Salmon and Avocado Sandwiches

Name: Salmon and Avocado Sandwiches
Yield: Makes 4 Generous Sandwiches
Ingredients: 8 slices crusty French bread; salt; 4 broiled, sautéed, or grilled salmon fillets, ¼-to ½-inch thick; 1 ripe avocado, preferably Hass, peeled, pitted, and sliced; pepper; 4 pieces lettuce, preferably a crunchy variety such as romaine; 8 thin slice ripe tomato (optional); 4 thin slices cold-smoked salmon (optional); 8 thin slices red onion (optional); butter or extra-virgin olive oil; ½ lime

Preparation info

Makes
4
Generous Sandwiches

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simply Salmon

By James Peterson

Published 2001

About

Salmon in almost any form makes delicious traditional sandwiches as well as the open-faced sandwiches on crusty bread that the Italians call bruschette. Sandwiches and bruschette are a great way to serve salmon left over from the night before.

Ingredients

8 slices crusty French bread
butter or extra-virgin olive oil
4 broiled, sautéed, or grilled salmon fillets, ¼-to

Sandwich
Dinner
Pescatarian

Method

Toast the slices of bread. Butter 4 of the slices or brush them with olive oil on one side. If you didn’t season the salmon when you cooked it, sprinkle it with salt and pepper. Stack the salmon, smoked salmon, onion, tomato, and lettuce on the 4 slices of buttered toast. Spread the avocado slices ev