Whitefish Salad
Updated April 16, 2024
- Total Time
- 15 minutes
- Prep Time
- 10 minutes
- Cook Time
- 5 minutes
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Ingredients
Yield:About 2¼ cups
- 2(packed) cups flaked smoked whitefish (about 12 ounces)
- ½small white onion, minced
- 1stalk celery, minced
- 2fresh dill sprigs, minced
- 1lemon, juiced, or more to taste
- 1tablespoon mayonnaise, or more to taste
- Freshly ground black pepper
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Nutritional analysis per serving (4 servings)
129 calories; 4 grams fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 1 gram monounsaturated fat; 2 grams polyunsaturated fat; 3 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram dietary fiber; 1 gram sugars; 20 grams protein; 897 milligrams sodium
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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- Step 1
Put 1½ cups of the whitefish into a medium bowl. Finely mince the remaining ½ cup, then gently stir it into the flaked fish.
- Step 2
Add the onion, celery, dill, lemon juice and mayonnaise and stir to combine. Taste it, and adjust as you like, with more lemon or mayonnaise. (The lemon really makes this whitefish salad shine.) Season to taste with pepper. Whitefish salad keeps, covered and refrigerated, for up to 3 days.
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Cooking Notes
Lori F in NYC
For those who can't find whitefish: Acme Smoked Fish is Brooklyn based, but it supplies stores (including Costco) all over the country. It's not Zabars, but it's entirely credible. You can get local information details here: https://acmesmokedfish.com/pages/where-to-buy. (We're doing homemade gravlax in lieu of gefilte this year but I'll be making this recipe soon. It sounds perfect.)
TJ
Where do you buy smoked whitefish? I live in New Orleans, not the UWS.
The Meshugana Gadfly
Well, then, just move :)
Lucinda
We add horseradish to the mix to give it an edge. Great recipe!
Stewart
Saying that Acme Smoked Fish is not Zabars is like saying it's not Long John Silvers. Acme's smoked fish -- especially their various salmons, but the whitefish is also top-quality -- is arguably the best in the entire country. I've certainly never found better.
liz
Trader Joes sells smoked trout
ab
I use creme fraiche and no mayo. use some shallots, chopped capers and salt and pepper. I modeled my recipe after Russ and daughters and barney greengrass.
PF
Smoked whitefish is available online at Zabar's website.
Rose Katzin
If whitefish is unavailable, then buy canned smoked trout or mackerel from Trader Joe. Also, mayo is not "pesadika". Perhaps use a bit of sour cream or even the oil ( ?Mashed avocado?) from the tin? Will be interested to read others' suggestions.
Sae
Whole Foods sells smoked whitefish
Krista
This recipe is fantastic and way better than any whitefish salad I’ve ever eaten. I didn’t have fresh dill but no matter. I had celery from our organic farm with beautiful leaves and used those instead-lots of them. Got my whitefish from Murray’s Sturgeon Shop in NYC. A very nice young man took every bone out for me and the whitefish was so delicious on its own I could’ve eaten eat plain.
Sam, NJ
I was looking for smoked whitefish and I found a whitefish salad at my supermarket so I bought that instead. It is Acme smoked fish! It was really good.
Rich Herold
For 2 cups of flaked whitefish, how much whitefish to buy (by weight)?
Mortadella
If it helps some of you to find them, when I worked my way through college in the Jewish delis, the large whitefish were "Selkirks" and the small, oiler ones were "chubs". Looking forward to making this recipe. Lookout gout!
AR
I have seen ACME at zabar's appetizing counter!
Mark G.
Not bad but for me I think less onion and more mayo. Capers might be good too.
Margaret
Is smoked trout an acceptable substitute?
Joel Cortez
Just needs some sable and some capers and it would really be a great sandwich.
Judd
The whitefish I know is "Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)" from Lake Superior. We buy it fresh and smoked from fisheries in Wisconsin and Minnesota located along the shore of Lake Superior. Many recipes in NYT and elsewhere refer to "whitefish" in a more generic way and it seems refer to halibut, cod, and any other kind of fish with white flaky flesh. What kind of whitefish does this (and other) recipes refer to.
Ken
I've had "smoked whitefish" on the Upper West Side, and am very familiar with the smoked whitefish prepared and sold along the North Shore (of Lake Superior, esp. Knife River, MN). They are one and the same. If you have access to North Shore smoked whitefish, have at it!
Jessica
You can swap out smoked trout for white fish
Sae
Whole Foods sells smoked whitefish
Rose Katzin
If whitefish is unavailable, then buy canned smoked trout or mackerel from Trader Joe. Also, mayo is not "pesadika". Perhaps use a bit of sour cream or even the oil ( ?Mashed avocado?) from the tin? Will be interested to read others' suggestions.
I'm the cook in this home
There is Passover mayo. It's awful but in such a small amount it should be ok
PF
Smoked whitefish is available online at Zabar's website.
H
Ever since our granddaughter found a bone, we've put our whitefish through the food processor when they'll be eating it. We get our smoked whitefish from a meat market in central Minnesota (who knew?). As good as any I've had in NY or Washington DC. My Brooklyn raised parents would have loved it.
Michele
What's your Minnesota source? I'm in the Twin Cities...
Michele
I discovered that Byerly's / Lunds in the Twin Cities has wild-caught smoked whitefish from Canada.
ab
I use creme fraiche and no mayo. use some shallots, chopped capers and salt and pepper. I modeled my recipe after Russ and daughters and barney greengrass.
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