Baked Salmon & Avocado Salad

My current go-to bagel order is a baked salmon salad on an everything bagel – sounds weird, but it’s delicious. But when I’m at home, I’m not the biggest mayo fan, so I was looking to make a version of this addicting baked salmon salad spread without having to use any of the mayo. Enter scene: Baked Salmon & Avocado Salad.

It’s creamy, rich, spicy and just filled with everything I love about a good baked salmon salad spread. You can find out more here on how I make my favorite bagel order.

What is baked salmon salad?

Originally, baked salmon salad is very similar to tuna salad, but you can find it more commonly as a bagel spread. A baked salmon salad recipe traditionally has mayo, dill weed, celery, old bay seasoning and garlic powder.

A bunch of things that are not my favorite.

So that’s the beauty of making a salmon salad spread that I could call my own. I wanted it to be healthy, filling, delicious and taste how I wanted it to taste. And that’s why we use avocado in this version!

Ingredients you will need for this salmon salad recipe

Let’s be honest, it’s the weekend and you don’t want to be cooking breakfast, but just merely *assembling* breakfast. Here are all the ingredients (and leftovers lol) that I recommend you use when making this recipe:

• 4 ounces leftover salmon, must be cooked
• 1/4 large avocado, ripe
• 1/2 small shallot, diced
• 1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley, minced
• 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
• 1 teaspoon sambal oelek, or your hot sauce of choice
• Zest from 1/2 lemon
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 large bagel, toasted and sliced in half

How to make this baked salmon salad spread with avocado

It’s breakfast, so when we’re making this salmon salad with avocado, let’s keep things simple. Use leftovers to your advantage and make sure that everything is super low maintenance. Here are my quick-and-dirty instructions for your weekend brunch:

1. Use a large flat surface, like a cutting board, and add the salmon, avocado, shallot, parsley, mustard, sambal and lemon zest.
2. Use a fork to mash all the ingredients together until you get the consistency of a baked salmon salad spread. Think of it as well combined and creamy, but still slightly chunky.
3. Season with salt and pepper to taste and mash again.
4. Toast your bagel and top with the salmon spread.
5. Serve whenever!

Looking for more breakfast recipes?

I got you – breakfast is my favorite. Here are some of my top recipes for an easy, healthy one:

And that’s it for this Baked Salmon Salad with Avocado!

If you make it, please tag me on Pinterest or Instagram so I can see! It’s my favorite thing to scroll through stories and see what you all are making <3

And of course feel free to leave any questions, comments or reviews! This is the best place to reach me, and I’d love to hear from you.