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Talk about bang for your buck. This one is so easy to make, we hesitate to even call it a recipe. Basically, you take all the best parts of a bagel and lox, chop it all together, and mix it with a hefty amount of scallion cream cheese, then smear it back on the bagel (which you toasted while you were doing all that chopping).
Everything Chopped on an Everything Bagel
Makes 4 sandwiches
Prep time: 12 minutes
Cook time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
For the Scallion Cream Cheese: (or substitute a store-bought savory cream cheese)
8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
4 scallions, thinly sliced
Zest of 1 lemon
½ teaspoon fresh lemon juice
For the Chopped Gravlax:
4 ounces gravlax
1 tablespoon capers in brine, drained
2 slices of seeded Roma tomato
2 slices of thinly sliced red onion
For the Arugula Mix:
1 cup arugula
Zest of ¼ lemon
Juice of ½ lemon
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
For the sandwich assembly:
4 everything bagels, sliced in half lengthwise and toasted
Kosher salt
Ground black pepper
Directions
Make the scallion cream cheese: In a medium bowl, soften the cream cheese using a rubber spatula. Add the scallions, lemon zest and juice, a pinch of salt, and pepper. Mix until well combined. Remove ¼ cup of the mixture and reserve for assembly.
Make the chopped gravlax: Place the gravlax, capers, tomatoes, and onions on a clean cutting board. Roughly chop the ingredients together. Add the chopped mixture to the bowl with the remaining scallion cream cheese and fold together gently with a rubber spatula until evenly combined.
Prepare the arugula Mix: In a separate bowl, toss the arugula with the lemon zest, juice, and olive oil. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
Build the sandwiches: Start with the bottom half of the bagel and spread on scallion cream cheese. Add the chopped gravlax mixture, followed by a handful of arugula mix. Finish with the top half of the bagel.
Excerpted from Idiot Sandwich. Copyright © 2025 by Studio Ramsay Global LLC. Reprinted courtesy of Harper Influence, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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