Salmon Pate Ala Villani Recipes

Steps:

• In a bowl, blend all ingredients until smooth.
• Transfer to a glass bowl.
• Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, mix together salmon, cream cheese, liquid smoke, fresh lemon juice, Tabasco sauce, onion and salt; mix well.
• Adjust seasonings to taste.
• Transfer to a smaller bowl, cover and refrigerate to chill, about 1 hour or longer.
• When chilled, roll mixture into a ball.
• Roll the ball in finely chopped parsley until coated.
• Transfer ball to a serving plate.
• Serve with an assortment of crackers or potato chips.
• Refrigerate any unused portion.
• Freshly cooked salmon can also be used.
• If desired, use 6 green onions finely chopped instead of the regular onion.

Steps:

• Combine smoked salmon, creme fraiche, lemon juice, and a generous grinding of coarse black pepper in the food processor; blend until smooth.
• Spoon into a bowl, adjust seasoning, and chill for about 1 hour before serving. Garnish with fennel fronds.

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• If you aren't using smoked salmon trimmings then chop the salmon into small pieces. Tip the soft cheese, crème fraîche (if using) and lemon juice into a food processor, season generously with black pepper and blitz to your liking. Add the smoked salmon and pulse a few times if you want the paté chunky or blitz some more if you want the paté smooth and pink.
• Stir the herbs into the paté and spoon into a large or four smaller bowls and serve with warm toast as a starter or with breadsticks as a dip.

Steps:

• Line 2-cup bowl with plastic wrap. In medium bowl, beat all ingredients except parsley and bread with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Spoon into lined bowl; press with rubber spatula. Cover; refrigerate until ready to serve.
• To unmold, place 8-inch plate upside down on bowl, then turn plate and bowl over; remove bowl and plastic wrap. Sprinkle parsley over top of pâté and on rim of plate. Serve with bread.

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• In a medium bowl, mix together the salmon, cream cheese, horseradish, lemon juice, and onion. Chill if necessary until firm enough to handle, then form into a ball. Roll in parsley and/or pecans. Refrigerate until serving. Serve with assorted crackers.

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• Watercress Sauce:.
• In food processor, puree watercress, mustard, salt and pepper until smooth.
• With machine running, add oil drop by drop as mixture thickens.
• Add lemon juice, then add sour cream.
• Set aside to chill while preparing pate.
• Pate:.
• Butter a 3 1/2" X 11 1/2" X 2 1/2" terrine (or glass bread pan)and line it with buttered parchment paper (butter side up).
• Rinse 2-3 sprigs of watercress (for decoration) and lay on a paper towel to dry.
• Blanch remaining watercress in boiling water for 15 seconds, plunge into ice water. Drain and squeeze dry.
• Preheat oven to 250°F.
• In food processor, add onion, smoked salmon, salmon fillets (cut into 1" pieces), dill, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Process until mixture forms a fine paste.
• With machine running on low, slowly add heavy cream. Add eggs, one at a time; process an additional 30 seconds.
• Remove 3/4 of the mixture to a bowl.
• To the remaining 1/4 mixture, add blanched watercress, and mix by cutting through the mixture with a knife. (Mixture will not be uniform in color).
• Put one half of the reserved (no watercress) mixture into the terrine. Cut through it several times with a knife, and then bang it on the counter to settle it.
• Place the watercress-salmon mixture down the middle of the pate in the terrine, distributing as evenly as possible.
• Add the rest of the salmon mixture. Bang it twice to settle it.
• Cover with a piece of buttered parchment paper. Bake in a water bath for 15 minutes at 250°F Turn heat down to 225°F and bake an additional 25 minutes.
• Pate will be firm, but not hard.
• Wait at least 5 minutes and unmold onto a serving plate. Decorate the top of the pate with reserved watercress.
• Serve thin slices with watercress sauce laced diagonally across.

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• Line 2-cup bowl or mold with plastic wrap. Beat cream cheese in medium bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. Stir in salmon, 2 tablespoons of the red onion, 1 tablespoon of the dill weed and the mustard. Spoon into bowl lined with plastic wrap, pressing firmly. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours but no longer than 24 hours.
• Turn upside down onto serving plate; remove bowl and plastic wrap. Garnish pâté with remaining 1 tablespoon red onion, 1 tablespoon dill weed and the capers. Serve with crackers.

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• Drain, debone and flake salmon. Add the remaining ingredients except the garnishes. , On a platter, mold salmon mixture into a fish shape. Arrange almonds to resemble scales. Use slice of olive for eye, thin strips of celery for the tail. Garnish with parsley. Chill until serving. Serve with crackers. Refrigerate leftovers.

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• Combine all the ingredients and mix well.
• Put in a serving dish, cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
• Garnish with extra dill.

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• Mix all ingredients and thin down with a little mayonnaise or lemon juice if desired.
• Enjoy.

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• Blend salmon, Greek yogurt, salt, and dill weed together in a food processor until creamy and smooth. Refrigerate pate until set, at least 1 hour.
• Butter each slice of bread and toast in the toaster oven, about 4 minutes. Spread salmon pate over bread; spread pepper jelly on top.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a small saucepan, let it cool slightly.
• Place the salmon in your food processor.
• With the machine running add the butter until you have a smooth pate.
• Remove the mix from the food processor bowl and add the lemon juice, cream and check the seasoning.
• Line a dish with plastic wrap and spoon in the pate, leave in the fridge until needed but at least for 30 to 40 minutes.
• Remove from the fridge 30 minutes before serving.
• Turn the pate out on to a dish, remove the plastic wrap, garnish with a ring of cucumber slices around the pate.
• Serve with homemade Melba Toast#24802 or#40247.