Recipe: Caviar Baskets


• By
• Caren McSherry [3]

Image by Flickr/Rowen Atkinson [4]
Caviar canapes with cream cheese

These caviar canapes make a perfect appetizer for an elegant party or dinner gathering

Ingredients

• 8 ounces soft cream cheese

• 1 small shallot, 
chopped very fine

• 2 lemons, firm without blemishes

• 1 loaf sliced white bread

• 60 grams caviar (or good-quality lumpfish roe)

• Snipped chives, for garnish



Instructions

1. Whip the cream cheese together with the shallot.
2. Spoon mixture into a piping bag fitted with a star nozzle and set aside.
3. Using a channel knife, take long strips of peel off the lemons and set the strips aside.
4. Using a 1-1/2-inch round cookie cutter, cut circles from the bread slices.
5. Spread a thin layer of caviar over each bread round, leaving the edge clean.
6. Carefully pipe a ring of the cream cheese and shallot mixture around the edge of each bread round.
7. Finish the canapé by placing a lemon strip on each side of the round creating a handle.
8. Garnish with a snip of chive.
9. Chill until serving time.

Makes 24 baskets.

Recipe courtesy Caren McSherry from the Gourmet Warehouse


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