European Locks - Recipe Inside

European Locks have been a household favorite in my family for a long time. There's just something about the mixture of salmon, cream cheese, cilantro and lemon that clashes beautifully in your mouth. It's great for all seasons, simple and easy to make, and it doesn't take much time at all. While I do not put measurements for specific ingredients most of the time, I do not do so here with this as Salmon is one of those tricky things to cook according to peoples tastes. Many are picky about their fish, so while using here the basic ingredients that I use for my version of these nummy bagel entrees, I continue to let you cater to your tastes with my recipes.

Ingredients:

1 package of fresh salmon

Bagels - (My preference is Onion bagels but as long as it's not sweet, you can use what you like)

1 clove of Fresh chopped garlic

Basil

Salt

Pepper

Lemon juice (to your taste) 

Cilantro

Butter (not margarine)

Green Bell Peppers (optional)

Cream Cheese

Directions: 

Throw the salmon into the fryer with about two table spoons of garlic, immediately add the garlic, basil, pepper, and salt in there. This is usually do your taste but as you can see in my picture below, I season it rather heavily. I also cook the lemon juice in with the salmon about midway at it's done point, though most prefer to wait to squeeze it on there after it's all the way done cooking.

Now when one cooks their salmon for the locks they have several choices, they can choose to keep their salmon together in slices or chunks, or they can be like me and just go ahead and chuck it as it's cooking:

Why do I do this? Well, because salmon falls apart. It crumbles and that's why it's easy to blend and what not. I don't chuck it into tiny pieces either, or it would be too difficult to keep on your bagel. So just medium sized little chunks. When your salmon is almost done cooking, that's when you're going to toast your bagel, chop your cilantro and slice your green (and optional) bell peppers. 

Smother your bagel in cream cheese, top the salmon and cilantro, sliced peppers, maybe a little bit more salt and pepper and lemon juice, slap em together and enjoy!