Quick and Easy Canned Salmon Cream Cheese Toast Recipe

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This Canned Salmon Cream Cheese Toast is the perfect example of simple ingredients coming together to create something truly delicious. This easy recipe is so quick – ready in 5 minutes with only 4 basic ingredients – bread, canned salmon, cream cheese and fresh or dried herbs. It’s an easy yet elegant solution for breakfast, brunch, a light lunch or dinner, or an elegant appetizer for a large gathering —a simple salmon toast that transports you to a cozy Baltic seaside café with every bite.

This protein-packed, flavorful topping works on any bread you have on hand. And with the perfect balance of creamy texture and herbs, it’s a recipe you’ll reach for again and again when you need something quick and delicious.

This Canned Salmon Cream Cheese Toast celebrates the flavors of the Baltic Sea that shaped my culinary heritage. Salmon, a treasured resource of Nordic coastal communities, pairs perfectly with fresh dill—the signature herb of Baltic cuisine that grows abundantly in the cool northern climate. This salmon cream cheese toast recipe is one of my families top recipes.

Ingredients for Salmon Cream Cheese Toast

• Sourdough bread, dark rye, wholemeal, or any other bread of choice
• Canned Salmon – Red salmon has a milder flavor, but you can use pink salmon as well. For additional elegance, add in an additional small can of canned crab meat. And yes, you can also use cooked fresh salmon.
• Cream cheese – Full fat tastes best, but you can use low fat or use herbed cream cheese as well.
• Fresh herbs such as fresh dill, chives, spring onion
• Sea salt and black pepper to taste

Additions and Substitutions

• Canned red salmon – you can use pink salmon, leftover cooked fresh salmon or add some canned crab meat for extra elegance
• Bread – I like toasted baguette or toasted dark rye bread, but you can use any kind of bread and plain white toast is yum too. Crackers also work well. And if you are in a rush or have really nice fresh bread, you can not toast your bread.
• Fresh herbs – I like to use a combination of fresh dill, chives, parsley and spring onion, but you can use just one of them. If you don’t have any fresh herbs, just use dried, but cut the amount by half.
• Smoked salmon – I sometimes place a small slice of smoked salmon on top of the cream cheese mixture and squeeze a bit of lemon juice on top to make smoked salmon toast.
• Cucumber slices – I sometimes top the salmon cream cheese toast with a slice of cucumber for extra crunch.

How to make Canned Salmon Cream Cheese Toast

• Slice your bread of choice and toast it. If I am preparing lots of toasts, I like to place my pieces of bread on a baking sheet in the oven. It’s quicker, and they all come out at the same time. We eat a lot of baguettes, as my husband is French, and I prefer to cut the baguettes across, rather than length-wise, as I think it looks prettier. And you can pile on a bigger dollop of the salmon cream cheese spread😉
• Wash and chop your herbs.
• Reserve one tablespoon of herbs for garnish.
• Place together all other ingredients in a small bowl and mix together.
• Put a dollop of the cream cheese mixture on your piece of toast and garnish with herbs. That’s it 😋

How to serve Cream Cheese Salmon Toasts

• Put the salmon and cream cheese topping in a small bowl and place on a wooden board with some little toasts and fresh herbs for that rustic cafe-style feel.
• These canned salmon with cream cheese toasts go really well with my fresh French-style carrot and cucumber salad or this cucumber beetroot salad with dill.
• Or use them to round out a soup meal – love them served with my Baltic asparagus dill soup or my broccoli asparagus soup.

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