Cooking with Marielle

Salmon Filled Cucumber Boats

Filled with a lemon and dill infused cream cheese topped with smoked salmon roses.
In this episode of #CookingWithWineWorld, Marielle of Hooked Barbados shares a quick and easy recipe to impress your house guests, topped off with a lovely Santa Margherita Prosecco, available at Wine World.

How to prepare this dish

Ingredients:

  • 1 packet cream cheese your choice
  • Zest of one lemon
  • Juice from two lemons
  • 4 oz of smoked salmon, cut into 2 inch strips
  • 24 slices of cucumber, cut into ¾ inch thick slices
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4⁄5 of a garlic pod
  • Sprinkle of black pepper and salt
  • Toss in your favourite herb -
  • Cilantro
  • Dill * (chef's favourite)
  • Parsley

Instructions:

Add all these ingredients to a blitzer and blitz! Meantime slice your cucumber rounds -deep enough that you can make a small carve out by the seed for the cream cheese to go on. Then final step is to make your smoked salmon roses and assemble into cucumber rounds with your lemon and dill infused cream cheese. Enjoy!

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