Homemade High Protein Bagels

Learn how to make high protein bagels at home with just 5 ingredients! These bagels have a whopping 10 grams of protein per bagel and are made with greek yogurt and baking powder instead of yeast! So quick and easy to meal prep for breakfast throughout the week!

PROTEIN BAGELS.

Like, who am I? 

I could eat a bagel every day of my life if it wasn’t for those pesky little things called carbs. So we went ahead and balanced the scales a little bit by upping the protein in these quick and easy bagels and if you were to serve them with say, scrambled egg whites and cream cheese, I bet you could get around 30 grams of protein in your breakfast without even breaking a sweat!

But how could I even possibly like a baking powder leavened bagel instead of one with sourdough or yeast? This year, I’ve embarked upon a sourdough journey. And sometimes [read: most times] that comes with a lot of struggles before you get to a point where you enjoy adding flour, salt and water to a bowl and watching it rise on its own. 

Luckily, these high protein bagels require no previous cooking or baking skills. And before you freak out – don’t worry, there’s no whey protein powder or anything out of the ordinary in these bagels! If you can add all purpose flour, salt, baking powder, and some greek yogurt to a bowl, you can make protein bagels at home in a flash!

Brush your bagels with a beaten egg white, this adds more protein and gives the bagels a little bit of glue so that you can sprinkle them with your toppings of choice – sesame seeds, everything bagel seasoning, dehydrated garlic, poppy seeds, dried onion, or anything else you please!

And yes, air fryer friends, you don’t even have to turn the oven on if you don’t want to!

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Ingredients for protein bagels:

• All purpose flour: Both all purpose and bread flour will work for this recipe. The higher the protein in the flour, the crisper these bagels will be. Most high protein bagel recipes call for self-rising or self-raising flour. This is something I rarely have in the pantry. So I went ahead and made the recipe with regular flour. If you have self-rising flour at home and want to use it, see the notes under the recipe card.
• Baking powder: this is the leavening agent. We’ll add the baking powder and kosher salt to our dough and let it hang out for 5-10 minutes. This allows the baking powder to really be absorbed by the other ingredients and leaves us with one protein-packed bagel!
• Kosher salt: pretty self explanatory here! Use sea salt or kosher salt. Keep in mind that if you are using everything bagel seasoning that contains a lot of sodium, you might want to cut back on the salt.
• Greek yogurt: I like using full fat greek yogurt for this recipe. My favorite is Fage 5%, but 2% or even 0% will work. I do suggest using a higher fat percentage if possible though, I find it gives the bagels a better taste. And yes, vegan Greek yogurt should work well in place of traditional greek yogurt!
• Egg white: This is to egg wash the bagels with before we sprinkle them with our seasonings. 
• Seasoning of choice: I’m pretty picky when it comes to bagels! My seasoning of choice is always sesame seeds. You won’t see me straying anywhere from that, but you coiled use poppy seeds, dried onion flakes, garlic flakes, or everything bagel seasoning! I usually make sourdough bagels with Asiago cheese shredded right on top, and I can’t imagine that would be anything but delicious!!

How to my 5-ingredient protein bagel recipe at home:

1. Start by preheating the oven. Position a rack in the center of your oven and preheat the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set it aside for now.
2. Combine the dry ingredients. In a bowl, mix together your flour, baking powder, and kosher salt. If you wanted to flavor the bagel dough, with say, cinnamon, this would be a good time to do so! Whisk the dry ingredients so they are thoroughly combined.
3. Add in the greek yogurt. Add the yogurt and using your hands or a silicone spatula, bring the dough together. It’s going to be very crumbly in the beginning but as you work the dough, it will come together – I promise! The prep time on these in under 15 minutes!
4. Divide and roll it out. Once the dough starts holding its shape, dump it out onto a clean work surface. If your dough is sticky, you might want to flour the work surface. Divide into 6 pieces. Roll the dough into a thick rope, about 7-8 inches in length. Then connect the ends and gently roll the joining on the counter to fuse them together to create a “donut”. Place bagels on the parchment-lined baking sheet.
5. Brush the bagels and sprinkle them. You can do this directly on the baking sheet or transfer to a rimmed bowl or plate. Brush with a beaten egg white adn the sprinkle with your favorite seasonings.
6. Bake the bagels. Place the pan in the oven and let the bagels bake until they’re golden brown and fluffy. I like to remove them from the oven and let them cool to room temperature before I store them. The total time on these is around 40 minutes and the reward is half a dozen bagels!

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