Butter-fried white bread with ham salad - Canapés with ham salad and pickled red onions
Recipe for small, tasty canapés with ham salad, - an easy and delicious appetiser.This quantity serves 4 people with 3 each, – if there are other nibbles on offer, it stretches to 6-8 people.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 6 slices bread sliced white loaf (franskbrød)
- 1 small handful of salad leaves, e.g. rocket
- Pickled red onions - find the recipe here
- Cress
- Butter for frying the bread
Ham salad
- 150 g cooked ham (leftovers, diced ham or similar)
- 50 ml mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp crème fraîche
- 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1/4 red onion, finely chopped
- 2 tbsp finely chopped chives
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Put the ham in a mini chopper or similar and blitz until finely chopped. Alternatively, chop it finely with a knife.
- Mix the ham with the remaining ingredients and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Cut out 12 rounds from the bread slices, about 4 cm in diameter.
- Melt a little butter in a frying pan over medium heat and fry the bread rounds until crisp and golden on both sides, – about 3 min. per side. Then leave them to rest on a little kitchen paper, – until they have cooled.
- Top the bread rounds with salad leaves of your choice, then ham salad and drained pickled red onions. Finish with cress and freshly ground pepper.