Smoked salmon cucumber bites
15 min · 15 g protein · 136 cals / serving
Cold, crisp cucumber rounds topped with a swirl of lemony dill cream cheese, a ribbon of silky smoked salmon and a couple of salty capers. They taste like a bagel with lox, minus the bagel, and the cucumber snaps with every bite.
Ingredients
- 1 English cucumber cucumber, cut into 1 cm (⅓-inch) rounds, about 20
Dill cream
- 3 tbsp nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 1/2 tbsp light cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/2 tbsp fat free cream cheese, softened
- 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped, plus sprigs to finish
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- a few grinds black pepper
- 3 1/2 oz smoked salmon, torn into strips
- 1 tbsp capers, drained
- a few thin slivers red onions (optional)
Steps
- Pat the cucumber rounds dry on paper towels and lay them out on a board or platter.
- Beat the yogurt, both cream cheeses, chopped dill, lemon zest and pepper together until smooth. Spoon or pipe a small dollop onto each round.
- Drape a strip of salmon over each dollop in a loose fold, then top with a caper or two, a sliver of red onion and a little sprig of dill. Serve cold, within an hour.
Good to know
Make ahead?
Mix the dill cream up to two days ahead and keep it covered in the fridge. Slice and assemble just before serving, since cut cucumber weeps after an hour or so and the bites slide around.
Swaps?
Hot-smoked salmon flaked into the cream makes a richer, smokier version, at about 68 instead of 82. For a crowd, a squeeze of lemon and a pinch of everything-bagel seasoning over the platter is a quick extra.
Per
- Calories
- 60
- Protein
- (46%)
- 7 g
- Fat
- (34%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (20%)
- 3 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- <1 g
- Sodium
- 246 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, 271 kcal goes into the pot and 465 g of ingredients comes out as about 455 g of food: 60 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.