Smoked Salmon Paté

Smoked Salmon Paté can be whizzed up in minutes. Flavoured with lemon and made smooth with cream cheese, it’s an easily made treat. Serve with vegetable crudités, bread sticks or on toast. Impressive as a topping for canapés too.

SUPER-FAST SMOKED SALMON PATé

Smoked Salmon Paté is ridiculously easy. So easy that, were it not for tasting incredible, I’d almost be too embarrassed to post a recipe for it.

But it’s so good, it would be criminal for anyone out there not to know about it.

The only other ingredients you need for this knock-out paté are: cream cheese, a little plain yogurt to lighten it, lemon juice and black pepper. That’s it. There’s next to no preparation, although you’ll need a food processor or stick blender to create this creamy, smoky delight.

The paté is whizzed up so fast, you can even make it before you go to work for your lunchbox. Throw in some cherry tomatoes, a few carrot, pepper and celery sticks plus radishes and you’ve got a lunch your workmates will envy.

But I think Smoked Salmon Paté tastes good enough for special occasions too. Besides serving with crudités, you can spread some of the creamy loveliness on crackers, canapé-style, perhaps topped with a little morsel of smoked salmon.

My Easy Homemade Crackers are ideal for this. Quickly made, you can avoid the palm-oil found in so many shop bought savoury biscuits and they stay fresh for up to 2 weeks. Try some of them topped with creamy, smoky roasted aubergine Baba Ganoush too.

Variations

Although the basic recipe hardly needs improving, here’s a few suggestions if you fancy ringing the changes:

• Stir fresh, chopped herbs into the finished pate e.g. chives, dill.
• Add 1-2 teaspoons of horseradish sauce.
• Whizz in a little smoked paprika to intensify the smokiness.
• To make the paté richer, replace the yogurt with double cream.

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Smoked Salmon Pate

Smoked Salmon Paté can be whizzed up in minutes. Flavoured with lemon and made smooth with cream cheese, it's an easily made treat. Serve with vegetable crudités, bread sticks or on toast. Impressive as a topping for canapés too.

Course Appetizer, Starter, Lunch, Light Meal

Keyword smoked salmon pate

Prep Time 5 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Servings 4

Ingredients

• 150 g cream cheese
• 25 g natural yogurt
• 120 g smoked salmon
• 1 small lemon, juice only
• freshly ground black pepper
• salt optional

Instructions

1. Put the cream cheese, yogurt and smoked salmon in a food processor or put in a suitable vessel if using a stick blender. Add the juice of half the lemon and a good grind of black pepper.
   

2. Blend until smooth. Taste and add more lemon, pepper and a pinch of salt if needed.
   

3. Serve with crudités, breadsticks, on toast or as a topping for canapes.