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Smoked Trout Canapes with Summer Cocktail

Preparation time:
45 mins
Cooking time:
7 mins
Serves:
8
Recipe provided by: New Idea
Rating:
Try this deliciously light canape combination for your next summer soiree...

Ingredients

Cooking oil spray, for greasing
5 sheets filo pastry
50g butter, melted
300g traditional whole (wood) smoked trout
250g packet cream cheese, chopped
2 tsps finely grated lemon rind
1 tblsp lemon juice

1 tblsp finely chopped fresh chives

Summer Cocktail

2 cups apricot or peach nectar
2 x 750ml bottles sparkling wine, chilled
2 tsps grenadine

Method

1 Spray 28 holes of 3 x 12-hole mini muffin pans (1½ tblsp-capacity) with cooking oil.

2 Layer filo sheets together on a clean bench, brushing in between each layer with melted butter. Cut into 6cm-wide strips, then cut crossways into 6cm squares. Gently press squares into prepared pan holes.

3 Cook in a moderate oven (180C) for 6 to 7 minutes, or until lightly golden. Stand in pans for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.

4 Peel and discard skin from trout. Carefully remove flesh from one side and flake into small pieces. Turn over and flake the other side. Discard bones.

5 Process cream cheese, rind and juice in a food processor until smooth and creamy. Transfer mixture to a piping bag fitted
with a plain 1cm nozzle.

6 Just before serving, arrange pastry shells on a serving platter. Pipe in cream cheese mixture. Top with flaked trout. Sprinkle with chives.

7 To make summer cocktail, divide nectar evenly (about ¼ cup) among eight chilled champagne glasses. Fill glasses with sparkling wine. Pour a ¼ tsp grenadine gently down the inside edge of each glass (this prevents the drink from clouding).

8 Serve canapes with refreshing summer cocktail.

Source:
New Idea
Author:
Stylist:
Carolyn Fienberg
Photographer:
Oliver Ford & Andre Martin

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