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Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate (Jamie Oliver)

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Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate is a fast and delicious meal from Jamie Oliver’s book 5 Ingredients Quick and Easy Foods.

Comparing Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon on a Plate to the picture in the cookbook.

Don’t have time to cook? YES, you do! If I could show you how to get dinner on the table faster than pizza delivery, would you be interested? Roll up your sleeves, and spend a few minutes in the kitchen. My motto: “Food doesn’t have to be complicated, BUT it does have to taste good”. 

Here we are, right at the start of the hectic holiday season. I know my “to do/make/get/go/list is growing longer all the time. Really, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s, it really is just one BIG, LONG, NEVER ENDING DAY!

QUICK AND EASY

We all need some quick and easy meals to get us through the craziness. I know the holiday season is busy, but for LOTS of people, BUSY is part of life. Work, school, taking kids here, there and everywhere. Do we ever get a break?

Smoked Salmon Plate ingredients, salmon, dill, cucumber and cottage cheese.

If you don’t have a copy of Jamie Oliver’s newest cookbook 5 Ingredients Quick and Easy Foods, you really need to pick one up. Hint: it makes the perfect Christmas gift too….here is my affiliate link!!

I am a cookbook fanatic. Hubby doesn’t even blink an eye when I bring home yet another book to add to my HUGE collection. Since he gets to eat all the delicious food, there are NO complaints from him.

Picture of cookbook page with smoked salmon plate ingredients.

I love Jamie Oliver, so I just HAD TO HAVE his newest book. After all, it needs to be with all his other books on my shelf LOL. Even us food bloggers are pressed for time too. These quick and easy meals will get you from the kitchen to table in no time. Jamie’s approach to using simple ingredients has always been a hit with me.

SMOKED SALMON

Do you like smoked salmon? It has only been within the last few years that I have actually tried it. I don’t know why, but for some reason, I didn’t think I would like it. You know how it is when you try to convince your kids to try something new. Same thing happened with oysters but once is enough for me (for oysters that is).

Once I tried smoked salmon, I really had to wonder what was holding me back? The thought of the smoked flavour perhaps? Funny how your brain thinks sometimes. Unless you try it, how will you know? That is what I keep telling my son-in-law the “pork hater”. He has NEVER tried any type of pork. How can you not love bacon? My daughter and grandkids sure eat it up!

Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate on a plate in front of the cookbook.

Looking for some great smoked salmon recipes? Warm Potato Salad with Dill & Smoked Salmon is a favourite around here.

Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate can be brunch, lunch or dinner. Super quick pickled cucumber, a scoop of cottage cheese, avocado, smoked salmon, and some fresh dill. Yup, you got it 5 ingredients. You will be eating in no time.

First, thinly slice the cucumber and let it pickle while you get your ingredients ready to go. Next, plate your ingredients (however you like). Next, EAT! Did I mention how quick and easy this is? Do you believe me now? You don’t even have to cook with this recipe.

Close up of Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate ready to eat.

Just because we are busy, we don’t have to eat crappy food. Don’t rely on fast food joints to feed your family. Meals like this Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate are far more nutritious, use REAL food, and one more thing, DELICIOUS!

Need a quick and easy holiday party dish? Smoked Salmon Cucumber Appetizer with Cream Cheese is easy to make, easy to handle and easy to eat!

Speaking of cookbooks, this is going to be a regular part of my posts. Each month (or maybe more), my new Recipes From A Cookbook category will feature some tasty dishes created by top celebrity chefs and other talented cookbook authors.

Be sure to follow me on social media so you don’t miss any recipes.

Serving Smoked Salmon Plate with cookbook in the background.

Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate (Jamie Oliver)

Course: Brunch/Lunch/Dinner, Dinner Salad
: Canadian
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Servings: 2
Calories: 298 kcal
Author: Homemade & Yummy
Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate is a fast & delicious meal from Jamie Oliver’s book 5 Ingredients Quick and Easy Foods.
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Ingredients

  • 1 small cucumber
  • fresh dill
  • 3 1/2 ounces smoked salmon
  • 1 ripe avocado
  • 2 tbsp cottage cheese
  • salt & pepper (to season)
  • 2 tsp olive oil (for garnish)
  • 2 tbsp red wine vinegar (to pickle cucumber)
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Instructions

To Pickle the Cucumber:

  1. Wash and thinly slice the cucumber lengthwise into long ribbons. You can use a vegetable peeler (or a mandolin). Place in a bowl.

  2. Add the red wine vinegar, a pinch of salt, and about 4-5 sprigs of fresh dill (snipped). Mix well and set aside.


To Plate the Salad:

  1. Divide the salmon into 2 portions, and drape (layer) across serving plates.

  2. Cut the avocado in half, remove the pit. Scoop the flesh out with a spoon and place beside the salmon.

  3. Remove the cucumber ribbons from the vinegar, and place on the plate. Drizzle a bit of the vinegar mixture into the avocado.

