Cheesy Lox Bagel Breakfast Casserole

Description

This delicious breakfast casserole combines bagels with the traditional flavors of lox, cream cheese, and dill in a wonderfully different form! This is a standby in our family cookbook!

Ingredients

  • nonstick cooking spray
  • 3 bagel (4″ dia)s plain bagels, split
  • 4 large eggs
  • ½ cup all-purpose baking mix
  • ¼ cup milk
  • 7 ounces smoked salmon or lox, diced
  • 1 medium white onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 2 (8 ounce) packages light cream cheese, softened
  • 1 ½ cups sour cream
  • ⅓ cup chopped fresh dill
  • ½ cup shredded reduced-fat Swiss cheese
  • ½ cup shredded reduced-fat Monterey Jack cheese
  • ground black pepper to taste
  • ½ cup chopped fresh chives

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spray a 9×13-inch pan with nonstick spray.
  2. Toast bagels.
  3. Beat eggs
  4. baking mix
  5. and milk in a bowl until well blended. Toss salmon
  6. onion
  7. and garlic together in a second bowl. Whip cream cheese
  8. sour cream
  9. and dill together in a third bowl.
  10. Cut toasted bagels into bite-sized pieces and place in the bottom of the prepared pan. Pour 1/2 of the egg mixture over the bagels
  11. top with salmon mixture
  12. then sprinkle with 1/2 of the Swiss and Monterey Jack cheeses. Pour in remaining egg mixture
  13. top with cream cheese mixture
  14. and sprinkle with remaining cheese. Season with pepper.
  15. Cover and bake in the center of the preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes. Uncover and bake until egg is set and cheese is nice and bubbly
  16. about 10 minutes more.
  17. Sprinkle chives over top and serve hot.

Prep Time: 25 mins

Cook Time: 20 mins

Total Time: 45 mins

Servings: 10

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