Butter-fried white bread with tuna salad and avocado - Tuna salad canapés
Recipe for small, tasty canapés with tuna salad and avocado.This quantity serves 4 people with 3 canapés each, – if you are serving other canapés as well, it stretches to 6-8 people.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- 6 slices white bread
- 1 avocado, thinly sliced
- Chives
- Freshly ground pepper
Tuna salad
- 1 tin tuna
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1 tbsp crème fraîche
- 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1/4 small red onion, finely chopped
- 1 small pickled gherkin, finely chopped
- 1-2 tbsp finely chopped chives
- tbsp lemon juice to taste
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Drain the tuna well and tip it into a bowl.
- Add the remaining tuna salad ingredients and season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Using a cutter, cut 12 rounds, about 4 cm in diameter, out of the bread slices.
- Melt a little butter in a frying pan over a 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 tuna salad, thin slices of avocado and 2 short lengths of chive.Season with freshly ground pepper.