  4. Scoop the cottage cheese onto the salmon.

  5. Season the food with salt and pepper. Drizzle on the olive oil. Garnish with some dill.

  6. ENJOY!!

Recipe Notes

Don't stress, plate this up however you like. Have fun in the kitchen!!

This recipe is from Jamie Oliver's cookbook 5 Ingredients Quick and Easy Food. (affiliate link)

Nutrition Facts
Quick and Easy Smoked Salmon Plate (Jamie Oliver)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 298 Calories from Fat 198
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 22g 34%
Saturated Fat 3g 15%
Cholesterol 13mg 4%
Sodium 454mg 19%
Potassium 794mg 23%
Total Carbohydrates 14g 5%
Dietary Fiber 7g 28%
Sugars 3g
Protein 13g 26%
Vitamin A 6.9%
Vitamin C 17.3%
Calcium 5.4%
Iron 7.8%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.


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  4. I’m glad the word is getting out there on smoked salmon! I love it and honestly almost think it’s a unnecessary to have salmon any other way! Yours looks nice and delicious too!

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  5. I think I need two weeks of this dish and then maybe, just maybe, I’d get tired of it. I really like winter type foods but after a while I’m craving light foods that give me energy. Heavy comfort food just makes me want to sleep. I’ll have to check out the smoked salmon at the store.

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  6. This is my kind of dish, i just LOVE all the ingredients and how easy it is to put together! I really need to get my hands on a copy of this book (as I add it to the christmas wish list…)

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  8. I’m all for recipes that can be cooked/prepared faster than pizza delivery! Combine that with the minimal ingredients needed to make this and we have a surefire hit. Plus, this recipe will be great in the summer when I’m tempted to order out when the house is too hot to cook (we don’t have a.c.). This needs to make it into my rotation!

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  9. Your motto and mine are similar! I love that you shared this… I was looking for something for christmas morning that isn’t so heavy and sweet… Im going to serve this! Thanks!

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  11. I absolutely agree with you! Food doesn’t have to be complicated, just delicious! This looks like a fabulous and easy meal I would love to have anytime! I just love smokes salmon! By the way I absolutely LOVE your first photo next to the book. It is so beautiful and so much like the one on the page! Love, love, love it!

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  13. Smoked salmon is my 2 year old’s favorite food (his entire second birthday brunch revolved around it) so he is ready to invite himself over to your house!

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    • HAHAH…well quite the foodie at such a young age. AWESOME!! I wish you could come for dinner, I would be more than happy to make this for him.

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  15. Wow, you only tried smoked salmon a few years ago? Smoked salmon is one of my favourite things to eat. I love it in sandwiches, in waffles, in savoury cakes. What I haven’t actually tried is pairing it with some cottage cheese. It sounds delicious!

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  17. Everything on this plate looks so enticing Gloria! I am addicted to smoked salmon combined with full and this would be THE perfect holiday platter for my family.

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  19. Jamie Oliver was in my hometown redoing the school menus a few years back, but I never got a chance to meet him! This sounds delicious- I love all things salmon!

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  24. I’ve always liked Jaime Oliver! Hubby and I used to watch him all the time. Once he and his wife had their baby, what’s her name Pertunia (?), he got into the healthy foods. I love his simplicity and smoked salmon is the best. I would welcome eating that delicious dish any day!!

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  30. Well, I have to say that salmon is not something we usually eat, mostly because I have no idea how to prepare it unless it is in sushi, but I absolutely love the idea of quick and easy meals, especially during the week!

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  35. Oh this is something me and my hubby would eat any day. My son not so much but we are working on him. I am a big fan of Jamie and of cookbooks. I can even tell from the picture I like the layout. I have a weird thing that if it’s not visually pleasing I don’t want to buy it but his looks nice. I’m going to send my hubby here and say “here’s my Christmas gift from you to me.”

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    • Well I totally understand you son not liking it. I was way into my adult years before I even ate avocado and smoked salmon. He might like it one day. YES….please do order the order the book…you will LOVE it.

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  37. I love books and if I had space I’d open my own little library. I collect a lot of cooking desserts and cake decorating books. Crazy about them. I love Jamie foods. Always so simple, easy and effortless. This plate has all my favorites.. Smoked salmon avocado and cottage cheese. For me this is dinner.! Love it Gloria.

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    • I do have my own library (LOL)….and yet I keep adding more. I have been a Jamie Oliver fan for a long time. Love his cooking style…and this is so delicious.

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  39. I’m a huge fan of quick and easy meals too. And cookbooks! I have so so many of them haha. Some I haven’t even read, I just look at the photos 🙂 This looks delicious!

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  43. I LOVE smoked salmon and having such a simple recipe just makes me want to pull it out and eat it everyday! haha 🙂 I will definitely be making these for my parents for brunch this holiday season!

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