You probably would never have heard of such a thing. Here it is:
You take canned health food store salmon. Drain, if in oil, use oil for something else maybe marinara sauce ingredient.
Add to canned salmon minced onion, crushed or granulated garlic, capers and some caper juice, a touch of tabasco or other hot sauce, a dash of dill pickle juice or minced dill pickle to taste; you could also do sweet pickle here.
Now for the mystery ingredient: minced cooked smoked bacon, and or some drippings, at least a tablespoon for a 12 oz can of salmon.
When you whirl this with a fork into a pate, voila, faux smoked salmon pate.
Most people who taste this will not tell the difference.
It is like what they call smoked fish spread, in which you can substitute other fish for salmon. Mackerel or sardines would be good. You could do this with leftover baked fried or broiled fish.
You could actually bake or broil fish under a layer of smoked bacon, to very good effect, call it smoked fish, remove the bacon before serving and fool your friends. Say you just heated up store bought smoked fish.
Trust me, they won't know the difference.
Many prepared foods are now spiked with what is called smoke flavor. This is just a way of doing that but not with smoke flavor.
You could actually bake or broil fish under a layer of smoked bacon, to very good effect, call it smoked fish, remove the bacon before serving and fool your friends. Say you just heated up store bought smoked fish.
Trust me, they won't know the difference.
Many prepared foods are now spiked with what is called smoke flavor. This is just a way of doing that but not with smoke flavor.
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