Salmon Mouse Recipes

Steps:

• Place 3 tablespoons cold water in a small saucepan, and sprinkle with gelatin; let soften, 5 minutes. Gently heat over low, stirring, just until gelatin dissolves; set aside.
• In the bowl of a food processor, combine salmon, sour cream, and lemon juice. Puree until smooth; season with salt. With motor running, add slightly cooled gelatin mixture, and blend until combined.
• Pour into two 8-ounce ramekins or bowls. Without touching surface, cover container with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm but spreadable, about 2 hours or up to overnight. Garnish mousse with dill, if desired, and serve with crackers or baguette slices.

Steps:

• Place smoked salmon in a blender or food processor, and blend until smooth. Mix in heavy cream, cream cheese, juice of half of a lemon, dried dill weed, salt and pepper. Blend to desired consistency. Transfer to a medium serving dish, and garnish with salmon roe.

Steps:

• Place 3 tablespoons cold water in a small saucepan, and sprinkle with gelatin; let soften, 5 minutes. Gently heat over low, stirring, just until gelatin dissolves; set aside.
• In the bowl of a food processor, combine salmon, sour cream, and lemon juice. Puree until smooth; season with salt. With motor running, add slightly cooled gelatin mixture, and blend until combined.
• Pour into two 8-ounce ramekins or bowls. Without touching surface, cover container with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm but spreadable, about 2 hours or up to overnight.
• Garnish mousse with dill or capers, if desired, and serve with crackers or baguette slices.

Steps:

• Place fish in bowl of a food processor or blender. Add nutmeg, cayenne, salt and pepper. Using chopping blade, blend for about 15 seconds. As blade turns, add egg, then the cream. Blend a few seconds more until smooth.
• With pastry brush, butter a two- quart steam pot and press the mixture evenly into it. Smooth top with a rubber spatula. Cover, place steam pot over boiling water and steam over high heat for about 20 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 140 degrees.
• Remove and invert mousse onto serving dish and serve with a sauce. (A beurre blanc, mushrooom sauce with sherry or a tarragon-cream sauce is appropriate).

Steps:

• Scald milk and set aside. In a saucepan over low heat, melt 3 tablespoons butter. Add flour to melted butter and cook, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon, 2 to 3 minutes, until the mixture is very thick. Add the scalded milk, all at once, and beat with a wire whisk over low heat for 5 minutes more, until the bechamel is thick and smooth. Add salt, pepper and cayenne, remove from heat and set aside to cool until lukewarm.
• Skin and bone salmon meat and flake with a fork. Cut remaining butter into chunks. Add salmon and butter to bechamel and mix well, using an electric beater rather than a blender or processor.
• Add cream and Cognac to salmon mixture and blend thoroughly. Taste for seasoning, adding more salt, pepper or cayenne if necessary.
• Refrigerate, covered, until the mixture has thickened sufficiently to allow piping through a pastry bag and tube - 2 to 3 hours, or overnight.
• While the mixture is cooling, remove tops from tomatoes and scoop out flesh. Stand tomatoes upside down on a rack to drain. When the salmon mixture is ready, pipe it into the hollowed-out tomatoes and top with a few grains of red salmon roe. Extra mousse can be served in a bowl topped with more roe.

Steps:

• Sprinkle gelatine over water in a small saucepan.
• Soak 2 minutes.
• Add salt, sugar, mustard and vinegar.
• Stir constanly over low heat until gelatine in dissolved.
• Remove from heat and chill till the consistency of egg white, don't over chill!
• Add to salmon, capers and celery, mix well.
• Fold in the whipped cream.
• Turn into wetted mould, or individual moulds, and chill till set.
• Unmould and serve with salad greens and sour cream dressing.
• Mix all dressing ingredients together and chill.