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Swedish Toast Skagen: 2 ways!

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Swedish Toast Skagen 2 Ways
  • Author: Delphine Fortin
  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Cook Time: 2 mins
  • Total Time: 17 mins
  • Yield: 4 servings 1x
  • Category: Appetizer
  • Cuisine: Swedish recipes

Toast Skagen, a prawns/shrimp salad served on toast, is an absolute classic from Sweden that you find everywhere. This version is served onto rye bread, with 2 suggesting presentations: on a toast or in a jar.

Ingredients

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For the prawn/shrimp salad:

  • 4 Tablespoons mayonnaise
  • 4 Tablespoons sour cream
  • 1/2 teaspoon mustard
  • 1/2 lemon, zest and juice
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 Tablespoons finely chopped dill
  • 1/4 red onion, minced (optional)
  • 300 g (11 oz) prawns/shrimps, peeled
  • 2 Tablespoons (25g) unsalted butter
  • Rye bread, sliced*

To serve:

  • Dill, for garnish
  • Fish roe (optional)
  • Lemon slices or wedges

Instructions

  1. In a large mixing bowl, mix the mayonnaise, sour cream, mustard, lemon juice and zest, salt and pepper. Add the one of the other ingredients mentioned in the Note for an even tastier cream. Add the dill, red onion, and the prawns. Gently fold together. Adjust seasoning if needed, and keep refrigerated until ready to serve.
  2. Ten minutes before serving, melt the butter in a large frying pan, add the bread slices and fry until golden brown on both sides.
  3. Serving suggestion 1: the prawn/shrimp mixture piled on top of the fried bread and garnish with a dollop of caviar (roe), a sprig of dill and a lemon wedge. Serving suggestion 2: place bread slices at the bottom of a glass jar, top with the prawn/shrimp salad mixture, add fresh dill, lemon and red onion slices, and dip in some additional toasted bread.

Notes

Note: you can also add to your shrimp salad 1/2 teaspoon brandy or cognac,
1/2 teaspoon horseradish cream or grated horseradish, or why not a few drops of Tabasco or a pinch of cayenne pepper.

* The traditional recipe calls for white bread, preferably sourdough. I went here for rye bread instead as a simple matter of taste preference.

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