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Ham Salad Vol-au-Vents Recipe

Ham Salad Vol-au-Vents

Homemakers Best Tested
By
Andrew Chase
A simple French-style ham salad is enriched with barely hard-cooked eggs for this vol-au-vent filling. Of course, if you wish, you can serve this salad on croustades or thin slices of baguette.

Ingredients

1 large stalk celery
6 oz  (175 g)  smoked ham, finely diced
2 tbsp  (30 mL)  diced cornichons (French-style sour gherkins ) or mini dill pickles
2 eggs, at room temperature
2 tsp  (10 mL)  sherry vinegar or white wine vinegar
2 tsp  (10 mL)  Dijon mustard
3 tbsp  (45 mL)  extra-virgin olive oil
3 tbsp  (45 mL)  mayonnaise
Pinch each salt and white pepper
Small Vol-au-Vents:

Preparation

Peel strings from celery; cut crosswise into a few pieces. In saucepan of boiling water, blanch celery for 30 seconds; chill under cold water. Drain and finely dice; transfer to bowl. Add ham and cornichons.

In saucepan of boiling water, cook eggs over high heat for 5 minutes; chill under cold water. Finely dice egg whites; add to bowl.

In separate bowl, mash together egg yolks, vinegar and mustard until smooth; whisk in oil, mayonnaise, salt and pepper. Scrape into ham mixture and mix well. Place 2 tbsp/30 mL ham salad in each of the vol-au-vents.

Makes 16 pieces.

Make-ahead: Refrigerate salad for up to 1 day. Fill vol-au-vents just before serving. 

Serving(s)
16 pieces
Nutritional Information
Per piece: about
Calories 141
Protein 4 g
Fat (total) 10 g
Sat. Fat 3 g
Carbohydrate 8 g
Fibre 1 g
Cholesterol 50 mg
Sodium 223 mg
Calcium 1 % RDI
Iron 6 % RDI
Vitamin A 4 % RDI
Folate 3 % RDI

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Source

Homemakers Magazine: December/January 2008

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