Recipe: Balkanese Cucumber 'Baskets'

1/Get the 2 cucumber halfes soaked and dry them

2/Cut the smoked salmon into 16 small rhombus and keep the off cuts

3/Blend the cottage cheese, the yoghurt, the salmon off cuts, season with salt and pepper then add the paprika and the chervil stems and continue blending

4/Transfer the mixture into a salad bowl then add the leaves (keep some for the final decoration) of the chervil, roughly chopped and keep the mixture a little while into the fridge

5/Put the mixture into a piping bag and fill the cucumber halfes with it

6/Align 8 smoked salmon pieces (rhombus) on each cucumber half and top them with a few salmon eggs and one leave of chervil

7/Cut each filled cucumber half into 8 pieces with a knife and place them onto a nice serving dish for a nice small summer appetizer