Quarantine Kitchen Presents: Homemade Baked Bagels


We might be guilty of focusing more on our baked goods than how our hair looks.  After the success of Banana Nut Bread (minus the nuts), we took on our next boys who bake (plus me) project---homemade baked bagels.  We love bagels.  They are usually a staple on the grocery list and in our household.  They are great plain, with cream cheese, as a breakfast sandwich with egg and bacon, with hummus, with tomato, with avocado...they are super versatile.  When my friend Janell posted about a three ingredient bagel she and her kids made during quarantine, I needed no convincing that this would be something for us to try too.


Three ingredients you say?  Yay...oh wait, we don't have the ingredients needed.  Devastation.  A week or so went by and after one late night grocery run, my husband found the ingredients we needed.  Lifesaver!  I'll post a link to the recipe we used below, but basically you make a quick dough.  You cut your dough ball into quarters.  You form the dough into round balls and poke a hole through the middle until it resembles a mini bagel.  Next, you can get creative.  You take an egg wash and paint it on the bagel dough.  Now the bagels are ready to be seasoned with your preference of spices.  We still had some Trader Joe's Everything but the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend spice mix so it seemed like a no brainer.  We used that for three of the four bagels we were baking.  The last bagel had cinnamon and some sort of lime seasoning...it's really hard not to let the younger one put together weird flavor profiles...but I did.  I'm growing as a parent in quarantine.  Lol.


After the bagels baked in the oven, we took them out, let them cool, and sliced them open and made salami, cheese, and mustard sandwiches on them.  Mmm, mmm, mmm.  Tasty.  Healthier (less weird ingredients than store bought bagels). A new recipe success.  Thank you Janell!


Baked Bagel Recipe:
https://bestrecipebox.com/easy-bagel-recipe/

Ingredients:
1 cup plain, thick non-fat Greek yogurt
1 cup self rising flour (you can use all purpose like we did...just add 2 tsp baking powder plus 1/4 tsp salt)
1 large egg beaten (for the egg wash after bagel shapes are formed)
Bagel toppings of your choice (or your kiddos choice if you are brave)

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