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Smoked Salmon Bagel Board

Name: Smoked Salmon Bagel Board
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 bagels, split and toasted; 200 g smoked salmon; 200 g cream cheese; 1 lemon; Dill; Capers; 1 red onion, sliced; Cucumber, sliced; Black pepper

A board is about contrast — cool cure against warm toast, sharp caper against soft cheese..

By Dana Reyes

Published 23 Sep 2026 · Tested 2 times · 0 comments

Smoked Salmon Bagel Board — Lay it out generous and let people build their own.

15 min

Prep time

0 min

Cook time

Serves

4.7

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A board is about contrast — cool cure against warm toast, sharp caper against soft cheese.

Whip the cream cheese with dill and lemon so it spreads and tastes of more than the tub.

We tested toasting or not. Warm, split bagels against cold toppings is the texture play, so toast them.

Instructions

About 15 min from start to finish

Whip the cream cheese with lemon, dill and pepper.

Arrange the bagels, salmon, cream cheese and veg on a board.

Scatter capers and onion; finish with cracked pepper.

Testing notes & substitutions

Three rounds of testing turned up three things worth knowing before you start cooking.

Cheaper

Trade half the salmon for a soft-scrambled egg topping.

More board

Add tomato, avocado or boiled eggs to fill it out.

Questions we get a lot

Can I prep it?

Whip the cheese and slice veg ahead; assemble just before so nothing weeps.

Other fish?

Trout or gravlax stand in for salmon without changing a thing.

Dana Reyes

Dana has cooked professionally for eleven years and has been testing recipes for Hearth & Thyme since 2019. She writes about weeknight cooking, slow breads, and the small techniques that quietly change a dish. Every recipe she publishes is cooked at least twice, in an ordinary home oven.