Shrimp Cheese Cake

Shrimp Cheese Cake

For my Easter table I made a Shrimp Cheese Cake. Here is the recipe! Cheese Cake is really an American sweet dessert. However this is a variation with swedish tastes that can be used on the "Smörgåsbord" or as a starter. It is the first time I have tried this and I loved it. 

Ingredients:

Bottom

1 dl sesame seeds

½ dl sunflower seeds

½ dl cashew nuts

½ dl almond flour

1 dl linseeds

75 g unsalted butter

1 tsp salt

Filling

4 gelatin sheets

1 red onion

3 tbs dill

300 g cream cheese naturel

4 dl crème fraiche

½ dl mayonnaise

4 tbs shredded horseradish

½ jar lumpfish roe

Season with salt and black pepper

Garnish

200 g shrimps

½ jar lumpfish roe/caviar

Instructions

Heat oven to 175 Celsius degrees

Bottom:

Mix sesame seeds, cashew nuts and sunflower seeds in a blender. Don´t mix too much, you want some bigger crunches. Blend in almond flour, linseeds and salt. Mix with the butter and press the mixture into a Springform pan about 20-25 cm in diameter. 

Bake for 15 minutes in the oven. Cool off. 

Filling:

Peel the shrimps and chop them to big bite pieces. Put the gelatin sheets in a bowl cold water for five minutes. Chop the red onion and dill fine.

Mix cream cheese, 3 dl crème fraiche, mayonnaise and horseradish in a bowl. Heat 1 dl crème fraiche in a pan. Squeeze the water out of the gelatin sheets and put them in the heated crème fraiche and stir until they have melted.

Pour the gelatin mixture into the bowl with mayonnaise, cream cheese and the rest of the crème fraiche. Stir in the chopped red onion, dill, shrimps and half the lumpfish roe / caviar, black pepper and salt. 

Pour the mixture in the cooled off springform. Cover with plastic foil and put in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.

Serving take off the springform (leave it on the bottom and place on a serving tray.Peel the shrimps for the garnish and decorate the cheesecake with the shrimps, lumpfish roe/caviar.