Smoked salmon and cottage cheese plate
20 min · 38 g protein · 330 cals / serving
A cold, no-cook plate: a big spoonful of creamy cottage cheese with dill, lemon and black pepper, silky folds of smoked salmon, a halved boiled egg, crunchy cucumber, radishes and tomatoes, a few capers and slivers of red onion, and one rye crispbread to load up. Salty, fresh and done in ten minutes.
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cups cottage cheese (1%), 1% or 2%
- 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped, plus sprigs
- 1/2 tsp lemon zest
- a few grinds black pepper
- 4 oz smoked salmon
- 1/2 large cucumber, sliced
- 6 radishes, halved or sliced
- 8 cherry tomatoes, halved
- a few slivers red onions
- 1 tbsp capers, drained
- 1/2 lemon, in wedges
Steps
- Lower the eggs into boiling water and cook 8 minutes, then cool them in cold water, peel and halve.
- Stir the cottage cheese with the chopped dill, lemon zest and pepper.
- Spoon the cottage cheese onto two plates and arrange the salmon, eggs, cucumber, radishes and tomatoes around it. Scatter the onion and capers over, tuck in the lemon wedges and dill sprigs, and add a crispbread to each plate.
Good to know
Not keen on cottage cheese curds?
Blend it for 30 seconds into a smooth, whipped spread before adding the dill. It tastes like a light cream cheese.
Make it ahead?
Boil the eggs and mix the dill cottage cheese up to 3 days ahead. Then it is a 3-minute plate, or a packed lunch with the crispbread kept separate so it stays crunchy.
Gentler?
Leave out the onion and capers and use hot-smoked or poached salmon flakes, which are milder than cold-smoked. With hot-smoked salmon it is a little richer: a score of about 68 instead of 77.
Per
- Calories
- 78
- Protein
- (48%)
- 9 g
- Fat
- (28%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (25%)
- 5 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 293 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
As written, 660 kcal goes into the pot and 941 g of ingredients comes out as about 850 g of food: 78 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.