How to make Smoked Salmon Bites!

Hey y'all my meal makers out there welcome to making meals with Nika. So today we're going to do something that tastes I don't know what I'm gonna say absolutely delicious. It's pretty healthy and you can eat this as a snack or if you're hosting like a holiday party or you want to you know or you're having some friends over you want to put out a little appetizer. This is the perfect little bite that you're going to put out and I'm going to call these salmon bites. I haven't even named them yet. They're just so delicious. So for now we're going to call them salmon bites but if you make these and you taste it and you got a better name go ahead send me in a better name because I think when you taste it you it just deserves a better name. I haven't come up with it yet. So really simple ingredients and a lot of these are interchangeable. So you're going to start with the base. Now I am doing bagel chips right. These are nice and crunchy. This is the everything bagel. I love that flavor but you can get regular bagel chips. It's up to you or you can just do like crackers. When I'm making this for myself like I'm being fancy for y'all but when I'm making this for myself I just use regular whole wheat saltine crackers and they're delicious. Okay so have some type of base and then you're going to go with smoked salmon. Now when I am mixing smoked salmon with other flavors I go with a straight just smoked. I'm not using barbecue or jalapeno or anything like that because that's not going to go really great with the flavors I have today but feel free to play around with it. But for this recipe we're going to use some regular smoked salmon and this is the cooked one right. You don't want to go to the grocery store and get the one that says live. So the one that's really really thinly sliced that is just you know sprinkled with a little lemon juice and the acid is supposed to cook it but it has a totally different texture. We want the one that's cooked okay for this recipe. You're also going to need an avocado. I love avocados. My mother would give these to us growing up. They're just creamy and delicious and you need a really really soft one. You know don't get a hard bright. The brighter ones the bright green ones they look prettier but they are not tasty. They're not ripe yet. You want to get it nice and dark like this one. And then we're going to use some cream cheese. Listen I like flavor flavor flavor so I have a chive and onion cream cheese. If you want to go with you know regular you can do that. They have like a garlic um a garlic one that will taste really yummy and they had like a garden vegetable that would taste yummy too. So I would use you know whatever flavor that you know speaks to you but for this one we're using chive and onion and then we're just going to sprinkle it with a little a little seasoning. So we have red pepper flakes for people who like things a little spicy which I love things spicy and everything but the bagel seasoning. Yes I know that this is everything but the bagel bagel chips but it probably doesn't have enough seasoning for me so we're going to sprinkle a little bit. All right so this is all the um these are all the ingredients that you need to make this wonderful little bite in your mouth. So let's get started. Okay let's do this y'all just going to see me make these straight up. I'm not going to zoom into the camera or anything like that so we're going to make these right now. So the first thing you want to do is let's start with cutting our avocado. So I have a separate board for my avocado. Now here's the trick to cutting your avocado. You're just going to take your knife now you put this down on a board if you're not even used to cutting things just put it down on the board. Me I just put it in my hand. You're going to oh look at that oozing out that looks delicious. You're going to twist it's going to cut you're going to halve it right. Now if your avocado is soft enough what you should do is you can take your knife and you just hit that seed and the seed should pop out. It's not doing it for me right now but that's how you get the seed out. So this could be a little bit riper but you see that see it didn't do it like I wanted it to but like within the seed pops out. Okay so the seed is out of our avocado. We're just going to take a smoother knife just going to go around or you can use a spoon. A spoon will get this out in one in one rip. I'm going to do the other one. I love avocado. I could cut this up right now and just put a little pepper on it just a little salt and just eat it plain. It's just so absolutely delicious. I love avocado. Just so nice and soft. You know what I mean? It's just a really great. Is it a fruit? It's a really great fruit. So I'm just going to cut these in pieces. You know just little bite-sized pieces depending on how many crackers you plan to make. Right okay so we got our avocado together. So basically I'm just getting everything together so when it's time to just put them put