Swedish Shrimp Toast Recipe for Toast Skagen or Skagenröra on Fried Bread

This Swedish shrimp toast recipe makes 'toast Skagen' or Skagenröra on fried bread. It's an addictively delicious Scandinavian-style open sandwich topped with Skagenröra, a creamy shrimp salad of cooked prawns in a dressing of mayonnaise and crème fraîche or sour cream with a smidgen of mustard and loads of fresh dill and chives piled onto fried bread and topped with caviar. It's fabulous served for brunch or lunch or as a snack or starter.

Prep Time15

Total Time15

Course: Appetiser, lunch, dinner, snack

Cuisine: Swedish food, Scandinavian food, Nordic food

Servings:

Calories: 878kcal

Author: Lara Dunston

Equipment

Mixing Bowl
sandwich press panini press

Ingredients

300 g small shrimp cooked, shelled, deveined, 150 g or half a cup of prawns per person makes a generous
½ cup mayonnaise good quality
½ cup crème fraîche or sour cream
¼ tsp Dijon mustard optional
¼ tsp salt or to taste
¼ tsp black pepper or to taste
2 tbsp fresh dill finely chopped
1 tbsp chives or spring onions, finely sliced
2 muffins sliced in half, or more if making more portions
4 tbsp unsalted butter
1 jar caviar lumpfish caviar or salmon roe
1 lemon cut into wedges

Instructions

If you’re not using small cooked shrimp, chop the larger cooked shrimp into small chunky pieces and transfer to a bowl or container and refrigerate to keep cold while you’re making the dressing.
In a bowl, use a large spoon to gently combine the quality mayonnaise, crème fraîche (or sour cream), smidgen of Dijon mustard if using, salt and pepper, and fresh dill and chives (or spring onions).
To the same bowl, add the chilled cooked shrimp, and combine well so every shrimp is coated in the creamy dressing. Taste, and adjust the seasoning and herbs to suit your palate.
Generously spread the unsalted butter onto the muffin slices and toast in a sandwich press or panini press with griddle until crispy and golden brown. Alternatively, you could fry the bread in a griddle pan, frying pan, or skillet.
Use tongs to transfer the toasted muffins to plates, spoon generous piles of creamy shrimp onto the toasted round muffin slices, and sprinkle on some more fresh sprigs of dill.
Serve with the shrimp toast with a jar of caviar and dish of lemon wedges, and encourage your guests to squeeze a little lemon juice onto the shrimp toast and spoon on some caviar.

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