Hot-smoked salmon burgers with wasabi mayo and cucumber salad

  • Portion size: Serves 4
  • Takes 20 minutes to make, 10 minutes to cook, plus chilling
  • Difficulty: easy

A Japanese-flavoured salmon burger recipe which can be prepared in advance and also frozen so they make a convenient dinner anytime.

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Ingredients

  • 3 hot-smoked salmon fillets, skinned
  • 4 spring onions, finely chopped
  • 4cm piece fresh ginger, grated
  • 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  • Zest and juice of ½ lime, plus 1½ tsp extra juice for the mayo and salad
  • 150g cold mashed potato
  • Small handful fresh coriander, finely chopped
  • 4 tsp wasabi powder
  • 100g mayonnaise
  • 1 red onion, halved and thinly sliced
  • ½ cucumber, sliced into ribbons
  • 1 red chilli, deseeded and diced
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • 5 tbsp olive oil
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Method

  1. Flake the salmon into a large bowl, then mix in the spring onion, ginger, soy sauce, lime zest and juice, potato and coriander. Form into 4 burgers, then chill for 20 minutes.
  2. In a small bowl, mix the wasabi with 4 tbsp water, leave for 5 minutes, then stir in the mayonnaise and ½ tsp lime juice. Set aside.
  3. Put the onion in a small bowl of boiling water, leave for 5 minutes, drain, then mix with the cucumber and chilli. Toss with the sugar, fish sauce and the remaining lime juice.
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  5. Heat the oil in a frying pan over a medium heat, then fry the burgers for 3 minutes each side until cooked through. Serve with the wasabi mayo, cucumber salad and roast butternut squash wedges, if you like.

Nutrition

  • 471kcals Calories
  • 37.7g (6.4g saturated) Fat
  • 21.3g Protein
  • 12.2g (5.6g sugars) Carbs
  • 5g Salt

Quick wins & tips

You can easily make up the burgers and freeze them, uncooked, for another day.

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