Yesterday I came home to a wonderful surprise GalaxyFoods sent me a sample of their new vegan cream cheese. As soon as i saw it I knew that we would be having bagels for dinner. However these were not going to be your average bagels with cream cheese these were going to be taken up a notch and be bagels with (no)lox.
I am ridiculously proud of my creation and how much it really looks like a bagel with lox. I used super thinly sliced tomato and onions (done on the mandolin), vegan cream cheese, and capers.
A few tips on how to make these really tasty is to
1. Cut the bagel in thirds This allows you to still have that yummy bagel but also place the toppings on and now have them all fall off when you eat them. It just makes things a little more eye appealing as well.
2. Soak your red onions. If you are a raw onion or red onion hater soaking the thinly sliced red onion in cold water for 10 minutes is helpful in reducing the sharp flavor. The Hubz is not an onion lover especially raw and he didn’t mind them this way.
What is your favorite bagel topping?
I certainly have had my fair share of bagels, being from NY, and I used to LOVE lox with capers and cream cheese. Yours certainly do look like the real thing. I try not to eat either much anymore, but when I get a real hankering for bagels, I like onion bagels with Tofutti and tomato or cinnamon-raisin bagels with Tofutti and banana. There are also so many “cream cheese” options here that sometimes I just like a plain bagel with some flavored cream cheese. Nice idea to add the capers.
So how would you compare Galaxy cream cheese to Tofutti?
Wow you sure did fool me!! I really thought that was lox! I love a good bagel (everything bagels are my #1, but my local bagel shop makes an awesome multigrain that I’ve been addicted to) with cream cheese. My favorite toppings (and basically the only way I’ll eat bagels now..) is with a healthy spread of vegan cream cheese (my fav is Tofutti) with slices of tomato and cucumber. Topped with freshly ground pepper and sea salt. Yummm. I wish I had some bagels right now!
As a New Yorker these are talking to me like no other. I am going to be having these for breakfast for sure. Just need to go get some bagels now (which will not measure up to New York, but hey they will taste great with those items on there.
I am so excited. Thanks for creating this ingenious idea.
Yum those look really good. And they really do look exactly like a bagel with lox! Did you like the Galaxy Foods cream cheese?
Those look very much like salmon at 1st glance before I read I though it was.
They look like they would be very good. How did you like the cream cheese?
Nice pic! I’m a sucker for photogenic food. š I’m also a bagel addict. There’s always either homemade tofu cream cheese or garlic dill hummus in my fridge.
This looks really good! I’m going to try this w/ thinkly sliced roasted red peppers instead of the tomatoes… the texture and taste of roasted red peppers will probably be damn close to smoked salmon!
Absolutely! Good call
Or better yet, grill the red pepper and/or tomatoes with a little smoking wood. Not too much, I think, so you don’t kill the essence of the veg. One of those stove top smokers would probably be great for this. A little smoked paprika maybe.
this looks GOOOOOD. before I clicked over I was wondering HOW did you DO that?? totally looks like lox!
I love THIS as a bagel topping! this exact combination is what I usually crave when I want a bagel sandwich!