Smoked salmon and cucumber salad {easy recipe}

This delicious smoked salmon and cucumber salad, with avocado and horseradish cream, is an easy to prepare cold starter. The smoked salmon is seasoned with Vodka and lime for an extra flavor boost. This dish is a great choice for Christmas, Easter, or a dinner party.

This is a delicious and surprisingly cold entrée. Smoked salmon, marinated in vodka with lime, fresh cucumber ribbons, and a creamy avocado paste combined with a zing in the horseradish cream. This will give you a taste explosion in your mouth!

Deconstructed smoked salman salad

This is a variation of the traditional smoked salmon salad. But then with a modern twist. The salmon salad tastes a bit salty, with a fresh flavor cucumber accent and a little spice. And then I forget to mention the Vodka tic. Because Vodka is a delicious combination with both salmon and cucumber.

And by draping the ingredients of this salmon salad in an elegant way on your plate (instead of putting everything together into a glass) you get an eye-catcher!

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• Smoked salmon: Choose salmon sliced in thin strips.Cut the smoked salmon smaller, when necessary to drape it around the plate.
• Vodka: an alcoholic drink that is slightly sweat due to the wheat (from which it's made). It combines wonderful with both the salmon and cucumber. If you're serving dinner to children you of course can't use Vodka. In that case omit the Vodka.
• Lime: is a great combination with smoked salmon because of it's acidity. In addition, it ensures that the avocado won't brown.
• Cucumber: the salty smoked salmon is in need of a fresh counterpart. And of course you can cut your cucumber small cubes, but making ribbons just looks quite a bit nicer. You can easily make cucumber ribbons by using a cheese slicer or potato/vegetable peeler.
• Avocado: with it's creamy flavor and green color it's delicious for this elegant plate.
• Sour cream: For both creams, use sour cream to enhance the creaminess.
• Horseradish: The horseradish gives a nice zing. I use prepared horseradish.
• Dill, capers, caper apples and radishes: the garnish. And with this garnish you can vary. But these garnish gives a nice color palette and beautiful structure.

🔪 How do you prepare smoked salmon and cucumber salad

Step 1 Marinate the smoked salmon. Slice the smoked salmon into small strips. Make a marinate with 6 tablespoons Vodka, the juice of ½ lime, and 1 teaspoon lime grate. Marinate the smoked salmon for about 15 minutes.

Step 2 prepare the horseradish cream. In a bowl mix, 3 tablespoons prepared horseradish with 2 tablespoons sour cream. Put it into a piping bag.

Step 3 prepare the avocado cream. Slice the avocado in half and remove the stone. Spoon the avocado flesh with a spoon out of the skin. Put in a blender and add 2 teaspoons lime juice and 3 tablespoons sour cream. Blend until smooth. Put into a piping bag.

Step 4 prepare the cucumber ribbons and make your plate. Wash the cucumber and put it in front of you. With a cheese slicer or vegetable peeler make thin strips of the cucumber. When you get to the seeds, you can't make any more strips (they will fall apart).

Take your plate and spread 3 strips of salmon over the plate in a crescent moon shape. In between drape the cucumber strings. That's the beginning of your smoked salmon and cucumber salad.

Grab your piping bag with avocado cream and make a few piles between the cucumber. Take the piping bag with horseradish cream and pipe a few nice tufts. Dress up your plate with capers and dill.

• If minors are eating with you? Don't marinate the smoked salmon (with the Vodka). Alcohol and kids are a no go.
• Marinate the salmon for 10 to 15 minutes in the Vodka but not longer. Otherwise, the Vodka will take over the salmon flavor. Therefore make sure you dry the smoked salmon after marinating.
• If you don't have horseradish, you can replace it with 2 teaspoons of Wasabi.
• The easiest way to prepare this dish is by putting the cream into a piping bag. But if you don't have one, use a teaspoon to place the cream on the plate.
• Any smoked salmon and cucumber leftovers? You can store it for up to 1 day in the refrigerator (covered with plastic foil). Or you can freeze it for up to 3 months in an airtight container.

• You can marinate the smoked salmon in the morning and dry it. Put it on a clean plate covered with plastic foil and store it in the refrigerator.
• The horseradish cream can be made in the morning and stored in the piping bag in the refrigerator.
• The cucumber ribbons can also be prepared a few hours in advance. Bundle them and wrap in some wetted kitchen paper towel and then wrapped in plastic foil and store them in the refrigerator.
• The avocado cream CAN'T be made in advance, because it will brown.
• When you've put everything on the plate, serve immediately. Because you work with smoked salmon keep everything as cool as possible.

Can you eat smoked salmon when pregnant?

Don't eat smoked salmon when pregnant. Because it's wrapped in plastic foil, so it can be stored longer, Listeria bacteria can be present, which is dangerous when pregnant.

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