Tag: Fish

Creamy Salmon with Knedlíky Recipe

“There is no perfection only life”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Salmon ingredients (2 servings):
– 200g salmon
– 1 red bell pepper
– 100ml cream 33%
– salt to taste
– 0.5 tbsp sunflower oil

Knedlíky ingredients:
– 500g boiled potatoes
– 150g flour
– 50g wholemeal floor
– 2 eggs
– 1/2 tsp salt

Method:
1 Salmon
1.1 Preheat 0.5 tbsp sunflower oil in the skillet
1.2 Fry salmon (fully defrosted) one side until golden
1.3 Turn the salmon over, add salt, add chopped red bell pepper – fry salmon until golden
1.4 Add cream and cook for another 3-4minutes
2 Knedlíky
2.1 Mix boiled potatoes, flour and salt: mix until smooth.
2.2 Form two sausages 5cm diameter.
2.3 Put the sausages in the boiling water, covering the sausages. Boil for 20 minutes at medium heat.
3 Serve salmon with Knedlíky and dill

Flammkuchen Recipe with Smoked Salmon and Sour Cream | Easy Homemade Delight

I’m not much but I’m all I have.

― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

Tarte Flambee

Dough ingredients:
– 220g wheat flour
– 1 egg yolk
– 2 tbsp olive oil
– 100ml water
– 1/3 tsp salt

Filling ingredients:
– 150g sour cream
– 2 small onions
– 100g smoked salmon
– 1 red bell pepper
– chopped parsley for serving

Directions:
1 Preheat the oven to 200C
2 Mix dough ingredients and knead the dough for 3-4 minutes
3 Roll out the dough into an oval, 3-4mm height
4 Put the dough on the baking paper and bake at 200C for 8 min
5 Chop onion, paprika and salmon
6 Spread the sour cream over the baked dough base, then add chopped onion, paprika and salmon slices
7 Bake Flammkuchen for 10 minutes at 200C
8 Serve with chopped parsley

Eggs and Sprats Sandwich !

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

V.N.

Ingredients:
– 110g canned sprats
– 3 eggs
– 2tsp mayonnaise
– black pepper powder
– chopped parsley
– fresh bread rolls

Method:
1 Boil eggs
2 Combine cut boiled eggs, sprats, mayonnaise, black pepper powder and chopped parsley: mash with a fork
3 Transfer the sprats-salad on the fresh bread rolls and enjoy immediately ! Black coffee goes along perfectly 🙂

Baked Garlic Potatoes with Tuna sauce !

Ah, it’s my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Potatoes ingredients:
– 1 kg potatoes
– 3 clothes grated garlic
– 1 tsp paprika
– 2/3 tsp salt
– 1/2 tsp black pepper
– 2 tbsp olive oil

Tuna sauce ingredients:
– 1 can tuna
– 1 chopped red onion
– 2 tsp mayonnaise
– 1 tbsp lemon 🍋 juice
– 2 tbsp cream cheese

Method:
1 Preheat the oven to 180C
2 Boil potatoes for 3 minutes, drain water and left them cool down for 5 minutes
3 Mix semi-boiled potatoes with grated garlic, paprika, salt, black pepper and olive oil
4 Transfer the potatoes pieces on the baking paper and bake 30min at 180C
5 Tuna sauce: mix tuna, cut onion, mayonnaise, lemon juice, cream cheese and mash with a blender
6 Serve with fresh tomatoes and cucumbers ! Enjoy !

Salmon-Kohlrabi soup: simple and healthy

When I am not reading Kafka I am thinking about Kafka. When I am not thinking about Kafka I miss thinking about him. Having missed thinking about him for a while, I take him out and read him again. That’s how it works.

László Krasznahorkai
Salmon-Kohlrabi soup

Ingredients:
– 200g salmon
– 1 Kohlrabi
– 4 medium potatoes
– 4 medium carrots
– 1 red onion
– dill for serving
– 1 tsp salt

Method:
1 Pill vegetables, chop vegetables and salmon into 1-2 cm cubes
2 Put vegetables and salmon in a pan, add water to cover + 1cm more, add salt: cook at medium heat 18 minutes after boiling
3 Serve with chopped dill !

Simple and Healthy Lunch: Asparagus, Salmon and Mustard Sauce !

