Cold-smoked salmon “taco” with avocado dressing

Cold-smoked salmon “taco” with avocado dressing

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Ingredients (4 servings):
12 taco shells
300-400 g cold-smoked salmon
Sour cream
1 mango
1 red bell pepper
Coriander
Romaine lettuce or other salad leaves
Avocado dressing:
1 avocado
Good-quality olive oil
Freshly pressed lemon juice
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
A little fresh coriander, if you want
Fennel salad:
1 fennel
Good-quality olive oil
Freshly pressed lemon juice
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Fremgangsmåte

Cut the smoked salmon into cubes or whatever shape you prefer. 
Wash the salad, using a salad spinner to get rid of most of the water, if you have one.

Scoop out the avocado flesh and mash it with a fork, stirring in a little olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Wash the fennel, cut it into thin slices and mix it together with some drops of oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Peel and dice the mango. Wash and dice the bell pepper.

Heat the taco shell and assemble your taco however you like.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem

Cold-smoked salmon sandwiches with avocado and egg mayonnaise

Cold-smoked salmon sandwiches with avocado and egg mayonnaise

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Ingredients (4 servings):
Good-quality bread
300–400 g cold-smoked salmon
1 avocado
Romaine lettuce
Green spices
Serve with lemon or lime on the side.
Mayonnaise:
1 egg
2 ss vinegar
A little salt and freshly ground pepper
Approx. 5–8 drops Tabasco sauce
1 ss Dijon mustard
approx. 0.5 l neutral oil (sunflower, corn, rapeseed)
4 hard-boiled eggs

Fremgangsmåte

Method:
“Egg mayonnaise 1”

Use a cylinder bowl.

Add the egg, mustard, Tabasco, vinegar, salt and pepper into the bowl. Then pour in the oil – wait 1 minute for the oil to float to the top.

Take a hand blender and, make sure it touches the bottom of the bowl, whisk the mixture. The hand blender will ensure that the ingredients are mixed into a creamy consistency. Once you have the right consistency, carefully move the blender up and down a little in the bowl until the mayonnaise is nice and rich. Then add the hard-boiled and shelled eggs to the mayonnaise and whisk again with the hand blender until you have an even consistency.

This is my preferred method.

“Egg mayonnaise 2”
Add all of the ingredients into a bowl, except for the oil.

Thoroughly mix all the ingredients together and pour in the oil in a thin stream to dilute the mixture, while stirring constantly. Once you have a creamy mayonnaise, mash the hard-boiled and shelled eggs up in the mayonnaise.

Wash the salad, using a salad spinner to get rid of most of the water, if you have one


Spread the egg mayonnaise on the bread slices and place the salad and smoked salmon on top. Serve with avocado wedges/cubes, egg mayonnaise and spicy greens.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem.

Spinach soup with poached eggs and cold-smoked salmon

Spinach soup with poached eggs and cold-smoked salmon

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Ingredients (4 servings):
Spinach soup
100 g spinach
2 shallots
2 garlic cloves
30 g butter
5 dl chicken or vegetable stock
1-2 dl cream
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Dairy butter
Or corn starch
Poached eggs
1 l water
4 eggs
4 ss apple cider vinegar
Salt
Approx. 200 g cold-smoked salmon
Or croutons

Fremgangsmåte

Boil 1 litre of water together with the vinegar. Break the eggs into a cup. Whisk the water quickly in one direction. Add the eggs into the pot while the water circulates, take the pan off the heat, and let the eggs simmer until they are as poached as you want them. Once the eggs are done, take them out of the water, sprinkle a little salt on them, and set them on a plate by the stove – leave them there until the soup is ready so they don’t get too cold.


Cut the smoked salmon to the size you want.


Wash the spinach and use a salad spinner to get rid of most of the water.


Finely chop the shallots and garlic – divide them into two piles.
Whisk one half of the onions and garlic into butter. Once the shallots have turned clear, add the spinach. Stir and add salt/pepper – set it in the fridge to cool – it is important they cool quickly so that the spinach/soup maintains the nicest colour possible.


The other half of the shallots and garlic should also be fried in a pan with butter. Once the onions have turned clear, add the stock. Bring it to a boil and let it simmer for five minutes. Then add cream, let it reduce a little, and add the cold butter. Use a blender to mix it until it’s an evenly consistent soup. If the consistency is a little thin, thicken the soup with a little corn starch. Just before serving, add the spinach, and blend again until you have a smooth, green soup. Pour the soup into a pot, bring it to the boil and season – serve with the poached eggs and croutons if you want.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem.

Cold-smoked salmon with beetroots, horseradish and apple

Cold-smoked salmon with beetroots, horseradish and apple

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Ingredients (4 servings):
240,00 g cold-smoked salmon
1 beetroot
Approx. 1–2 tbsp horseradish
1 apple
0,50 cucumber
Dill
Rye bread

Fremgangsmåte

Boil the beetroots in lightly salted water until they are soft. Peel the beetroots and dice them when they have cooled.

Cut the salmon into nice, long strips along the “grain of the meat”.

Peel the horseradish, and peel and cut the apples and cucumber – I used a potato peeler for the apples and cucumber in the picture.

Cut the rye bread into thin slices and toast in the oven until they are crunchy.

Arrange and serve with dill.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem.

Risotto with cured salmon and green peas

Risotto with cured salmon and green peas

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Ingredients (4 servings):
30 g butter
2 shallots
250 g risotto rice
2 dl white wine
11 dl vegetable stock or mild chicken stock
60 g butter
40 g parmesan
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Freshly pressed lemon juice
200 g peas, frozen
240 g aquavit-cured salmon
Herbs

Fremgangsmåte

Cut the salmon into thin slices and keep in a cold place.

