Everything but the Bagel Salmon Dip

This recipe is based on my most recent recipe, Everything but the Bagel Salmon. The reaction to it was so good. I started getting so many ideas as to how to recreate our favourite bagel into other things.

This dip could also be a salad, somewhere along the lines of a tuna salad slash fish dip. It really just depends on how you eat it.

Using all the usual suspects from a smoked salmon bagel order, this dish tastes very similar to that bagel. In fact, the only thing that would make this better is if you ate it with a bagel. It goes well with bread or crackers too.

Makes about 2 cups

Ingredients:

2 salmon fillets

2 tsp ‘everything but the bagel’ seasoning

1 tbsp butter

1 tsp oil

2 tbsp cream cheese

1 tbsp sour cream

zest of a lemon

juice of half a lemon

2 tbsp ‘everything but the bagel’ seasoning

1/2 a small red onion, diced

2 spring onion stalks, sliced

handful of chopped dill

handful of capers, drained

1/2 a cucumber, grated

pinch of salt

drizzle of oil to finish

Method:

In a preheated pan over medium heat, drizzle in oil and add the salmon fillets skin side down. Season with 1 tsp ‘everything but the bagel’ seasoning on each fillet and put the lid on. Cook for 2-3 minutes, then flip and put the lid back on. Cook for another 2 minutes, then add butter. Cook for 1 minute longer, then turn off the heat. Flip the salmon fillets back on the skin side and let them sit in the pan with the heat off and lid on for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, let them cool.

Chop the onion, spring onion, cucumber and dill. Squeeze the water out of the cucumber and allow to drain. Place the onion and spring onion in an ice bath to make them more crunchy. Leave for 5 minutes then drain completely of water.

Once cooled, press down with a fork and begin flaking the salmon, remove the skin. Once it’s flaked small like tuna, add in the remaining ingredients — cream cheese, sour cream, lemon zest, lemon juice, 2 tbsp ‘everything’ seasoning, red onion, spring onion, dill, capers, cucumber and salt.

Mash together until a salad/ dip texture forms and everything is cohesive. Garnish with extra ‘everything but the bagel’ seasoning, olive oil and salt.

Enjoy with bread, crackers or in between a bagel.