These low carb bagels made with almond flour and mozzarella cheese are the perfect solution to me wanting a bagel! Seriously, if you are wanting a bagel, these keto bagels will make you smile!
Keto Bagel Recipe
I have been wanting a bagel egg and cheese sandwich like crazy. Thankfully with this easy Keto Bagel recipe I can and stay on track like I want to! This Keto Bagel Recipe is simple to make using almond flour, mozzarella cheese and a few other ingredients. Don’t worry, you can’t even tell that you are using mozzarella cheese in them when they are all finished.
These low carb bagels make a great keto friendly breakfast. You can enjoy them toasted with cream cheese, or my favorite way… topped with a fried egg and cheese!
I will give you the heads up though, they are not going to be the New York style bagel, the texture is different, not bad but different. I am not phased by the difference at all, but as someone who knows what a good NYC or New Jersey fresh baked bagel tastes like I felt the need to let you know in advanced they are different.
How Long does it take to Make Keto Bagels?
This Keto Bagel recipe will take you about 25 minutes from start to finish to make. I have recently been making an extra batch because the kids seem to enjoy them more then the bagels I buy them from the store and have been eating mine. I may just stop buying bagels all together at this point.
How to Store Keto Bagels
Store these bagels in an air tight container in the fridge. They will keep for about a week.
Best Low Carb Bagel toppings
When picking toppings for our low carb and keto friendly bagels, I kinda just wing it every time. It depends on what I am in the mood for. Sometimes we end up with salted, sometimes garlic, sometimes poppyseed. Sometimes we end up with a total mix of whatever on the top of them.
How to Shape Bagels
I will admit that I am totally lazy when it comes to shaping mine. I am totally ok with uneven, not perfectly circle bagels. You can mess with the dough when forming these low carb bagels to be perfect circles but I don’t mind mine being misshapen so I don’t worry about it.
Best way to cut a bagel
Need the best way to cut any bagel? This bagel cutter I can NOT live with out! It was one of the first things I bought when Tom and I got married and I refuse to use anything else to cut my bagels in half!
Tips for Making Low Carb Bagels
Use room temperature cream cheese. I find it works best to make th bagl dough when the ream cheese is soft.
Don’t stress the shape. Shaping the dough can be a bit tricky, I don’t stress it so mine are not always pretty but they still taste amazing no matter how they look.
Shred the cheese yourself. Packaged shredded cheese has a coating on it so it doesn’t stick and while it makes things quicker it is best to shred your own cheese.
Keto Bagel Ingredients
- shredded mozzarella cheese
- almond flour
- cream cheese
- egg
- baking powder
How to Make Keto Bagels
The net carbs for these bagels are 13g net carbs per bagel, you can make them smaller which will make the carb count lower for these low carb bagels.
Preheat oven to 400.
Place the mozzarella cheese and cream cheese in a microwave safe bowl.
Microwave for 1 minute, stir to check how blended it is. Then microwave for 25 seconds to 1 minute more. Mix well again when removing from the microwave.
Add the egg into the mixture and mix well until the egg is totally mixed into the cheese mixture.
Add cheese and egg mixture to your food processor and add in the dry ingredients and process until a dough forms.
Scrape the dough back into the bowl you melted the cheese in and let sit for 2-3 minutes. Just so the dough cools a little bit.
Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray – I prefer to use olive oil spray.
Once the dough is a little bit cool, split into 5 even balls of dough.
Using your hands roll each piece into a snake shape, then fold to form the “bagel shape”. Pinch the dough together at the ends so they stay together.
For the toppings of your choice you can either sprinkle them on top or pour them on to a small plate and dip the one side of your bagel into them. If you do not want to have toppings you can skip that as well.
Once bagels are formed and have your desired toppings, place on your baking sheet(topping side up).
Bake for 12 minutes or until the outside has browned.
Let cool for about 5 minutes, as they will be soft when you take them out of the oven.
Easy Low Carb Breakfast Recipes
- Low Carb Avocado Toast
- Ham and cheese rolled omelette
- Tomato Basil omelette
- cauliflower hash browns
- Low carb pancakes
Keto Bagels
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 1/2 cup almond flour
- 2 ounces cream cheese
- 1 large egg
- 1 tbsp baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Place the mozzarella cheese and cream cheese in a microwave safe bowl.
- Microwave for 1 minute, stir to check how blended it is. Then microwave for 25 seconds to 1 minute more. Mix well again when removing from the microwave.
- Add the egg into the mixture and mix well until the egg is totally mixed into the cheese mixture.
- Add cheese and egg mixture to your food processor and add in the dry ingredients and process until a dough forms.
- Scrape the dough back into the bowl you melted the cheese in and let sit for 2-3 minutes. Just so the dough cools a little bit.
- Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray – I prefer to use olive oil spray.
- Once the dough is a little bit cool, split into 5 even balls of dough.
- Using your hands roll each piece into a snake shape, then fold to form the “bagel shape”. Pinch the dough together at the ends so they stay together.
- For the toppings of your choice you can either sprinkle them on top or pour them on to a small plate and dip the one side of your bagel into them. If you do not want to have toppings you can skip that as well.
- Once bagels are formed and have your desired toppings, place on your baking sheet(topping side up).
- Bake for 12 minutes or until the outside has browned.
- Let cool for about 5 minutes, as they will be soft when you take them out of the oven.
- Enjoy right away or store in an air tight container in the fridge for about a week.
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Comments & Reviews
Robin says
Ummm, don’t want to be annoying…..but I think you posted the nutrition info for the whole recipe, not per serving! You’d need to divide each number by five to get the true serving info. There’s NO WAY each bagel is 11 net carbs! It should be about 2 grams of net carbs per serving, I believe.
Leanne Long says
I have made these before and I absolutely love the bagel seasoning! I always loved the “Chonga” bagel from Starbucks and thought: Hmmm! in addition to the topping, add some cheese (cheddar) and some finely diced/sauted onion and garlic to the dough! AND use the topping!