- sear peppers and mushrooms and finish off with spices and lemon
- Sear fish and finish with scallions and lemon
- Place bread in oven
- chop kale
- Slice cheese
- Assemble on a cheese platter and enjoy!
Crostinis with kale salad
I love crostinis, finger food, appetizer party food. But it is so rare to be served such a thing! I created a dinner based on this! There are a lot of steps but I promise the prep shouldn't take longer then ten minutes and the cooking time is another 15 minutes tops. (Prepare all the ingredients in advance so you can do one thing after the other!)
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Ingredients:
- 1 whole wheat french baguette cut into ½ inch slices
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup Balsamic vinegar
- 1 red pepper thinly sliced
- 1 yellow pepper thinly sliced
- 1 green spicy pepper thinly sliced
- 4 king oyster mushrooms thinly sliced
- 12 ounces salmon skin and bones removed
- 4 scallions chopped
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme
- 1 teaspoon salt pink Himalayan
- 2 lemons freshly squeezed
- 2 oranges peeled and sliced, saving core for dressing
- 4 ounces kale thinly chopped
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Prepare a baking sheet pan with parchment paper and place sliced bread on top. Place 1/4 cup of olive oil and ½ cup of balsamic vinegar in a large bowl. Brush the bread with the mixture and stick in oven for 6-8 minutes.
- Add the peppers and spicy pepper to the large bowl with marinade and mix well. Place a large skillet on high heat. Add the peppers (without the marinade) and saute for 5 minutes, mixing periodically. Place peppers in a small jar.
- Add the mushrooms to the marinade and mix well. Once peppers are removed, add mushrooms to skillet and saute for 3 minutes. Place in another jar.
- Wipe out the skillet and place back on high heat. Add remaining olive oil and get hot. Sear salmon for 3 minutes per side. Remove and pull apart and place on plate, mix with scallions.
- Divide the remaining marinade among the pepper and mushrooms jars and add 11/2 tablespoons of honey, ½ tablespoon thyme and ½ teaspoon of salt to each and mix well. Add fresh lemon to the peppers, mushrooms and fish.
- Remove bread from oven and place on large cutting board with the variety of crostinis and toppings. (Brie with charred red peppers, Cream cheese with scallions and salmon, goat cheese and mushroom salad)
- After the crostinis are prepared, add kale to a large salad bowl. Add remaining peppers, mushrooms (with their marinade) oranges and scallions to the bowl and mix well.
Notes & Tips:
Another way to serve this is to not “dress” each piece of bread but to make all the toppings and place them in jars on a cheese board, with the cheeses, some fresh grapes, figs, apples, the breads, olives and dates and it will take this whole experience up a notch!
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Leftover tips for tomorrow’s lunch:
Create the worlds greatest sandwich for tomorrows lunch! Save yourself some bread and don’t bake it. Slice it horizontally and add your favorite of the cheeses and the peppers, mushroom and pulled salmon. Serve with leftover kale salad (even if it is dressed it will be amazing the next day!)
