SMOKED SALMON TARTAR WITH AVOCADO AND CUCUMBER

SMOKED SALMON TARTAR WITH AVOCADO AND CUCUMBER

Yet another delicious recipe with smoked salmon and avocado. I love it! 

This recipe is from the Flemish TV channel; it also had fresh salmon but I did not have any at hand so I just made it with smoked salmon. I will explain as I made it. 

Ingredients  

1 thick slice of smoked salmon

2 fresh chives, chopped fine

Juice of half of a lime

Half a cucumber, peeled

Half a ripe avocado, peeled  

1 stick of fresh tarragon, chopped fine

Salt and pepper to your taste

1 chive for decoration

Method

1. I cubed the smoked salmon and put it in a bowl
2. After I peeled the cucumber, I cut it into 4 pieces lengthwise and cleaned the seeds. After this, I cubed the cucumber pieces.
3. Except for the avocado, I added all the ingredients in the bowl and mixed them carefully in order not to smash them.
4. I cubed the avocado as well and added it to the tartar mix in the bowl and mixed it gently and carefully with the rest. 
5. The tartar mix is ready. Now it is up to you to decorate and serve it :-)

Step 2 - cucumber

Step 1 & 4 - avocado and smoked salmon in cubes

Step 4 - tartar mix with smoked salmon, avocado and cucumber

Step 5 - shaping it baby

SMOKED SALMON TARTAR WITH AVOCADO AND CUCUMBER

SMOKED SALMON BONBONS WITH GOAT CHEESE, APPEL AND AVOCADO

SMOKED SALMON BONBONS WITH GOAT CHEESE, APPEL AND AVOCADO

I love smoked salmon, I love goat cheese and I love avocado. This starter is so easy to make yet so chic and impressive on the table! But most important of all, it is definitely delicious!

My recipe is based on a recipe I saw got on the Flemish TV channel. I explain it as I made it.

Ingredients (enough to fill 4 – 5 mini oven dishes as in the pic)

6 – 8 slices of smoked salmon

1 spoon of oil

Salt and pepper to your taste

For the filling

50 gr. Of goat cheese

Half of a ripe and soft avocado, peeled

Half of a green apple (like granny smith), peeled

1 spoon of lime juice

1 spoon of sour cream

2 fresh chives, chopped

2 leaves of dill, chopped

Extra kitchen material: mini oven dishes + stretch folio

Method

1. First I prepared the filling:  cut the avocado roughly in cubes, add the goat cheese and mix them well by smashing the avocado with the help of a fork
2. Cube the apple; add it into the avocado goat cheese mixture with the rest of the ingredients of the filling. Mix well and set aside.
3. Take the oven dishes and brush inside with the oil. Cut the stretch folio in squares which are big enough to come out of the oven dish. Lay the stretch folio in the oven dishes as in the picture.
4. Lay the slices of smoked salmon in the oven dish and make sure the inside part of the oven dish is covered with salmon. Make also sure that the salmon dangles out of the oven dish. For that, cut some pieces that are big enough to spill out of the oven dish in order to cover the inside walls of the oven dish (see the picture to understand where you have to get :))
5. Fill the salmon with the filling and cover the filling with the pieces of salmon that dangles out of the oven dish (see the pic)
6. Fold the edges of the cling film together, pull tight and fasten the plastic (see the pic)
7. Set it in the fridge for a few hours before serving so that the filling becomes firm. 

sliced smoked salmon

Cover the oven dish first with the stretch folio and then with the smoked salmon

chives, green apple and lime

fill the smoked salmon with the goat cheese, avocado filling

Cover the filling with the salmon dangling out of the oven dish

Fold the edges of the cling film together, pull tight and fasten the plastic

Set the bonbons in the fridge for a few hours

SMOKED SALMON BONBONS WITH GOAT CHEESE, APPEL AND AVOCADO

SMOKED SALMON BONBONS WITH GOAT CHEESE, APPEL AND AVOCADO

MARINATED MOZZARELLA BALLS

MARINATED MOZERELLA BALLS

Easy to make, delicious to eat :) 

I made those at the new years eve party that I held for the family. They all think it was delicious. 

I am not giving any measurements, you will have to experiment with the amounts in order to find the optimum taste according to your liking :-)

Ingredients

Mozzarella balls (see the pic for the approximate amount)

4 – 5 sun dried tomato

For the marinade

Extra virgin olive oil

Fresh rosemary

Fresh or dried thyme

Grain salt

Method

1. Except the sun dried tomatos I mixed all the ingredients and I let it rest in my refrigrator for a night, covered.
2. The next day, I boiled water and soaked the dried tomates in the water for about half an hour until the tomatos are really soft (I was busy with other stuff in the mean time so you can be done earlier if the tomatos are soft). I drained the tomatos and chopped them in small bits. I mixed the tomatos with the rest of the ingredients and marinated them for a few hours more until I served them. 

mozzarella balls marinated in fresh rosemary, dried thyme, extra virgin olive oil

MARINATED MOZERELLA BALLS