Salmon and Avocado Sandwiches

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

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

Dinner
Sandwich
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