Smoked salmon is probably one of the things I miss most as a vegan. I really loved this stuff! Growing up, eating smoked salmon was something we did for the New Years and maybe birthdays. I always felt fancy when I had the left-overs as lunch the next day. So, when I saw that some people were transforming carrots into smoked salmon, I had to give it a go.
Here is what you need:
- 3 carrots
- 2 tsp tamari or soy sauce
- 1 tsp liquid smoke
Here is what you do:
- Wash and dry the carrots. Remove the skin if you want, but I left them there.
- With a potato peeler, make carrot slices.
- Cover a baking dish with aluminum foil, keeping in mind that you will have to cover the carrots with aluminum “papillote” style.
- Put the carrots in the dish and add in the tamari and liquid smoke. Mix until all the carrot pieces are well coated. Close the aluminum foil over.
- Put the carrots in a pre-heated oven at 400F. Let cook for 20 minutes, then lower the heat to 200F and let sit for 40 minutes.
- Chill before serving.
I served this with some vegan cream cheese (recipe coming) and some sunflower seed sprouts. This was so good!
So, the big question: does this taste like salmon? A little. The texture and liquid smoke flavour are similar. Of course the colour is helping make this more salmon-like. Honestly, I feel like this could pass for salmon to unknowing eaters.
I really like how easy this is to make and that it does not contain oil. I love it! Let me know if you try this out and what you think of it!
My Lighthearted Kitchen 
What a great idea!
🙂 I was very surprised that this worked!
I think it sounds great!
Hmm. I bought a small bottle of Liquid Smoke recently and was looking for a recipe to try it with. Looks like my lucky day! Thanks.
🙂 Let me know if you like it!
I can’t way to try this!
let me know how you like it! 🙂
This is awesome! I have a carrot at home that I didn’t know what I was gonna do with, but now I have an idea 🙂
Yes! Les me know how you like it 🙂
It was super yummy! Used it on toast with avocado
Super! I’m glad you liked it! And I’ll have to try it on avocado toast; what a great idea!
Very creative! Would go great with a recipe for cultured vegan cashew cream cheese I made a couple weeks ago! Thanks for sharing!
yes!!! perfect pairing!:)
Oooh! How civilized! Looking forward to your vegan cream cheese recipe too. I haven’t found a good commercial vegan or homemade cream cheese so I’m hopeful that yours will be “the one”.
You’re pushing me to write me recipe down! Thank you for your nice comment: I’ll start taking notes on my recipe 🙂
This is such an incredibly awesome idea!! I never even particularly liked smoked salmon haha but I bet this would be amazing 😀
You’ll have to try it out now! 🙂
I will, I will! This photo got me thinking now…you know how sweet potatoes are often also this same orange colour? I wonder if those could work as well!
What a great idea! I wonder if the cooking time/temperature would need to be change however… some kitchen-experiments to come! 🙂
I was looking for a recipe for this. Thanks!
My pleasure! Let me know how it turns out! 🙂
I can’t wait to try this. It looks so good.
Let me know how you like it! 🙂
Wow! Great discovery – will have to give it a go!
Yes! you must! It is so good! 🙂