Special Occasion Smoked Bluefish Pate Recipes

This easy recipe is a classic holiday standby. Smoked bluefish is blended into a creamy, zesty spread. Smoked salmon or tuna may be substituted for bluefish. Serve with crackers.

Provided by MARBALET

Categories     Appetizers and Snacks     Dips and Spreads Recipes     Pate Recipes

Time 6h20m

Yield 16

Number Of Ingredients 4

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 64.9 calories, Carbohydrate 0.5 g, Cholesterol 20.1 mg, Fat 5 g, Protein 4.4 g, SaturatedFat 3.1 g, Sodium 199.2 mg, Sugar 0.1 g

Bluefish is not a famous table fish; it is inexpensive and widely available, but you don't see it in restaurants often, even in this ravaged-ocean, sell-anything era. (Some states have issued advisories limiting its consumption, citing high levels of PCBs in the meat.) The knock on it is it's oily, it's "fishy." Its dark, compact meat is for cats, not fine, upstanding people like us. How untrue - and demonstrably so, as the following recipe will show! A fresh-caught bluefish of moderate weight, quickly cleaned and kept on ice, is as fine an eating fish as American waters produce. Alan Davidson, the British seafood don, says much the same in his indispensable "North Atlantic Seafood," albeit in a different accent: "It does not keep very well," reads Davidson's entry for Pomatomus saltatrix, "but, if bought and cooked with dispatch, offers firm flesh of an excellent taste." Bluefish, in short, is an excellent protein. Some words about what you're dealing with: dense meat with an off-white, almost gray hue, the pork shoulder of seafood. Bluefish lends itself to tough treatment: smoking, for instance, or slow-poaching in oil.

Provided by Sam Sifton

Categories     appetizer

Time 25m

Yield Makes about 1 1/2 cups

Number Of Ingredients 16

• Ingredients

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Yield Makes about 1 1/2 cups

Number Of Ingredients 6

• Ingredients

Provided by Jane Doerfer

Categories     Condiment/Spread     Sauce     Food Processor     Fish     Appetizer     No-Cook     Quick & Easy     Seafood     Sugar Conscious     Peanut Free     Soy Free     Kosher

Yield makes about 4 cups

Number Of Ingredients 10

• Ingredients

Smoked bluefish gives a wonderful flavor to this recipe. Serve it as a dip or spread with crackers, bread or vegetables. The pate can be made milder by the addition of more mascarpone or cream cheese.

Provided by Karen C.

Categories     Appetizers and Snacks     Dips and Spreads Recipes     Pate Recipes

Time 15m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 8

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 98.8 calories, Carbohydrate 0.9 g, Cholesterol 34.2 mg, Fat 7.7 g, Fiber 0.1 g, Protein 6.8 g, SaturatedFat 3.8 g, Sodium 46.2 mg, Sugar 0.3 g