Parboil the green peas in lightly salted water for 1–2 minutes. Quickly cool the peas in cold water, before straining the water.

Fry the shallot in butter until it’s golden, then add the risotto rice. Fry the rice until it’s “glassy” then add a little warm stock. Slowly dilute the rice with the stock until it’s soft and has the consistency of wet “porridge”. Add the peas and stir in the butter and grated parmesan, and season with freshly pressed lemon juice, salt and freshly ground pepper.

Arrange the risotto on a flat plate, with thin slices of aquavit-cured salmon and herbs.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem.

“Classic” aquavit-cured salmon

“Classic” aquavit-cured salmon

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Ingredients (4 servings):
240–320 g aquavit-cured salmon
Mustard sauce
30 g Dijon mustard
20 g rough Dijon mustard
10 g ravigote
1 egg yolk
10 g brown sugar
1 ss dill, chopped
2 ss neutral oil (sunflower, corn, rapeseed)
salt and freshly ground black pepper
Dill-stewed potatoes
0,50 l milk
30 g butter
2 ss corn starch
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Approx. 6 potatoes, peeled, boiled and diced
Dill

Fremgangsmåte

Cut the cured salmon to the desired shape and thickness.

Mustard sauce: Mix all the ingredients except for the oil into a bowl and stir a little.

Then dilute with a thin stream of oil until you’ve achieved the right consistency.
Boil the milk and stir in a little butter. Add a little corn starch (dissolved into cold water) so that the consistency is relatively thick. Next add the diced potatoes, and fold them into the mixture with a spatula. Add the chopped dill and season with salt and freshly ground pepper.

Arrange and serve. The dish goes well with snaps.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem.

Cured salmon starter with dill and mustard

Cured salmon starter with dill and mustard

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Ingredients (4 servings):
300 g cured salmon
Dill
Mustard sauce
30 g Dijon mustard
20 g rough Dijon mustard
10 g ravigote
1 egg yolk
10 g brown sugar
1 ss dill, chopped
2 dl neutral oil (sunflower, corn, rapeseed)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Fremgangsmåte

Mustard sauce: Mix all the ingredients except for the oil into a bowl and stir a little.

Then dilute with a thin stream of oil until you’ve achieved the right consistency.

Cut the cured salmon into small cubes or strips, and add the finely chopped dill and mustard sauce until the consistency is correct. Season with a squeeze of lemon juice.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem.

Omelette with hot-smoked salmon and rocket salad

Omelette with hot-smoked salmon and rocket salad

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Ingredients (4 servings):
6 eggs
1 dl water
a little salt and freshly ground black pepper
240 g hot-smoked salmon
1 bag of rocket salad
1 sesame seeds
1-2 radishes

Fremgangsmåte

Whisk the eggs well together with salt and a little pepper, adding a little water as you go. Fry the omelette in a small or large frying pan (according to the number of guests and kitchen equipment)

Clean the hot-smoked salmon and warm the fish a little in the oven at 150 degrees for approx. 3–4 minutes.

Arrange the fish on the omelette and add the washed salad, radishes and sesame seeds.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem.

Salad with hot-smoked salmon, basil mayonnaise, romaine lettuce, tomatoes and walnuts

Salad with hot-smoked salmon, basil mayonnaise, romaine lettuce, tomatoes and walnuts

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Ingredients (4 servings):
2 leaves of Romaine lettuce
360–400 g hot-smoked salmon
0,50 cauliflower
35,00 walnuts
1 pomegranate
Basil mayonnaise
0,50 pot basil
1 egg
1 ss Dijon mustard
2 ss apple cider vinegar
Salt & pepper
5 – 6 Tabasco sauce
5 dl neutral oil (sunflower, corn, rapeseed)

Fremgangsmåte

Remove any skin and dark muscle meat/fat from the salmon. Then tear the fish into pieces.

Wash the salad, using a salad spinner to get rid of most of the water, if you have one.

Wash the cauliflower in water with a little salt to remove any caterpillars. Cut it into slices.

Half the pomegranate and remove the seeds.

Basil mayonnaise 1

Use a cylinder bowl.

Add the eggs, mustard, Tabasco, vinegar, basil leaves, salt and freshly ground pepper into the bowl. Then pour in the oil – wait 1 minute for the oil to float to the top.

Take a hand blender and, making sure it touches the bottom of the bowl, whisk the mixture. The hand blender will ensure that the ingredients are mixed into a creamy consistency. Once you have the right consistency, carefully move the blender up and down a little in the bowl until the mayonnaise is nice and rich.


This is my preferred way of making it.

Basil mayonnaise 2

Another way is to use a hand blender to mix the oil and basil into a green oil. Add all of the ingredients into a bowl, except for the basil oil.

Thoroughly mix all the ingredients together and pour in the basil oil in a thin stream to dilute the mixture, while stirring constantly.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem

Hot-smoked salmon with horseradish & eggs

Hot-smoked salmon with horseradish & eggs

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350 g hot-smoked salmon
200 g light or sour cream
20,00 g horseradish, preferably fresh. Feel free to add extra if you want more “crunch”
2 eggs
1 ss tbsp dill, chopped
Bread for toasting

Fremgangsmåte

Remove any skin and dark muscle meat/fat from the salmon. Then tear the fish into pieces.

Put the sour cream in a bowl and stir in the salmon until you’ve achieved the right consistency.

Add the diced egg (use an egg cutter), chopped dill and grated horseradish.

Toast the bread just before serving to get the best possible taste.

– Recipe developed in collaboration with Charles Tjessem.