Trader Joe’s Lightly Smoked Salmon in a Kewpie & Capers Salad over Shiitake Mushroom Jasmine Rice with Sushi Vinegar marinated cucumbers
Trader Joe’s Lightly Smoked Salmon in a Kewpie & Capers Salad over Shiitake Mushroom Jasmine Rice with Sushi Vinegar marinated cucumbers
by Perky214
3 Comments
Perky214
(1) The tin
(2) The meal
(3-4) Fish out of the tin. Doesn’t look great, but the flavor is light and not too smoky
(5) The salmon brick flakes well with slight pressure from my Victorian sardine fork – squeee!
(6-7) Making the salad: I wanted an Asian flair, since I was using my leftover shiitake mushroom Jasmine rice. I used about 1 tsp of sesame oil
(8-10) Add 1 tbsp Kewpie mayo and about the same amount of capers.
(11) The shiitake-jasmine rice
(12) I diced about 1/2 c of cucumber, and marinated it for about 10 minutes in some sushi vinegar.
(13-14) YUM! If you want some crunch, add some sesame seeds 🙂
(15) Nutrition and ingredients
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I grabbed a couple of these tins on my last trip to TJ’s to make a quick smoked salmon dip for a seacuterie. Then I wound up not doing the seacuterie. 🤷🏼♀️
So today, when I was looking at my leftover shiitake mushroom rice and poking around in my canned fish storage, wondering what fish would go well with the rice, this tin jumped out at me.
Tinned smoked salmon and umami-bomb shiitake mushrooms sound like a weird combo, but joined together with some standard Asian pantry ingredients, they worked really well together.
Y’all have probably noticed I didn’t use any soy sauce today – that’s because I thought the rice and marinated cucumber was salty enough, and I didn’t want to hide the natural sweetness of the smoked salmon under a splash of soy sauce.
This was a delightful light late-summer meal that didn’t heat up the kitchen, and came together in about 10 minutes.
10/10 will buy this tin again. For 3.99, it’s a great tin to have on hand for those days when you want something a little more elevated than canned sardines.
Sam_the_beagle1
Sushi vinegar cucumbers? That’s a gotta try.
redceramicfrypan
This looks like a wonderful preparation!
My only issue with the TJs Lightly Smoked Salmon is that it’s sourced from Chile. According to Seafood Watch:
> The high use of antimicrobials and pesticides to control bacterial diseases and parasitic sea lice and the potential development of antimicrobial resistance across Chile are critical concerns. In Region XI, Atlantic salmon are treated, on average, 2.9 times per site per year with antimicrobials listed as highly important for human medicine by the World Health Organization and are also treated multiple times with pesticides.
I really wish TJs would improve their sourcing, because this is otherwise a delicious tin.
3 Comments
(1) The tin
(2) The meal
(3-4) Fish out of the tin. Doesn’t look great, but the flavor is light and not too smoky
(5) The salmon brick flakes well with slight pressure from my Victorian sardine fork – squeee!
(6-7) Making the salad: I wanted an Asian flair, since I was using my leftover shiitake mushroom Jasmine rice. I used about 1 tsp of sesame oil
(8-10) Add 1 tbsp Kewpie mayo and about the same amount of capers.
(11) The shiitake-jasmine rice
(12) I diced about 1/2 c of cucumber, and marinated it for about 10 minutes in some sushi vinegar.
(13-14) YUM! If you want some crunch, add some sesame seeds 🙂
(15) Nutrition and ingredients
———————————————
I grabbed a couple of these tins on my last trip to TJ’s to make a quick smoked salmon dip for a seacuterie. Then I wound up not doing the seacuterie. 🤷🏼♀️
So today, when I was looking at my leftover shiitake mushroom rice and poking around in my canned fish storage, wondering what fish would go well with the rice, this tin jumped out at me.
Tinned smoked salmon and umami-bomb shiitake mushrooms sound like a weird combo, but joined together with some standard Asian pantry ingredients, they worked really well together.
Y’all have probably noticed I didn’t use any soy sauce today – that’s because I thought the rice and marinated cucumber was salty enough, and I didn’t want to hide the natural sweetness of the smoked salmon under a splash of soy sauce.
This was a delightful light late-summer meal that didn’t heat up the kitchen, and came together in about 10 minutes.
10/10 will buy this tin again. For 3.99, it’s a great tin to have on hand for those days when you want something a little more elevated than canned sardines.
Sushi vinegar cucumbers? That’s a gotta try.
This looks like a wonderful preparation!
My only issue with the TJs Lightly Smoked Salmon is that it’s sourced from Chile. According to Seafood Watch:
> The high use of antimicrobials and pesticides to control bacterial diseases and parasitic sea lice and the potential development of antimicrobial resistance across Chile are critical concerns. In Region XI, Atlantic salmon are treated, on average, 2.9 times per site per year with antimicrobials listed as highly important for human medicine by the World Health Organization and are also treated multiple times with pesticides.
I really wish TJs would improve their sourcing, because this is otherwise a delicious tin.