‘ Shrimp toast and a cardamom gin cocktail as a Christmas movie snack’
Christmas is the time when you eat savoury and sweet, one after the other to satisfy all your taste buds. Even though I love to bake and cook sweet things, I much prefer eating savoury over any given day. This very typical sweet rye bread combined with some form of shrimp paste and/or cured salmon is something us nordics love to eat. I added the runny egg on top as I personally just love the combination together. My husband and I had these toasts yesterday when we watched a Christmas movie. I love that he has been home so much now as he is on daddy leave combined with some holidays, so we are trying to make the most of enjoying this time together with our baby. We also enjoyed a light cocktail each made from cardamom, grapefruit and gin. I cannot believe it is only two more nights until Christmas Eve. I just made some gingerbread cookie dough into the fridge that I will be baking in the morning as we will have a little picnic in the forest tomorrow. Let’s start with making the cocktail-
Cardamom gin cocktail
- 2 oz Heindrick’s Gin
- 1 oz grapefruit juice ( I used fresh juice)
- 1 oz lemon juice
- 1/2 oz syrup
- 1 cardamom pod
- Rosemary/ Seabuck thorn/dried apple to garnish
Toast a cardamom pod on a dry pan to intensify it’s flavour. Put the pod in a cocktail shaker and gently crush it. Give it just enough pressure to crack the pod and a few of the inner seeds. Add the rest of the ingredients and shake well with ice. Strain into a glass and garnish with sea buck thorn and a twig of rosemary.
Shrimp Paste
- 1 cup chopped shrimp
- 1/2 cup creme fraiche
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon lemon
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- pinch of salt
- ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon chopped dill
- 1 tablespoon chopped capers
- 1 tablespoon chopped red onion
- thyme twigs
Mix everything together in a bowl to make a delicious shrimp paste
Remaining ingredients for the toast
- few slices of Cold smoked salmon
- 2 slices rye bread
- 7 minute cooked egg (runny yolk)
- ground green pepper
- toasted walnuts
