Easy Appetizer Recipes
Smoked Salmon and Dill Cold Appetizer Recipe
Smoked salmon, sour cream, and dill is a classic combination and this mixture is used in many appetizer recipes and main course recipes. In the following cold appetizer recipe, the smoked salmon roll ups are garnished with capers and served on brown bread circles or crackers. This is a wonderfully simple recipe, which tastes sublime.
These are easy party appetizers to make and, as long as you have all the ingredients to hand, you can make a lot of these tasty salmon treats at once. This is an ideal cold appetizer recipe if you want to make impressive looking yet simple appetizers and they are also nice for buffets. Seafood appetizers such as smoked salmon appetizer recipes always seem sophisticated and look elegant. This type of cold appetizer recipe is best served very cold because when they get warm the salmon starts to curl up and the edges go crispy which is not good!
If you are serving this cold appetizer recipe at a dinner party, give every guest one each. If you are serving them at a buffet, serve them early on while people are still hungry. There are some kinds of appetizers that you can serve later but if you serve these later, they will get warm before people eat them and you have to throw these away if they are uneaten. Smoked salmon is not cheap so you will not want wastage.
Salmon, Sour Cream and Dill Roll Ups
Ingredients -
10 oz sliced, smoked salmon, cut into 18 pieces
2 tablespoons snipped fresh dill
½ cup sour cream
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 small jar capers, drained
10 round crackers or brown toast circles
Fresh dill to garnish
Preparation:
Combine the sour cream, lemon juice, and snipped dill and divide this mixture between the salmon pieces.
Roll them up to make cone shapes.
Top each cracker with a piece of salmon stuffed with the dill and sour cream mixture and garnish with fresh dill and a couple of capers.
(Makes 10)
Photo Description:
These fancy party appetizers are much easier to make than you might think. You can see from the photo how great the colors look together and how a few capers and a sprig of fresh dill elevate these simple smoked salmon appetizers to something classy and elegant. This smoked salmon appetizer recipe features lemon, sour cream and dill and each of those flavors enhances the amazing smoked salmon flavor. You can serve these salmon appetizers on circles of bread or crackers. If you are serving them at a sit-down dinner, you could use a lettuce leaf instead of the bread or cracker, because people will have cutlery, unlike with a buffet where it is mainly finger food.
