Assorted canapés with fish

Recipe for assorted canapés (tartine) with fish

Preparation

• - Prepare your smoked tuna.
  Clean, wash in cold water quickly and pat dry your strawberries.
  Slice them and put in a little bowl.
  Add balsamic vinegar, stir well and let them flavor, 30 minutes.
  Divide every slice of tuna in order to have pieces suitable for every canapé.
  Arrange your tuna pieces in a large platter.
  Spread strawberries with their juice that in the meantime will be formed over tuna.
  Let all ingredients flavor while you begin to decorate your canapés.
• - Remove butter from the refrigerator half an hour before assembling canapés, to soften it.
• - Halve every slice of your pain d'épices.
• - Spread the amount of butter you prefer on every slice.
• - Spread the right amount of red lumpfish roe on the fourth part of canapés.
• - Then spread asparagus cream on a similar amount of canapés.
• - At this point prepare your canapés with tuna and straberries.
• - Then it is the turn of canapés with marinated anchovy fillets.
• - Look at the photos for more details.

Just before serving

• - Arrange your canapés on one or more serving platters.
• - Garnish with some pieces of seafood salad if you want.
• - Your canapés are ready!

Note

Tips

• - These canapés with fish are a spring recipe for the presence of asparagus and strawberries.
• - Asparagus cream is a mousse whose recipe you can find in the section dedicated to vegetables.
• - You can decorate your canapés with some pieces of seafood salad if you think to serve it too. But it is not necessary.

Menu planning

• - These canapés are ideal for a seafood menu in spring.
  Here it is a typical Italian menu from canapés to dessert!
  Serve these canapés with fish matched with a good-quality white wine before placing your guests at the table. In this case I don't suggest a typical Italian antipasto because these canapés have an unusual taste and it could be very difficult combining other seafood platter unless you want to serve oysters. You can find some ideas to prepare, eventually cook and serve oysters in our index page dedicated to Italian recipes with molluscs.
  But let's go on with the first course. My tip would be taglierini with artichokes and shrimps. Artichokes is another spring vegetable.
  The second course can't be too elaborated. I'd choose a gilthead with olives, a delicate recipe that could be accompanied by lentil mini frittatas, to serve something unusual.
  Don't change the white wine served with canapés. A white wine is ideal for all your menu.
  The last course must be, obviously, an Italian cake or dessert. You can't serve desserts based on pastry or whipping cream in a seafood menu. It's better a fruit tart or a soft cake in this case. I'm sure some of us would know what is my favorite cake for this seafood menu. I'd serve Caprese cake (Torta caprese). Plain chocolate and almonds are its main ingredients.
  To complete your menu a little glass of arancino (orange-flavored liqueur) or lemoncino and a coffee. Enjoy this menu!

Useful links for this recipe

• - Here are some links to pages that can help you. At first the recipe for asparagus cream you have to spread on your canapés.
• - Let's see now the recipes I have just suggested for a seafood Italian menu: taglierini with artichokes and shrimps, gilthead with olives, mini frittatas with lentils, Caprese cake.
• - If you want to make homemade arancino, follow the link.
• - Another important page for you could be mollusc directory to look for oyster recipes.

Healthy eating

• - These canapés with fish are a special food for a special event, they are not prepared as finger food for a daily menu.
  Our body knows very well how to compensate for the abuses of a lunch or dinner if not repeated too many times :))
• - It wasn't impossible for me to calculate calories, fat and sugar of these canapés with fish. It's variable the amount of butter and other ingredients. The calculation would be too superficial and misleading.

Loretta

What's the right wine ?

Generally Carlo and I serve Südtirol Gewürztraminer with our seafood canapés. It's a fruity wine of Alto Adige, an Italian region.

We created a page dedicated to Trentino-Alto Adige region with recipes, wines and typical food.