Smoked salmon sandwich trees, served on a stick, a fun idea to serve for Christmas appetizers, but also for a special evening with your significant other, or simply for a night with friends. Perfect to serve with an aperitif, they are prepared in 5 minutes, quick without cooking, with sandwich bread filled with cheese like Philadelphia and smoked salmon. If you don’t like salmon, you can also replace it with cold cuts or instead of cheese you can prepare a few different spreads, such as a green olive pâté, or mushroom pâté.
Other appetizer ideas for the holidays with sandwich bread.
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Medium
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 10 pieces
- Cooking methods: No cooking
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Christmas
Ingredients for Smoked Salmon Sandwich Trees
- 4 slices sandwich bread
- 7 oz fresh cheese (spreadable)
- 7 oz smoked salmon
- to taste pistachio crumbs
- to taste hazelnut crumbs
- to taste lemon juice
Tools to Prepare Smoked Salmon Sandwich Trees
- Cutting Board
- Knife
Preparation of Salmon Sandwich Trees on a Stick
Divide the spreadable cheese into 2 bowls. Add hazelnut crumbs to one, and pistachio crumbs to the other. Mix.
Spread the cheese along the entire length of the bread. All 4 slices.
Fill 2 slices with smoked salmon, covering the entire surface. Close with the other cheese-spread slice, forming 2 large sandwiches.
On a cutting board, cut triangles, first one way and then the other, to create about 5 trees from every 2 slices of sandwich bread filled with creamy cheese and smoked salmon.
Insert a stick into each tree, press well, and place them on a tray. Spread a bit of cheese on the surface and decorate with hazelnut and pistachio crumbs. Serve immediately, or later, just keep them in the fridge wrapped in plastic wrap.
Of course, you can also fill them differently. The cheese helps keep the sandwich closed, so I would still use one unless you don’t care about keeping them on a stick. You can use stracchino, ricotta, or replace the salmon with anchovies, mortadella, but with a bit of creativity, it will be easy to fill them in a delicious way.
