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Hot Smoked Salmon Salad with Arugula, Avocado, and Pumpkin Seeds
For this fast weeknight meal, Nigella Lawson uses poached salmon and watercress. We preferred the convenience of hot-smoked salmon and widely available baby arugula. Unlike cold-smoked salmon, hot-smoked has texture similar to cooked salmon, but with an intensely smoky flavor with sweet, salty overtones.
4
Servings
Tip
Don’t assemble the salad until just before serving. Otherwise, the avocado will brown and the greens will begin to wilt.
15 minutes
Ingredients
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¼
cup lemon juice (about 1 lemon)
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2
tablespoons whole-grain mustard
Directions
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01In a large bowl, whisk together the lemon juice, mustard, honey, and ½ teaspoon each salt and pepper. Whisking constantly, add the oil in a stream until emulsified.
Reviews
November 23, 2025
Easy and Delicious
Truly enjoyed this simple-to-prepare elegant salad. Imagine a wonderful meal that requires no chopping! (Because I substituted sunflower seeds for the pepitas. They were great. )
March 10, 2025
Restaurant quality
I had a pkg of Hot smoked salmon from Costco, not their Kirkland brand and was looking for a way to use it when I found this recipe. It was delicious and tasted like we were eating in a good restaurant. We liked it so much we had it again and invited friends to join us for dinner.
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We smoke a side of salmon for our normal crew just before Thanksgiving. Then came 2020...a side of salmon for 2 people was a little over kill but then if there are ways to manage the leftovers then go for it! This is the perfect dish. I ended up freezing portions of the salmon for future use. We thawed the first batch today which was 8 days after smoking. I think I froze it roughly 3 days ago. There was no diminished quality in the salmon. The recipe was perfect for this day (after work) and the leftover fish. I did "roast" the pepitas in a fying pan with a little olive oil so that the salt would adhere. They worked perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. Great recipe