Description
Impress your guests with a Breakfast Bagel Sandwich Board featuring a vibrant Beet Cream Cheese Spread. It’s a beautiful and delicious DIY breakfast that’s hard to…beet!
Ingredients
- Beet Cream Cheese Spread (makes 3 cups)
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 (16 ounce) jar Aunt Nellie’s Diced Pickled Beets, drained
- 2 tablespoons honey, plus extra for garnish
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill, plus extra for garnish
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 10 bagels (sesame, everything, plain, etc.)
- 6 fruit skewers made with:
- 12 Aunt Nellie’s Baby Whole Pickled Beets
- 12 green grapes
- 6 whole strawberries
- 6 wooden skewers
- 8 Aunt Nellie’s Sliced Pickled Beets, drained
- 1/4 cup capers
- 2 tablespoons everything bagel seasoning
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 small cucumber, thinly sliced
- 1/2 red onion, thinly sliced
- 12 ounces pre-sliced smoked salmon (lox)
- 5 radishes, thinly sliced
- 1 small avocado, thinly sliced
- 1 large lemon, sliced into thin rounds
- 5 hard-boiled eggs, halved
- Bunch of green grapes
- 1 cup microgreens
- Fresh dill sprigs, for garnishing
Instructions
- Make the Beet Cream Cheese Spread: Place the softened cream cheese, drained diced beets, honey, lemon juice, chopped dill, salt, and pepper into a food processor.
- Process until mostly smooth, pulsing toward the end so a few small beet bits remain visible for texture.
- Transfer to a serving bowl, cover, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes so the spread can firm back up into that classic cream cheese texture.
- Build the Board: Place the Beet Cream Cheese Spread in the center of a large round board. Garnish with diced beets, a drizzle of honey, and chopped fresh dill.
- Arrange the bagels in a cluster along top left side of the board.
- Make the fruit skewers by threading the fruit onto each skewer in this order: 1 baby beet, 1 green grape, 1 whole strawberry, 1 green grape, 1 baby beet. Repeat with remaining skewers until you have 6 total.
- Put the fruit skewers, sliced pickled beets, capers, everything bagel seasoning, and honey in separate small serving dishes and place around the remaining edges of the board.
- Fan out the cucumber rounds, red onion rings, smoked salmon, radishes, avocado slices, and lemon rounds in neat clusters around the bowl of beet cream cheese spread.
- Fill in the board with halved hard-boiled eggs, a bunch of green grapes, and microgreens.
- Sprinkle the hard-boiled eggs and smoked salmon with a little everything bagel seasoning. Sprinkle smoked salmon with some chopped fresh dill.
- Tuck in sprigs of fresh dill across the board.
- Encourage guests to build their own breakfast bagel sandwiches with the Beet Cream Cheese Spread and all the beautiful fixings.
- Make a Bagel Sandwich with the Beet Cream Cheese Spread: Toast a sesame seed bagel until golden. Spread a generous layer of Beet Cream Cheese Spread on both halves. Layer on cucumber slices, smoked salmon, red onion, and capers. Sprinkle with chopped fresh dill and everything bagel seasoning. Top with microgreens. Close the sandwich, slice in half if desired, and enjoy!