Sometimes it’s good to offer people something slightly nicer than a bag of crisps. These are dead easy to make but look impressively fancy.
Makes about 30 small canapés / Prep time: 10 minutes / Cook time: NIL
Ingredients
- 1 telegraph cucumber
- 1 cup mascarpone or cream cheese
- finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tsp mustard or horseradish sauce
- large handful of fresh dill or fennel fronds
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 150g smoked trout (or other smoked fish), broken into small pieces
Method
Peel some strips of skin from the cucumber and discard, leaving a pattern of green stripes behind. Cut the peeled cucumber into 1cm slices – you’ll end up with about 30 discs. Arrange on a platter. Beat together the mascarpone/cream cheese, lemon zest, mustard/horseradish and half the dill or fennel. Season with salt and pepper. Dollop spoonfuls of this mixture on top of each cucumber round, and top each one with a piece of smoked fish. Scatter the remaining herbs on top. Serve with drinks.
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Extracted from Homecooked by Lucy Corry, published by Penguin Random House NZ, RRP $55.00. Text © Lucy Corry 2021. Photography © Carolyn Robertson, 2021
