Salmon Recipes and Cooking with Salmon

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I love cooking and eating salmon. I hope that the following recipes will show you just how nutritious, quick and easy it is to cook and eat salmon.

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Quick & Easy Salmon Pate
Send In Your Salmon Recipes
How To Buy Salmon

3 Quick & Easy Salmon Recipes For Parties
Salmon With Puy Lentils
Salmon Recipes

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Quick & Easy Salmon Pate

Great For Parties

For this salmon pate you can use either hot smoked salmon or a small tin of salmon. Personally I like to use hot smoked salmon as it has more depth of flavour.

Ingredients

1 pack of hot smoked salmon (around 150g) or 1 small tin red or pink salmon
2 tablespoons cream cheese
2 tablespoons mayonnaise or creme fraiche
Lemon Juice to taste
Salt & Pepper

If using tinned salmon, take out the skin and bones first.

Method

Reserve a little of the salmon and put to one side. Empty the rest into a small blender and blitz briefly. Add the cream cheese and creme fraiche (or mayo if using) and blitz again. Season with lemon juice and salt and pepper.

Mix in the reserved salmon and decant into a pretty serving dish. Decorate with a small sprig of parsley.

Serve with melba toast or crudites.

You can also make it with half and half may and creme fraiche.

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How To Buy Salmon

What To Look For When Buying Salmon

When buying Salmon a good way to tell if it's fresh is to press it with you finger, the flesh should spring back, not leave your fingerprint in it. It should smell of the sea, slightly of ozone and most definitely not of FISH. If you're looking at a whole salmon - take a good look at its eyes, they should be clear and bright, not sunken and cloudy. The gills should be a deep red colour and the skin shiny and slippery. When you pick up the fish it should feel firm, not floppy like some old rag doll.

Types of Salmon

Wild Salmon is the best and therefore usually the most expensive but don't let that put you off; once you've eaten wild Salmon the farmed Salmon pales in comparison. Wild Salmon tends to be a darker orangey pink colour, the reason being is that the natural diet of a Salmon includes crustaceans. When you pick up a whole wild Salmon you'll notice how firm and lean it is, like a torpedo, caused by the fish using its muscles to swim in the currents and tides of the rivers and seas.

Farm Raised Salmon is lighter pink in colour and more rounded and flabby, the only fighting it's done is for food amongst the other Salmon in the sometimes very crowded farm cages.

Did you know that sometimes the farmed Salmon colour is determined by the fish farmer? Depending what colour the farmer wants his Salmon to be he can literally order a colour from a chart and the feed manufacturer then calibrates the Salmon's diet accordingly and hey presto a 'painted by numbers' Salmon! (it's the same with battery egg production - but I'll save that for another day).

Farmed Organic Salmon is governed by strict guidelines set in place by Organic institutions such as The Soil Association. The fish is better looked after and the farms regularly inspected. Except for permitted antibiotics and pesticides the fish are largely left to naturally mature and being in larger cages they are a lot happier, healthier and fitter. The cages are also a lot further out to sea thus enabling fresh water to continually wash away the Salmon effluence and of course making far better living conditions for the fish.

Of course, it's not always that easy to source really good salmon but you can buy salmon online. I recommend Vital Choice. Vital Choice offers an expanding line of the best natural, organic and sustainable foods available including delicious, sustainable Wild Salmon.

3 Quick & Easy Salmon Recipes For Parties

Smoked Salmon Wheels - makes about 40

1 packet of puff pastry
1 pack of 250g (9oz) smoked salmon trimmings or slices
8 spring onions finely chopped.

Roll out the pastry and cut into 2 pieces to make it easier to work with. Place the smoked salmon all over the pastry and sprinkle with the chopped spring onions. Sprinkle with fresh ground black pepper. Starting from the long side roll up like a swiss roll. Using a sharp knife cut the rolls into fairly thin rounds of about 1/4" thick. Place onto greased baking trays and bake in a hot oven (200C) for around 15 - 20 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool before serving. They are also good for freezing, just thaw for around 3 hours. They'll also keep for about 1 week in an airtight container. This recipe is adapted from Mary Berry At Home

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Smoked Salmon Swizzles

1 packet smoked salmon
cocktail sticks
lemon juice
black pepper

Simply slice the smoked salmon into strips and slide onto the cocktail sticks in a concertina fashion. Sprinkle with fresh lemon juice and a grinding of black pepper.

Smoked Salmon Blini
1 pack smoked salmon
1 tub sour cream
fresh dill - chopped finely
1 packet of buckwheat blini
small jar of salmon roe

Cut the smoked salmon into small pieces. Warm the blini according to the packet instructions and place a scant teasp of sour cream onto each blini followed by a piece of smoked salmon, a little chopped dill and some salmon roe. This recipe is also adapted from Mary Berry

Salmon With Puy Lentils

Deelicious!

I made this simple summer lunch dish today and just had to share it with you.

Puy lentils are quick and easy to cook, look and taste great and what's more are really good for you, so coupled with the salmon you don't need to feel too guilty if end up eating lots of it.

For 4 people (easy to increase quantities)

4 x salmon fillets about 170g each, skinned
250g dried puy lentils, rinsed
Double the amount of vegetable stock to lentils. A simple way is to put the lentils in a pan and cover with water until the water reaches around 3/4" above the lentils (like cooking rice)
Extra Virgin olive oil
about 10 semi dried tomatoes in olive oil
100g soft cheese such as philidelphia (you could buy the one with garlic and herbs or chives) or feta cheese
chopped flat leaf parsley
grated zest of 1 lemon
lemon juice to taste
balsamic vinegar, coarse sea salt and black pepper all to taste.

It's difficult to give an exact measurement because it all depends on your individual likes, if you want to add more of anything just go ahead until it tastes how you want it.

Cook the lentils according to the packet, drain and pour over some olive oil, balsamic vinegar (try 2 tablespoons of vinegar to 4 tablespoons of olive oil at a time until you get to the right balance). Add the tomatoes, chopped, along with some of the oil they came in, the lentils can take quite a lot of salt and pepper so don't be frightened. Mix and taste, this is key, keep tasting until you get it right. Add the lemon zest and about 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Mash some of the cream cheese gently before stirring briefly into the puy lentils. Serve at room temperature.

Whilst the lentils are cooking, poach the salmon

Serve with a fresh green salad and a nice glass of chilled white wine.

You can also add crispy fried bacon bits (with the cooking fat), chopped fried onions or alternate the parsley with a little fresh thyme. Have a go experimenting yourself.

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Salmon Recipes and Cooking with Salmon

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Quick & Easy Salmon Pate

Great For Parties

Send In Your Salmon Recipes

How To Buy Salmon

What To Look For When Buying Salmon

3 Quick & Easy Salmon Recipes For Parties

Salmon With Puy Lentils

Deelicious!

Salmon Recipes

Salmon Recipe Books

Save Money

Cooking with Salmon

Get Updates from Great Salmon Recipes

Salmon Theme Gifts

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Wear with Pride!

Salmon Fishing Items at Auction

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Buy Delicious and Healthy Salmon

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