Smoked Salmon Bagel
These smoked salmon bagel sandwiches are filled with lemon chive cheese, pickled red onions, and capers for the tastiest bagel sandwich!
Servings 2 people
Equipment
- 1 Spatula
- 1 small mixing bowl
- 1 Small knife To chop chives and cut the lemon
- 1 Serrated knife To slice the bagel
- 1 Small cutting Board
Ingredients
- 2 Whole Bagels Everything, plain, ect
- 4 oz Smoked Salmon
- 1 TBSP Pickled red onion to taste
- 1 TBSP Capers to taste
- Drizzle of olive oil optional
Cream Cheese Spread
- salt and pepper to taste
- ½ Lemon zested and juiced
- 2 TBSP Fresh chopped chives or sub with chopped scallions/green onions and/or fresh dill
- 4 oz Cream cheese spread or softened cream cheese
Instructions
For the Lemon Chive Cream Cheese
- To a small bowl, add the 4 oz of cream cheese spread or softened cream cheese. Zest ¼ of a lemon and add, and then cut the lemon in half and juice half of the lemon into the cream cheese.
- Add the 2 TBSP chopped fresh chives and salt and pepper to taste and stir to combine. Set aside.
For the Bagels
- Cut two bagels in half and toast them in a toaster.
- Top each bagel half with the lemon chive cream cheese, 2oz of smoked salmon for each bagel sandwich, pickled red onion, then capers. Drizzle a touch of olive oil over each slice (optional). Put the two halves of each bagel sandwich together, cut in half with a serrated knife, and serve immediately.