The Ark Restaurant Smoked Salmon Pate Recipes

Steps:

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

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.

Steps:

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

Steps:

• 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.

Steps:

• Mash cream cheese with onion and lemon juice.
• Mix in liquid smoke.
• Drain salmon and remove dark skin and bones.
• Add horseradish and mix well.
• Chill for several hours.

Steps:

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

Steps:

• Process salmon in food processor till almost smooth.
• Transfer to a bowl.
• Add all other ingredients.
• Stir gently till combined.
• Season if need be.
• Place into serving bowl, smooth top.
• Cover with plastic wrap.
• Refrigerate for at least 3 hours.
• Serve with melba toast.

Steps:

• To make the buns, put the flour in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Add the chives and salt on one side of the bowl, and the sugar and yeast to the other. Mix each side into the flour with your hands, then mix everything together using the dough hook. Tip the milk into a small pan and warm over a low heat until warm to the touch, but not hot. Slowly mix into the dry ingredients until combined. Lightly beat 3 of the eggs. With the motor on medium speed, slowly add the beaten egg and mix for 10 mins, then add the butter, one or two cubes at a time, until combined - this will take another 5-8 mins. Scrape the sides of the bowl down. The dough will be very soft at this stage.
• Scrape the dough into a large bowl, cover with a clean tea towel, and leave to prove for 1 hr 30 mins-2 hrs until doubled in size. Once the dough has risen, chill for 1 hr.
• Put the salmon, soft cheese and mustard in a food processor and pulse several times until the salmon is coarsely chopped. Transfer to a bowl and stir in half the capers, the dill and the lemon zest and juice. Season, then chill until needed.
• Line a large baking sheet with baking parchment. Tip the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface, and divide into 18 equal-sized balls (weigh for accuracy, if you like). Butter the outside of a 12cm ovenproof bowl. Place the bowl in the middle of the baking sheet and arrange the dough balls around it, leaving a 2cm space between each for spreading. Cover with a tea towel and leave in a warm place to prove for 30-35 mins until doubled in size.
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Beat the remaining egg, then lightly brush it over the dough balls. Bake for 25-30 mins until golden and risen. Leave to cool on the sheet for 20 mins, then carefully remove the bowl (you may need to run a knife around it to release it). Spoon the pâté into a small bowl, place it in the gap in the middle of the buns, then top with extra dill, a grinding of black pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. To serve, tear the buns from the ring and spread with the pâté.

Steps:

• 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.