Recipe - Asian Salmon Burgers With Pickled Cucumber On Pumpernicke

1 lg Cucumber ; (abt 1 lb)
1 tablespoon Cider vinegar
1 One half teaspoon Sugar
One fourth teaspoon Dried hot red pepper flakes
Salt; to taste
1 lg Egg white
1 tablespoon Soy sauce
One half teaspoon Grated peeled fresh ginger
root
Three fourths pound Salmon fillet; skin
discarded,
And fish cut 1/4" pieces
One half cup Fine fresh bread crumbs
2 Scallions; chopped fine
1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
1 teaspoon Vegetable oil
4 small Greenleaf lettuce leaves
8 sl Firm pumpernickel ; (abt 10
oz)

With a Japanese rotary slicer, cut cucumber into 1 long spiral.
(Alternatively, with a sharp knife cut cucumber into very thin
slices.) In a bowl toss cucumber with vinegar, sugar, red pepper
flakes, and salt to taste. In another bowl whisk together egg white,
soy sauce and ginger root until combined well and stir in salmon,
bread crumbs, scallions, mustard seeds, and salt to taste. In a food
processor puree 1/3 cup salmon mixture and return to salmon mixture
remaining in bowl. (Alternatively, chop 1/3 cup salmon mixture fine
and mash to a paste with flat side of a knife.) Stir mixture to
combine and form into four 3/4inchthick patties. Drain cucumber
well. In a large nonstick skillet heat oil over moderatelyhigh heat
until hot but not smoking and cook patties until golden, about 2
minutes on each side. Cook patties, covered, over moderate heat until
just cooked through, about 5 minutes more. Arrange lettuce leaves on 4
pumpernickel slices and top with salmon burgers, pickled cucumber, and
remaining 4 pumpernickel slices. This recipe yields 4 sandwiches.

Comments: To slice the cucumber in the above recipe into a paperthin
spiral, we used a Japanese rotary device known as the Benriner
vegetable slicer. This gadget is available from Katagiri, 224 East
59th Street, New York, NY 10022 tel. (212) 7553566 and through the
Williams Sonoma catalogue tel. (800) 5412233 (ask for the "spiral
shredder").

Recipe Source: COOKING LIVE with Sara Moulton From the TV FOOD
NETWORK (Show # CL8647 broadcast 06051997) Downloaded from their
WebSite http://www.foodtv.com

Formatted for MasterCook by Joe Comiskey, aka MR MAD
jpmd44a@prodigy.com or MADSQUAD@prodigy.net

12051998

Recipe by: Sara Moulton

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