This easy 20-minute smoked salmon mousse is made with cream cheese and served on cucumber slices. It's a simple recipe that produces impressive results!
This salmon mousse is an easy appetizer and one of those dishes your guests will admire, not realizing how easy it is to make. It's also great that you can make it ahead of time. Smoked salmon is a delicacy, and when mixed with cream cheese, it's even better. The cream cheese mitigates the saltiness of the smoked fish and adds creaminess.
Ingredients
See the recipe card for exact measurements. Here are my comments on some of the ingredients.
- Smoked salmon: I try to use wild-caught or responsibly farmed salmon.
- Cream cheese: I use full-fat cream cheese. Reduced-fat cream cheese works, too.
- Fresh lemon juice: Freshly squeezed has the best flavor.
- Cucumber: Sliced and used as a vehicle for serving the mousse.
- Chives: Used as a garnish. They are optional, but I do like the flavor they add, and they also look pretty. You can use chopped dill instead of chives.
Instructions
The detailed instructions and step-by-step photos are included in the recipe card. Here's a quick overview.
Place the smoked salmon, cream cheese, lemon juice, and black pepper in your food processor bowl. Process until smooth, about 5 minutes.
Transfer the mousse to a pretty serving bowl and serve it with cut-up veggies, or transfer the mixture to a pastry bag and pipe it onto cucumber slices.
Serve immediately, or chill for a few hours before serving.
Recipe Tips
- I don't add any salt to the mousse. Smoked salmon is very salty, so there's no need for added salt.
- You can use smoked mackerel, herring, or whitefish instead of salmon. Make sure you thoroughly remove the skin and bones, and keep in mind that the color won't be as pretty if using pale-colored fish.
- The lemon juice brightens the dish and adds a slight acidity to cut through the richness of the mousse. However, it can be successfully omitted.
- You can keep this mousse in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Remove it from the fridge 20 minutes before you plan on enjoying it. While you can technically freeze this mousse for up to three months, its texture won't be as light after it's been thawed.
Serving Suggestions
If you want to be fancy, you can use a pastry bag to pipe the mousse on cucumber slices. If you don't have a pastry bag, use kitchen scissors to cut the corner of a Ziploc bag and use that to pipe the mousse.
But you can also simply spoon the mousse on top of cucumber slices or serve it in a pretty bowl, surrounded by cut-up vegetables, almond flour crackers, and cheese crackers. It's very good with pork rinds, too!
For special occasions, I like to serve it alongside this creamy lobster salad.
Recipe Card
Easy Salmon Mousse Recipe
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Ingredients
- 4 ounces smoked salmon
- 8 ounces cream cheese - softened
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
Optional:
- 20 cucumber slices
- 2 tablespoons chives - chopped, for garnish
Instructions
- Place the salmon, cream cheese, lemon juice, and black pepper in your food processor bowl.
- Process until smooth, about 5 minutes, stopping twice to scrape the sides with a spatula.
- Transfer the mousse to a pretty serving bowl and serve it with cut-up veggies. Alternatively, transfer the mousse to a pastry bag and pipe it onto cucumber slices.
- Garnish with chopped chives and serve.
Notes
- The nutrition info includes cucumber and chives.
- I don't add any salt to the mousse. Smoked salmon is very salty, so there's no need for added salt.
- You can keep this mousse in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Remove it from the fridge 20 minutes before you plan on enjoying it. While you can technically freeze this mousse for up to three months, its texture won't be as light after it's been thawed.
Nutrition per Serving
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Glenyse says
would this be suitable for finger afternoon tea sandwiches pleas
Vered DeLeeuw says
Yes! Absolutely.