Easy Appetizer Recipes
Smoked Brook Trout Appetizer with Shrimp and Caviar
If you are looking for easy party appetizers you can make with smoked brook trout or a good recipe for smoked trout, this one is perfect. The smoked trout is combined with shrimp and caviar and served on a bed of delicious homemade cabbage salad. The cabbage salad actually freezes really well so feel free to double or triple the recipe if you want to make extra. Alternatively you keep it in jars in the refrigerator.
Smoked lake trout recipes vary but some of the ingredients in the cabbage salad recipe, namely the mustard, lemon pepper and celery seed, are used in various smoked trout recipes because they go nicely with the fish flavor. Smoked trout is a gourmet ingredient and if you want impressive buffet appetizers, this one is really good. You can also serve this at a dinner party but because the dish looks best on a big serving platter, serve it like that, then serve individual portions with a big spoon.
There are plenty of holiday appetizer recipes with fish but this one is extra special because the three main ingredients - smoked trout, shrimp and caviar - are all gourmet ingredients in their own right and this dish is really special. Think about serving smoked trout recipes if you want to impress people. A lot of them are very easy and, since you don't have to smoke the trout yourself, it is ready to add to salad recipes or be cut up and used to top canapés and other easy party appetizers. Another good idea for smoked trout is to serve it on crackers with a little horseradish sauce.
Sumptuous Smoked Trout on a Bed of Spiced Cabbage Salad
Ingredients -
1 cabbage
⅓ cup sugar
½ teaspoon lemon pepper
1 grated carrot
½ teaspoon seasoned salt
½ teaspoon mustard seed
½ cup vinegar
⅓ cup cold water
½ grated onion
½ grated green bell pepper
½ teaspoon celery seed
10 oz cooked shrimp
3 inches cucumber, in thin strips
5 fillets smoked trout
Caviar, to serve
Salt, to taste
Fresh parsley, for garnish
Preparation:
Add the water, vinegar, celery seed, sugar, lemon pepper, seasoned salt and mustard seed to a pan and bring the mixture to a boil.
Let it cool down.
Grate the cabbage and stir it with ¾ of the cooled liquid mixture.
Add the carrot, onion, cucumber and green bell pepper.
Season to taste. Spoon this mixture over a large serving platter and arrange the smoked trout fillets on top.
Add the cooked shrimp and caviar and ladle the rest of the cooled vinegar mixture over the top.
Garnish with parsley. Chill for an hour, under a layer of plastic wrap, and serve with a big spoon, so people can cut the trout fillets easily.
(Serves 12)
Photo Description:
Smoked trout recipes like this one show your guests that you want them to enjoy your food. Of course, you can tell from the recipe that this is one of our easy party appetizers and making this delicious smoked trout recipe is just a question of making an easy cabbage salad and arranging the trout, shrimp and caviar on top, but your guests don't need to know that! This is a simple yet delicious fish appetizer recipe which everyone will really enjoy. Serve this at a dinner party or on a buffet table and it is guaranteed to impress everyone who enjoys seafood appetizer recipes.
