You know when you are entertaining and you have a vision, you have friends coming for dinner and want to start with smoked salmon canapés served with champagne or cocktail, but you can’t get what you need to create the recipe you want? Certain products like blinis can be so hard to get, and I tried EVERYWHERE last week!
What You Will Find Here
Try These Easy Smoked Salmon Canapés
I was determined to make my own smoked salmon canapes. Thus, I decided I would make homemade crostinis from freshly baked bread and create my own homemade canapés.
The benefit of this is that it’s easy, costs less and makes great finger food as the crust is delicious and crispy. I also chose to use caviar, which pushed the price up slightly. But a little goes a long way, and it’s a personal choice; caviar is not something you need to add to make your salmon canapés show-stopping. You can also buy cheaper alternatives, such as lumpfish caviar, which tastes great.
How To Make Easy Smoke Salmon Canapés For Entertaining
Shopping List
- 1 French Stick
- Olive Oil
- Smoked Salmon Slices
- Soft Cheese
- Cucumber
- Lumpfish Caviar
- Salt
- Black Pepper
Alternative Ideas For Garnishes
- Fresh Dill
- Lemon Juice and lemon zest
- Garlic to add into the olive oil
- Horseradish
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Make Your Crostinis
Start by pre heating the oven to 150 degrees, and slicing the French stick into thin slices. Now pour a glug of oil into a small bowl and add half a tsp ground rough salt.
Lay out the French bread slices onto a tray and with a pastry brush, brush the oil onto the top of the bread slices. Place in the oven to bake for 10-15 minutes until it is crunchy but soft in the middle. You want a little bite but not for the bread to go hard. Once its ready take out of the oven to cool.
Prepare The Toppings For Your Smoked Salmon Canapes
Plan a strategy for the design of your Smoked Salmon Canapés, I figured not everyone loves salmon so make every other canapés a cucumber canapés. (Ok this is simple but you can mix it up and add pastrami or salami.)
Prepare the smoked salmon by slicing into small strips and rolling up, each piece wants to be around 1×2.5 inches. Then slice the cucumber Into thin slices.
Once the bread has cooled spread with cream cheese, this can be as thick as you want and don’t worry too much about perfection, your canapés will look great with all the colour.
Build The Canapes
Now it’s time to build your canapés, I go for placement to look pretty, however functional is fine too. Start by putting a roll of salmon on every other crostini and position the outside row of a serving tray.
When you get to the next row, stagger your salmon so you get a chequerboard effect, do the same on the next row. Next, put cucumber slices on the rest of the canapés, this will create a variety of colours and textures.
If you plan to use caviar I would advise only putting it on 50% of you canapés. This gives choice to those who don’t enjoy caviar, I would suggest doing this and leaving a small bowl of caviar with teaspoons on the side to give your guests the option.
Storing Your Canapés If You Make Them Ahead
If we are entertaining I like to be prepared, special occasions are only special if you can enjoy them yourself too right? Thus I prepare in the morning and pop my canapés in and airtight container in the refrigerator to keep them fresh. However do remove half an hour before you served as no one likes cold crostini bread.
More Easy Canapé Suggestions
- Cream cheese with a little caviar, garnished with a small mint leaf.
- Mozzarella sliced with salami and tomato.
- Cream cheese, smoked salmon and slice cucumber.
- Mozzarella and tomato garnished with a small mint leaf..
- Cream cheese wrapped in parma ham.
- Mozzarella sliced with salami and cucumber.
And If you are planning a dinner party check out more of my party and canapés recipes recipes, make sure you try our my Camembert and Tiger Bread Recipe and easy Charcuterie Board. My platter is a Denby Heritage Platter, I adore it and use it for so much. In fact to need to buy more! This one is around 4 years old, its sturdy a great size and looks great.
Smoked Salmon Canapés
Easy smoked salmon canapés with home made crostinis recipe, a great cold canapés recipe to make ahead when you are entertaining.
Ingredients
- 1 French Stick
- Olive Oil
- Soft Cheese
- Cucumber
- Lumpfish Caviar
- Salt
Instructions
- Start by pre heating the oven to 150 degrees, and slicing the French stick into thin slices. Now pour a glug of oil into a small bowl and add half a tsp ground rough salt.
- Lay out the French bread slices onto a tray and with a pastry brush, brush the oil onto the top of the bread slices. Place in the oven for 10-15 minutes until it is crunchy but soft in the middle. You want a little bite but not for the bread to go hard. Once its ready take out of the oven to cool.
Plan a strategy for the design of your Smoked Salmon Canapés, I figured not everyone loves salmon so every other canapés was a cucumber canapés. (Ok this is simple but you can mix it up and add pastrami or salami.)
Prepare the smoked salmon by slicing into small strips and rolling up, each piece wants to be around 1×2.5 inches. Then slice the cucumber Into thin slices.
Once the bread has cooled spread with cream cheese, this can be as thick as you want and don’t worry too much about perfection, your canapés will look great with all the colour.
Now its time to build your canapés, I go for placement to look pretty, however functional is fine too. Start by putting a roll of salmon on every other crostini on the outside row.
When you get to the next row, stagger your salmon so you get a chequerboard effect, do the same on the next row. Next, put slices of cucumber on the rest of the canapés.
If you plan to use caviar I would advice only putting it on 50% of you canapés. This gives choice to those who don’t enjoy caviar, I would suggest doing this and leaving a small bowl of caviar with spoons on the side to give your guests the option.
Notes
If you want to mix it up a little, add pastrami or pancetta.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 25Total Fat: 2gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 10mgSodium: 84mgCarbohydrates: 1gFiber: 0gSugar: 0gProtein: 1g