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ingredients (2 servings):
– 500g white asparagus
– 200g salmon

Mustard sauce ingredients:
– 1 tsp Dijon mustard
– 2 boiled eggs (or 2 boiled eggs)
– 3 tsp mayonnaise
– 2 tbsp lemon juice
– 2 tsp olive oil

Serving ingredients:
– fresh parsley

Method:
1 Mustard sauce: combine sauce ingredients and mix
2 Asparagus with salmon
2.1 Wash and peel white asparagus
2.2 Boil asparagus in the pan with salmon for 14 minutes in salted water
3 Serve boiled asparagus and salmon with mustard sauce and chopped fresh parsley !

Creamy Salmon and Rice: quick and delicious lunch !

No one’s serious at seventeen,
When lindens line the promenades

A. Rimbaud
Creamy Salmon and Rice

Ingredients (for 2 servings):
– 180g salmon
– 100ml 33% cream
– 180g Basmati rice
– salt for boiling rice
– 1/2 tbsp olive oil for frying

Serving ingredients:
– 60g Parmesan
– 2-3 scallion sprigs
– 1/2 tsp black pepper

Method:
1 Grate Parmesan into a bowl and put in the fridge
2 Wash and cut scallion into thin rings, put in a separate bowl
3 Boil rice in salted water until ready and keep it warm while cooking salmon
4 Wash salmon and cut into 1-1.5cm cubes
5 Fry salmon for 5 min in olive oil at middle heat, add 33% cream and stew for another 5 min
6 Transfer the rice into the serving bowls and put the salmon over the rice
7 Sprinkle the dish with grated Parmesan, chopped scallion and black pepper
8 Serve !

Spinach Pancakes with Salmon and Honey !

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Spinach Pancakes with Salmon

Pancakes ingredients (~8 pancakes):
– 200g fresh spinach
– 300ml Kefir
– 2 eggs
– 7 tbsp wheat flour
– 3 tbsp olive oil
– 2 tsp sugar
– 1/2 tsp salt

Serving ingredients:
– 30ml acacia honey
– 100g smoked salmon
– a few raspberries

Method:
1 Wash spinach and squeeze it in a colander to get rid of extra water
2 Mash spinach in a puree with an immersive blender or in a food processor
3 Combine spinach puree, flour, Kefir, eggs, olive oil, sugar & salt: mix well until smooth
4 Pre-heat a non-sticking skillet with a small amount of olive oil (we need extra oil only for the first pancake!)
5 Fry pancakes until golden at medium heat 1-2 minutes each side
6 Serve the pancakes with smoked salmon, acacia honey and raspberries
7 Enjoy and have a great sunny Saturday !

Side note: These beautiful guys might be capricious as many beautiful creates are… That is why it is important to choose the right heat level when cooking them, but after a couple of failures you will be on the right road to their hearts 🙂

Salmon with Quince and Rice: quick and delicious lunch !

See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course.

Eiji Yoshikawa
Salmon with Quince and Rice

Ingredients (2 servings):
– 180g salmon
– 2 fresh quinces
– 120g white rice mixed with wild rice
– 3 garlic cloves
– 2 tbsp butter for cooking quinces
– 1tbsp olive oil for cooking salmon
– a few sprigs of parsley for serving
– 1/4 tsp salt
– 1/4 tsp black pepper

Method:
1 Salmon:
1.1 Wash salmon and absorb extra water with paper towels
1.2 Chop garlic cloves
1.3 Cook it for 4-5 minutes each side until golden in olive oil
1.4 Add chopped garlic cloves to the skillet 2 minutes before salmon is ready
2 Quinces:
2.1 Wash quinces and de-seed them
2.2 Slice quinces into 0.3-0.5 cm width pieces
2.3 Melt butter in the skillet
2.4 Stew quince slices for 15 minutes in butter at medium heat
3 Rice: boil it per instruction in salty water
4 Serve cooked salmon and quinces over the boiled rice: season with salt & pepper and decorate with chopped parsley
5 Enjoy!

Rye-bread tuna sandwiches !

Ce fut le temps sous de clairs ciels…

Paul Verlaine
Rye-bread tuna sandwiches

Ingredients (2 servings):
– 130g canned tuna fish
– 120g Almette or another soft creamy cheese
– 1/2 chopped onion
– 1/2 finely chopped dill bunch
– 1 teaspoon lemon juice
– 1 teaspoon mayonnaise
– pinch of salt & a bit of black pepper
– 6-8 triangle slices of rye bread
– one sprig of green onions for serving

Method:
1 Prepare tuna mixture = tuna fish + cheese + chopped onion + chopped dill + mayonnaise + lemon juice + salt + pepper
2 Cut rye bread into triangle slices and toast them if you prefer them toasted 😉
3 Put the tuna mixture on the slices, enjoy it and have a great Sunday !