them together we're good. So so we got our avocado and then you're going to want to get your salmon together. So I'm going to break my salmon into small pieces. Now this is salmon that I had left over. I made some smoked salmon deviled eggs earlier today. And this is the leftover salmon. So I'm not going to open a new pack. I'm just going to use my leftover salmon. So and for this I'm not going to use the skin. I'm just taking it right off the skin and I'm just just peeling it. You know there's no you know no rhyme or reason. You know you just take all the salmon off and then you're going to determine how much salmon you put on top. Now this is one of those you know snacks that that you decided you love smoked salmon that you're going to have a nice size on top. If you don't really care for avocado then you're not going to have a big piece of avocado. I love salmon and avocados. I'm having a big piece of avocado and salmon but that's enough right there. All right so I got my salmon together and then we're just going to start assembling. It's just that easy. It really is not hard but it tastes so it just tastes so complicated. When you taste it you're like oh my goodness this is very complicated. I bet it took them forever to make this. Absolutely not. All right so these are the everything bagel chips. Let me see. Oh they are crunchy. They don't have a lot of flavor though. So I'm going to definitely sprinkle these at the end. So then you just take your cream cheese and remember I said you use whatever flavor you want. I am using a chive and you're just going to just spread the cream cheese on it. You spread however however you know whatever amount you want. If you want a little amount spread a little amount. I spread enough so you can taste it but that it's not overwhelming. Does that make sense? Because I don't want a real big mouthful of you know cream cheese when I take a bite. So you're going to taste it though. Yeah you're going to taste the cream cheese on it. So you go ahead and and it doesn't have to be fully covered. You know what I mean? Listen you will save yourself so much time. It doesn't have to be perfect or fully covered. You just want to go ahead and spread that on there. And for presentation purposes it's still going to be pretty. Trust me. All right so let me see. I'm gonna do I'm gonna do one more. These look I know these are gonna be delicious. I already know. So we got we got those. Then this is all you do. Like I am not joking. You take a piece of avocado. You put it on there. You take some smoked salmon and you put it on there. What? It tastes it but it tastes so much more complicated than that. And then I'm gonna wait to oh I dropped that. Don't worry about it. I'm gonna wait till I get them all. Well no I'm gonna do it on here. So let me just get a couple more because I'm gonna I'm gonna season them. Right but I don't want any seasoning on my plate for presentation purposes. So I'm gonna season them on my board. Now listen every single one they're not going to be the exact same. So don't worry about it. That's what's going to make them look so cool on the plate. So everyone everything is going to look a little bit different. But they're all going to taste great. Right. And they're going to look uniform when you put them on the plate. Right. So I've been focused on this. But check this out. You guys see what I'm doing. Right. I got a couple more. And these are going to just taste so scrumptious. It tastes like and well my friends that know me know that I'm notorious. I should have just made this my own sandwich. But I eat a bagel thin with cream cheese. I put smoked salmon on there. Avocado on it. In the morning I put egg. Like a over easy egg. Oh my goodness you talking about the best breakfast sandwich ever. Did y'all write that down? It's delicious. Okay so we got these done. Now I am going to sprinkle these all together with this. This is everything but the bagel seasoning. And it's great. It has like garlic and seeds and it's just so delicious. So you're going to sprinkle that. And like I said I like mine a little spicy. I'm going to sprinkle the red pepper flakes. You know. And then if you're having these for yourself pour your glass of wine. Get you a little plate. And go do what you need to do right. But if you have these for guests you just want to arrange these really nicely on a plate. Look at that. I mean look at that. Look how fancy. Look how fancy that looks. And it tastes delicious. Now this look don't try to be cute. This is one of those you take in one bite. I'm gonna take this in one bite because I need all of the flavors to speak to me at the same time. Y'all can't hear that music. It's in my head. It's delicious. Now these bagel chips are big big crispy. So be ready for that. I'm gonna prefer crackers a little softer texture. But this is perfect. So listen I just want to say thank you for making this meal with Mika. Like and subscribe. Go to my Instagram making meals with Mika. And follow me on Facebook. All right. Thank you.