Salmon Cheese Egg Torta With Dill and Paprika
- 100 g butter
- 400 ml wheat flour
- 10 ml baking powder
- 150 ml milk
- 400 g salmon, canned or fresh cooked
- 3 eggs, hard boiled
- 1 red bell pepper (whole paprika, or pimiento, not sharp)
- 50 ml fresh dill, amount as fine cut
- 300 ml light cream
- 250 g cream cheese, Port-Salut type recommended. To be grated
- 2 eggs, raw
- Preparations: Take butter out from fridge to soften.
- Boil three (3) eggs hard, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C (400 F?
- ).
- Prepare the base: mix baking powder to the flour.
- Mix soft butter to flour by hand, pressing it with fingers.
- Continue first to grainy, complete when the dough is even.
- Mix milk into to flour'n'butter mix.
- Grease a largish, edged, square oven pan, or alternatively cover it with oven-proof siliconated baking paper.
- Spread the dough to the pan evenly, making only little edges to keep the filling.
- Make the filling: Remove any skin pieces and bones from salmon.
- If using canned salmon, save in any liquid in the can, otherwise add a few spoonfuls of water to moisten.
- Cool and peel the boiled eggs.
- Cut eggs to 5 mm (1/5 in) cubes; you can put the eggs in a cup and cut them with scissors.
- Cut the paprika to cubes, finely cut dill and add to the filling.
- Combine with salmon and mix manually to be an even but grainy paste.
- Do NOT liquidize.
- Spread the filling over the dough base.
- Prepare topping sauce: Grate cheese, add light cream (or equivalent amount of cream and milk) and two raw eggs.
- Mix well and pour over the filling.
- Bake in the middle of 200'C oven for 30 minutes, i.e.
- when it has got some brown spots.
butter, flour, baking powder, milk, salmon, eggs, red bell pepper, dill, light cream, cream cheese, eggs
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/salmon-cheese-egg-torta-with-dill-and-paprika-183789 (may not work)