Don’t cucumber salmon bites just sound wonderful? Whether as a snack, as an appetizer or for the buffet at a summer party, the rolls are always perfect. How can you prepare them quickly and easily?
Admittedly, salmon is always possible, but cold smoked salmon is probably one of the best ingredients for any dish in the summer. Combined with crunchy, juicy cucumbers you can make refreshing and light snackscreate cold appetizerby simply spreading the ingredients with cream cheese and rolling them up.
Cucumber salmon bites with cream cheese – the easy recipe
For theCucumber salmon bites with cream cheese and salmon not only require a few ingredients, but in a short time you get a few delicacies that everyone will love.A great last minute recipefor every occasion (or without)!
Ingredients for the fresh cucumber rolls
For 2 servings of finger food with cucumber:
- 1 medium cucumber
- 55 g smoked salmon
- 3 tbsp cream cheese
- 1 tbsp fresh, chopped parsley (or alternatively dill)
- optional Feta
- 1 teaspoon each of white and black sesame
- toothpick
Prepare cucumber salmon bites
- Using a vegetable peeler, cut the cucumber lengthwise into thin strips (do not use a vegetable peeler to avoid making the strips too thin).
- Lay them side by side on a wooden board, with each strip slightly overlapping each other.
- Spread the cucumbers with the cream cheese.
- Spread the salmon over it.
- Starting from one of the two narrower sides, roll the layered ingredients into a roll. Beforehand, if you want, you can place a stick of feta along this edge and roll it up.
- Pin the roll together with toothpicks to prevent it from rolling up again (one toothpick should be enough for each future roll).
- Then cut the roll into smaller cucumber salmon bites and spread them lying down on a plate.
- Finally, sprinkle the salmon bites with cream cheese and sesame seeds.
You can have the salmon bites asServe finger foodand enjoy immediately.
You can also roll up each cucumber strip separately, which takes more time, but is definitely an option for a few portions.
In any case, the recipe is quick and easy to make and couldn't be better suited to a light summer menu.
