Salmon Mousse Recipes

SALMON MOUSSE

Steps:

• Place 3 tablespoons cold water in a small saucepan, and sprinkle with gelatin; let soften, 5 minutes. Gently heat over low, stirring, just until gelatin dissolves; set aside.
• In the bowl of a food processor, combine salmon, sour cream, and lemon juice. Puree until smooth; season with salt. With motor running, add slightly cooled gelatin mixture, and blend until combined.
• Pour into two 8-ounce ramekins or bowls. Without touching surface, cover container with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm but spreadable, about 2 hours or up to overnight. Garnish mousse with dill, if desired, and serve with crackers or baguette slices.

SALMON MOUSSE

Steps:

• Combine the salmon mixture and gelatin: Add the dissolved gelatin to the salmon mixture and mix well.
• Chill: Pour the mixture into a decorative mold or into serving bowls and refrigerate for 6 hours, or until firm.
• Unmold: If using a decorative mold, unmold the salmon mousse by placing the bottom of the mold in hot water for a few seconds and turn the mold over onto a large serving dish to release the mousse. The surface of the mousse may appear a bit ragged. If you cover with plastic wrap and re-chill in the refrigerator, it should become smoother. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve salmon mousse with sliced avocados, celery sticks, lettuce leaves, tomatoes, olives, slices of baguette, and/or crackers.

SALMON MOUSSE CUPS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add flour and mix well. Shape into 24 balls; press onto the bottom and up the sides of greased miniature muffin cups. , Bake at 350° for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., For filling, in a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Add the salmon, broth, sour cream, onion, lemon juice and salt until blended. Spoon into the shells. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Sprinkle with dill.

SMOKED SALMON MOUSSE

Steps:

• Place smoked salmon in a blender or food processor, and blend until smooth. Mix in heavy cream, cream cheese, juice of half of a lemon, dried dill weed, salt and pepper. Blend to desired consistency. Transfer to a medium serving dish, and garnish with salmon roe.

SMOKED SALMON MOUSSE

Steps:

• Cut the butter into cubes and melt it in a saucepan over low heat. Remove from the heat and set aside for a few minutes to cool and to allow the milky solids to sink to the bottom. Carefully pour off the oily part, or clarified butter, leaving the milky solids behind. Let the clarified butter cool to room temperature.
• In 2 or three batches, put the salmon cubes, clarified butter, and cream in the bowl of a food processor, and puree until fluffy and completely smooth. Transfer the salmon puree to a large bowl and stir in the herbs and lemon juice to taste. Chill before serving.

SALMON MOUSSE

Steps:

• Place fish in bowl of a food processor or blender. Add nutmeg, cayenne, salt and pepper. Using chopping blade, blend for about 15 seconds. As blade turns, add egg, then the cream. Blend a few seconds more until smooth.
• With pastry brush, butter a two- quart steam pot and press the mixture evenly into it. Smooth top with a rubber spatula. Cover, place steam pot over boiling water and steam over high heat for about 20 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 140 degrees.
• Remove and invert mousse onto serving dish and serve with a sauce. (A beurre blanc, mushrooom sauce with sherry or a tarragon-cream sauce is appropriate).

SALMON MOUSSE

Steps:

• Sprinkle gelatine over water in a small saucepan.
• Soak 2 minutes.
• Add salt, sugar, mustard and vinegar.
• Stir constanly over low heat until gelatine in dissolved.
• Remove from heat and chill till the consistency of egg white, don't over chill!
• Add to salmon, capers and celery, mix well.
• Fold in the whipped cream.
• Turn into wetted mould, or individual moulds, and chill till set.
• Unmould and serve with salad greens and sour cream dressing.
• Mix all dressing ingredients together and chill.

SUPER EASY SALMON MOUSSE - MARTHA STEWART

Steps:

• Place 3 tablespoons cold water in a small saucepan, and sprinkle with gelatin; let soften, 5 minutes. Gently heat over low, stirring, just until gelatin dissolves; set aside.
• In the bowl of a food processor, combine salmon, sour cream, and lemon juice. Puree until smooth; season with salt. With motor running, add slightly cooled gelatin mixture, and blend until combined.
• Pour into two 8-ounce ramekins or bowls. Without touching surface, cover container with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until firm but spreadable, about 2 hours or up to overnight.
• Garnish mousse with dill or capers, if desired, and serve with crackers or baguette slices.

SALMON MOUSSE

Steps:

• Scald milk and set aside. In a saucepan over low heat, melt 3 tablespoons butter. Add flour to melted butter and cook, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon, 2 to 3 minutes, until the mixture is very thick. Add the scalded milk, all at once, and beat with a wire whisk over low heat for 5 minutes more, until the bechamel is thick and smooth. Add salt, pepper and cayenne, remove from heat and set aside to cool until lukewarm.
• Skin and bone salmon meat and flake with a fork. Cut remaining butter into chunks. Add salmon and butter to bechamel and mix well, using an electric beater rather than a blender or processor.
• Add cream and Cognac to salmon mixture and blend thoroughly. Taste for seasoning, adding more salt, pepper or cayenne if necessary.
• Refrigerate, covered, until the mixture has thickened sufficiently to allow piping through a pastry bag and tube - 2 to 3 hours, or overnight.
• While the mixture is cooling, remove tops from tomatoes and scoop out flesh. Stand tomatoes upside down on a rack to drain. When the salmon mixture is ready, pipe it into the hollowed-out tomatoes and top with a few grains of red salmon roe. Extra mousse can be served in a bowl topped with more roe.