Smoked salmon bagel with whipped cottage cheese
13 min · 37 g protein · 362 cals / serving
The New York deli lox bagel: a toasted, scooped everything bagel spread thick with cottage cheese whipped silky with lemon, dill and chives, then piled with ribbons of smoked salmon, salty capers, paper-thin red onion, tomato and cool cucumber. Smoky, briny and fresh in every bite.
Ingredients
Whipped cottage cheese
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp cottage cheese (1%)
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
- 1 tbsp fresh chives, snipped
- a few grinds black pepper
- 2 bagels, well scooped whole wheat bagel, everything or whole wheat, split and the soft middles scooped out
- 5 oz smoked salmon, cold-smoked (lox)
- 1/4 small red onion, sliced paper-thin
- 1 tbsp capers, drained
- 1 medium tomato, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cucumber, thinly sliced
To finish
- 1/2 tsp everything bagel seasoning
Steps
- Blend the cottage cheese with the lemon zest and juice in a mini chopper or with a stick blender for about 1 minute, until completely smooth and glossy like cream cheese. Stir in the dill, chives and pepper.
- Split the bagels and pull out some of the soft crumb from each half with your fingers (the New York deli 'scooped' bagel), leaving a shell about 1 cm thick. Toast until the edges are crisp.
- Spread every half thickly with the whipped cottage cheese. Layer on the cucumber and tomato, drape over the smoked salmon, and finish with the red onion, capers and a pinch of everything seasoning. Eat open-faced or close into two sandwiches.
Good to know
Why scoop the bagel?
Delis have done it on request for decades: it makes room for more filling, the toasted shell gets crisper, and the sandwich is easier to bite. Toast the scooped-out crumb into crumbs for another day, or leave the bagel whole if you prefer it bready.
Can I use cream cheese?
Yes, it is the classic spread and tastes richer and tangier. Light cream cheese mixed half and half with the whipped cottage cheese keeps the deli flavour with a lighter spread; full-fat cream cheese on its own, 2 tablespoons a bagel, makes it about 46 instead of 70.
Make it ahead?
Whip the cottage cheese up to three days ahead and keep it covered in the fridge. Build the bagel just before eating so it stays crisp.
Per
- Calories
- 87
- Protein
- (42%)
- 9 g
- Fat
- (15%)
- 1 g
- Carbohydrates
- (43%)
- 10 g
- of which sugar
- 3 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 344 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
As written, 724 kcal goes into the pot and 841 g of ingredients comes out as about 830 g of food: 87 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.