Smoked salmon melba toasts

3
Points®
Total Time
5 min
Prep
5 min
Cook
0 min
Serves
1
Difficulty
Easy
This is not your mother's snack! Five simple ingredients assembled in five easy minutes make a wonderful no-cook appetizer or snack, any time of the day or year. Luscious cream cheese on crispy melba toast makes a wonderful bed for the smokey salmon, cool cucumber slices and bite of red onion. Crunchy, fresh and so delicious, you may want to serve this as the opener to your next dinner party. Divide the elements onto a small serving plate with nuts, dips and other crackers for a delightful upgrade to your charcuterie board.

Ingredients

Low fat cream cheese

1 Tbsp, or Neufchatel

Melba toast

5 slice(s)

Cucumber

2 Tbsp, finely chopped, seedless

Red onion

1 Tbsp, chopped, finely chopped

Smoked salmon, lox

½ oz, thinly sliced, cut into strips

Instructions

  1. Spread the cheese on the toast rounds. Top with the cucumber, onion, and salmon.

Notes

Smoked salmon is salmon that has been cured through a smoking process in either hot or cool temperatures. Hot-smoking takes from 6 to 12 hours, cold-smoking from 1 day up to 3 weeks. So what’s lox? It’s salmon that has been cold-smoked and cured in brine (sometimes with added sugar).