Best Smoked Salmon Loaf Recipe

Salmon loaf is one of the best savory cakes filled with salmon, green olives, cheese, and green onion. Serve this colorful appetizer for brunch or dinner. Guests' oohing and ahhing are guaranteed!

This Salmon cake is inratable! To tell the truth, this my first savoury loaf cake. What is my conclusion? It is a one-bowl recipe made in one hour. The cake is an excellent appetizer or a snack. It could be perfectly served as an addition to a seafood platter. What's more? Colorful slices delight your eyes and make your mouth watering. Finally, this cake is healthy due to Omega-3 fatty acids in salmon and flaxseed.

WHY FLAXSEED IS GOOD FOR YOU

Flaxseed is high in Omega-3 essential fatty acids, lignans and fiber. According to recent studies, flaxseed may have a protective effect against prostate cancer, breast cancer and colon cancer. Several studies have suggested that flaxseed may reduce inflammation, normalize the heartbeat and has blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering effects. How much flaxseed do you need if it is so healthy? One to two tablespoons of ground flaxseed a day is the suggested dose to get full benefits of flaxseed.

WHY CLARIFIED BUTTER IS BETTER

There is one ingredient of the recipe - Clarified butter - that is wildly used by the French chef Nicolas Bernardé in his recipes. Clarified butter is a pure butterfat with removed water and milk solids. Clarified butter has a higher smoke point (somewhere around 400+ degrees F) than regular butter; so, it is more stable. It is perfect to make deep sautés, fries without risk of burning. It is rarely used in baking, but if a chef's recipe calls for it, just use it. Clarified butter brings slight nutty, toasted flavor to baking goodies!

HOW TO MAKE CLARIFIED BUTTER

You can buy clarified butter in a food store, but it is easy enough to clarify your own butter at home. It takes about ten minutes of your free time. Just melt the butter over medium heat, bring to a boil. Once the bubbling activity comes down, strain the remaining liquid through cheesecloth or a coffee filter to remove the milk solids. Do not over cook till you get solids browned (caramelized); otherwise, you will get another type of clarified butter - Ghee. Expect to lose about 25% in volume once the butter is clarified. Sore clarified butter in a covered jar without refrigeration for up to six months.

HOW TO MAKE SALMON CAKES

The chef's recipe allows you to make a loaf of the Salmon cake. It is an easy
one-bowl recipe. You do not even need a stand mixer or an electric mixer. You only need a large bowl, a rubber spatula and/or a hand whisk. It takes 20 minutes to make the cake butter and pour it into a cake pan. The rest is baking. If you want to serve individual cakes, use a muffin mold to make delicious and colorful mini Salmon cakes.

HOW TO STORE SALMON LOAF

Store the Salmon loaf in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week, although try to enjoy the cake within the first three to five days. It is best served on the day of making.

Ingredients:

For the cake batter:

• 250 g flour
• 15 g baking powder
• 250 g eggs
• 75 g clarified butter
• 75 g grape seed oil
• 200 g whole milk
• 5 g salt 
• 50 g green onions
• 150 g Emmental cheese
• 75 g smoked salmon
• 75 g fresh salmon
• 100 g pitted green olives
• 60 g Gruyère cheese
• 60 g brown flaxseed

For the decoration:

• Smoked salmon
• Lemon
• Caviar
• Black sesame
• Leek shoots

Instructions:

Heat oven to 320 degrees F/160 C. In a large bowl, sift the flour and baking powder. Add eggs and mix with a hand whisk.

Add the clarified butter at 50 C and grape seed oil and combine with a rubber spatula.

Pour the milk and add salt, mix everything well. Then add flaxseed...

grated Emmental cheese and combine.

Finally, add fresh and smoked salmon cut into pieces, chopped green onions and chopped green olives...

mix jut to combine.

Pour the cake batter into a buttered and floured cake pan...

sprinkle with grated Gruyère cheese...

and bake at 320 F/160 C for 10 minutes. Then lower oven temperature to 285 C/140 c and bake for 30 minutes longer. Watch for the gold color of the cheese on top of the cake!

Once the Salmon cake is ready, remove it from the cake pan and let it cool on a rack. Decorate the cake before serving, using slices of smoked salmon, lemon slices, caviar, black sesame and leek or clover shoots.

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The nutritional information has been calculated using an online recipe nutrition calculator such as Verywellfit.com and is intended for informational purposes only. These figures should be used as a general guideline and not be construed as a guarantee.

The recipe was adapted from https://www.cestmafournee.com/. All posted pictures are mine.