Prep Time: 15 min.
These Cucumber Salmon Rolls are perfect for a refreshing, healthy lunch. They also make an elegant appetizer and snack.
You only need to chop up smoked salmon, avocado, chives, and cream cheese. Top the mixture onto cucumber strips smeared with cream cheese. Roll everything together and cut into slices.
Salmon cucumber rolls are so easy to make, and you can adjust this recipe in so many ways: feel free to add red onion, arugula, green onion, red peppers, more cucumber, dill, or even sushi rice.
If the chive bow is too complicated (and it took me a few tries to get right without breaking), top the rolls with sriracha mayo, black and white sesame seeds, or edible flowers instead.
Ingredients
- 100 grams smoked salmon
- mandolin
- cling film
- 1 avocado
- 4 tablespoons cream cheese
- 1 cucumber
- half a lemon
- fresh chives
- sea salt
- pepper
Instructions
1. Place the smoked salmon, avocado, 1 tablespoon fresh chopped chives, and half of the cream cheese on a chopping board.
2. Chop everything together (you decide how finely you want the mixture).
3. Slice thin strips of cucumber on a mandolin.
4. Dry off both sides of the strips on a paper towel.
5. Arrange the strips on top of a piece of cling film. You want the strips to overlap.
6. Top the cucumber strips with the remaining cream cheese.
7. Spoon the salmon cream cheese mixture on the bottom half of the strips. Keep the first inch free.
8. Squeeze the juice from half a lemon on top.
9. Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
10. Use the cling film to roll up the salmon and cucumber strips tightly.
11. Remove the cling film and slice the roll-ups.
12. Arrange them on a platter and top with chive bows or chopped chives.
13. Serve.
