Bagels And Lox Cream Cheese Board Recipe

This bagels and lox cream cheese board lets you experiment with you next cheese board, while munching on delicious brunch staples. It's hard to be a living, breathing human on the Internet today without knowing about the butter board craze. In an economy that is somehow both shrinking and expanding, the most basic of kitchen staple, fat, has become a fad, leading to budding TikTok cooks everywhere treating it as painter's palette.

But according to food Blogger Ksenia Prints of At the Immigrant's Table, cream cheese is an even better vehicle for yummy brunch goodness than butter ever was, and assembling your own bagels and lox cream cheese board is a matter of letting your creativity run free. This cream cheese board is arranged in the same way as a butter board, or a hummus plate, if you will. A main ingredient is spread across a cutting board, arranged in artful waves or short streaks of paint. Then, various ingredients are thrown around on it, with the single goal of making it look as effortless as possible. Think of it as an edible abstract painting, and yourself as Jackson Pollock.

Next time you have guests coming over for brunch, put together this bagels and lox cream cheese board for a new way to serve this delicious salty and creamy brunch staple.

To make this board, you will need much the same things needed to make a typical bagel with lox. Grab a couple of packages of cream cheese, a few smoked salmon slices, Lebanese cucumbers, tomatoes, red onion, capers, fresh dill, bagels, and a couple of lemon slices.

Preheat the oven to the broil or grill setting, or set the oven to 500 F. Arrange the halved bagels on a baking sheet face up, and toast for 2 minutes, watching closely to make sure the bagels don't burn.

Using a butter knife, generously spread the softened cream cheese on a serving board. Working with one ingredient at a time, begin to arrange the salmon slices, sliced cucumber, sliced tomato, capers, and fresh dill in an artful way on top of the cream cheese. The key is to space out the ingredients, not having more than one of each ingredient together, and even trying to keep similar colors from sticking together. It's okay to have some overlap between different ingredients. 

Finish by arranging the toasted bagel halves around the board. You can also serve them on the side, if you prefer, alongside the sliced lemons. Serve your prepared cream cheese board immediately, while the bagels are toasted, and the toppings are fresh. Your guests can either dip their bagel halves into the board, or use a butter knife to spread their chosen toppings onto bagels. Leftovers will keep in an airtight container for 2 days.