Smoked Salmon Spirals Recipes

SMOKED SALMON SPIRALS

Steps:

• Lay some plastic wrap on your work surface and arrange the salmon on top in a 12 x 8 inch rectangle.
• Mix cheese with dill and spread over salmon.
• Press row of capers into cheese along one long edge.
• Beginning at edge with capers, roll up jelly roll style to enclose capers in center.
• Wrap in plastic wrap, squeezing to form smooth cylinder, and twist ends closed.
• Freeze for at least 4 hours or up to 1 month.
• To serve, thaw roll for 10 minutes, slice thinly, and arrange on cucumber slices.
• Garnish with onion and dill.
• Let stand for 10 minutes at room temperature.

SMOKED SALMON PINWHEELS

Steps:

• In a small bowl combine cream cheese, dill, chives, and garlic powder. Mix until well-incorporated and creamy.
• Lay out both wraps and evenly spread the cream cheese onto each one, leaving about a half inch of room around the edges. Spread the cream cheese out to the edge on one side, as you'll use this side to "seal" the pinwheel.
• Evenly distribute the spinach between your two tortillas, followed by the smoked salmon.
• Tightly roll up each wrap, tucking in the ends as you go. It's important to roll these as tightly as possible so that the pinwheels stay together when cut.
• With a small serrated knife cut the edges off of each wrap, and then cut each one into ½ inch rounds. You should get about 14-16 pinwheels, 7-8 per wrap.
• Feel free to assemble as-is or stick a toothpick into each pinwheel to serve. Serves 4.

SMOKED SALMON, AVOCADO, AND HORSERADISH SPIRALS

Steps:

• In a small saucepan sprinkle the gelatin over the lemon juice, let it soften for 10 minutes, and heat the mixture over moderately low heat, stirring, until the gelatin is dissolved. In a food processor purée the avocado with the cream cheese, the horseradish, and the gelatin mixture until the mixture is smooth. Transfer the mixture to a bowl, set the bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water, and stir the mixture until it is thickened to the consistency of thick mayonnaise.
• Arrange the smoked salmon slices, overlapping them slightly, on a sheet of plastic wrap to form a 17- by 7-inch rectangle and spread them with the avocado mixture, leaving 1/2-inch border. Using the plastic wrap as an aid and beginning with a long side roll up the smoked salmon jelly-roll fashion, wrap it in the plastic wrap, and twist the ends of the plastic wrap closed. Chill the smoked salmon roll for 3 hours, or until it is frim and the filling is set.
• With a 1 1/2-inch round cutter cut out rounds from the pumpernickel, reserving the scraps for another use. Remove the plastic wrap from the salmon roll carefully on a cutting board and with and electric knife or other very sharp knife cut it crosswise int 1/4-inch slices. Arrange each salmon roll slice on a pumpernickel round and garnish each canapé with a parsley sprig and 2 short sections of chive. The canapés keep, covered tightly with plastic wrap and chilled, for 2 hours.

SMOKED SALMON SPIRALS

Steps:

• Using vegetable peeler, cut off thin 8x1-inch strips down length of daikon.
• Mix cream cheese, dill, parsley, capers, mustard, lemon peel and pepper in small bowl. Spread about 1 1/2 teaspoons mixture on 1 side of each radish strip. Top with salmon. Roll up tightly. Arrange spiral side up on platter. Garnish with cucumber, dill and lemon.