Avocado Mousse and Cured Salmon Tartare
Cured salmon over a base of avocado mousse.
Equipment
- 1 hand blender
- 1 cooking ring.
Ingredients
- 1 large avocado
- 4 cherry tomatoes without pulp
- ½ green onion
- 1 tbsp cream cheese
- Salt to taste
- Black pepper to taste
- 1 splash olive oil
- 70 grams cured salmon (2.46oz) (It could be gravlax or whatever you want)
- 1 sachet unflavored gelatin
- ½ lime zest (Optional)
- Mint leaves (For decoration)
Instructions
- Mousse:Blend the avocado, tomato, scallion, salt and pepper with a hand blender. Once a uniform paste is achieved.1 large avocado, 4 cherry tomatoes without pulp, ½ green onion, Salt to taste, Black pepper to taste
- Add the cream cheese and stir gently until the mixture is integrated.1 tbsp cream cheese
- Add the dissolved gelatin and mix gently for a few minutes until you obtain a uniform paste again.1 sachet unflavored gelatin
- Pour a few centimeters of avocado mousse into a cooking ring. No more than half of the cooking ring, but that's to your liking.
- Reserve in the refrigerator until it has the desired consistency and hardness.
- For the salmon:Gravlax or cured pink salmon can be used to your preference. Although as we said, originally fresh uncured salmon is used.If you use fresh salmon, it is VERY important to buy it from a trusted fishmonger and be sure that it is really fresh.70 grams cured salmon
- Cut the salmon into slices about 1 cm thick and then into cubes.When using cured salmon it is not necessary to add anything to it. In case of using fresh salmon, you can add some seasoning, fine leek strands or scallions or whatever you want.
- Peel off the avocado from the cooking ring with a fine, blunt knife.With a finger, moisten the inside of the cooking ring with olive oil to be able to unmold easily.
- Then, over avocado in the Cooking ring, put the salmon cubes pressing gently until the content is even but without exceeding the force.
- Remove the cooking ring and decorate.
- To decorate you can use avocado, dill, mint or whatever you want.In this case, we decorate with a smaller avocado mousse disc previously prepared in another cooking ring and a mint leaf.Optionally you can decorate with lime zest too.We finish the dish with a few threads of flavored olive oil.1 splash olive oil, ½ lime zest, Mint leaves
- Ready. Enjoy!
Notes
How to check if salmon is fresh:
- Color must be an intense orange or pink, which must under no circumstances be pale or opaque.
- Check if you can see dark or white spots on their meat.
- Don't smell like ammonia.
- Fresh salmon should always be firm and should not fall apart when handled.