce, egg and herring - lay slices of hard-boiled egg and fillet of pickled herring on the bread. Sprinkle it with cress.
• Garnishes:.
• Cut a slice of lemon in half. Make a cut in the middle of each half, then twist the ends so that the slice stands up.
• Make thin cuts along the length of a gherkin, cutting almost to the end. Then, spread the slices out like a fan.