Cucumber smoked salmon lollipops – something different for a dinner party, something beautiful for your guests to feast their eyes on while you continue to prepare a sensational meal or mix cocktails. Cucumber smoked salmon lollipops are so easy to make and an absolute delight in the mouth. Raw ingredients, which adds very little to your calorie intake and a great alternative to a basic salad – you must make these. 

Cucumber and Smoked Salmon Lollipops

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Cucumber and Smoked Salmon Lollipops

Cucumber and smoked salmon with pickled sweet peppers, tomato and avocado
Prep Time20 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Servings: 4
Author: Viella

Ingredients

Sweet pickled peppers

  • 6 mini sweet peppers
  • 2 cups white wine vinegar
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 4 cloves garlic thinly sliced
  • 1 scallion thinly sliced
  • 1 tsp salt

Cucumber and Smoked Salmon Lollipops

  • 1/2 large greenhouse cucumber
  • 4 oz smoked salmon
  • 6 mini sweet peppers pickled and sliced
  • 2 roma/plum tomatoes
  • 1 haas avocado
  • Salt to taste
  • Lemon wedge
  • 20 skewers

Instructions

  • Pour vinegar into a pan and add salt, sugar, garlic and scallion heat to boil. Once boiled, transfer to a heat-proof bowl
  • Remove stalks and seeds from peppers and then thinly slice
  • Add sliced peppers to warm vinegar mixture, cover and set aside for two hours
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  • Continue with recipe once your peppers have a pickled taste but still have a nice bite to them
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  • Using a mandolin, slice the cucumber, using long strokes so that you achieve long wide strips of cucumber
  • Slice smoked salmon into 1/4 inch strips
  • Cut the top off your tomatoes and scoop out the seeds, then thinly slice to similar dimensions as the mini sweet peppers
  • Peel and slice avocado
  • Once you have your ingredients prepared begin to create your lollipops

How to create lollipops

  • Lay out cucumber slices, top with smoked salmon, pickled sweet mini peppers, tomato and avocado, roll into a wheel and then secure with a skewer.
  • Repeat until all lollipop ingredients are combined
  • Finish with a some lemon juice squeezed from a lemon wedge and a touch of salt and pepper to taste