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New York Bagel with Lox and Cream Cheese

Toasted bagel, cream cheese, silky lox, capers, and red onion — the iconic New York breakfast.

⏱ 10 minPrep time
🔥 0 minCook time
🍽 2Servings
🏷 BreakfastCategory
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Bagel with smoked salmon, cream cheese, red onion and capers

The bagel with lox and cream cheese is the definitive New York breakfast — a chewy, toasted bagel spread with cream cheese and draped with silky cured salmon, capers, red onion, and tomato. From the Lower East Side delis to every brunch table in the city, it never goes out of style.

Chef Emily presents New York Bagel with Lox and Cream Cheese

The definitive New York brunch

A chewy toasted bagel, cream cheese, and silky lox with capers and red onion — the city’s most iconic breakfast.

Step by stepInstructions

  1. Spread a generous layer of cream cheese on each bagel half.
  2. Drape the lox over the cream cheese, folding it into loose ribbons.
  3. Scatter with capers, red onion, and tomato.
  4. Top with dill if you like, close the bagel or serve open-faced, and eat immediately.

💡 Chef tips & storage

Schmear the cream cheese edge to edge — no bare bagel. Ask for lox sliced thin and serve the onion and capers on the side so everyone builds their own.

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Recipe details

Prep10 min
Cook0 min
Servings2
CategoryBreakfast
PublishedAugust 16, 2026
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