Cottage Cheese Bagels

5 from 27 votes

Cottage cheese bagels made with 3 simple ingredients and topped with your favorite seasonings.

Prep Time5

Cook Time25

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings:

1 cup flour or self-rising flour (omit baking powder if you use self-rising flour)
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup cottage cheese small curd full-fat recommended
1 egg plus splash of water for egg wash, optional but recommended
Seasoning ideas: everything but the bagel seasoning, dried onion flakes, dried minced garlic, or cinnamon and sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Add cottage cheese and self-rising flour to a medium sized bowl. Mix well with a spoon as much as you can, and then switch to kneading the dough together with floured hands. If it's too sticky, add a pinch of extra flour until it's easy to work with.
Next, split the dough into eight equal parts and form into a bagel shape. You can either roll them into a ball, flatten them and poke a hole in the middle. Or, roll into long log shape and then connect the ends together. Note: Make sure the hole is at least the width of your finger because it will get smaller when it bakes.
To add seasonings, brush bagel tops with egg wash and then sprinkle with seasoning. If you omit the egg wash, press seasonings gently into the bagel tops.
Arrange your cottage cheese bagels on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.
Bake for about 25 minutes. Bagels should be golden brown. Cool for at least 10 minutes before slicing and eating.

Variation ideas:

Everything bagel: Top with egg wash and then generously top with everything bagel seasoning.
Blueberry: Mix 2-3 tbsp of frozen wild blueberries into dough, top with egg wash + coarse sugar.
Cinnamon sugar: Top with egg wash + roll entire bagel in a cinnamon sugar mixture.
Sesame seed: Top with egg wash + white sesame seeds.
Asiago cheese: Mix a couple of tablespoons of shredded asiago cheese into the dough, top with egg wash and more shredded cheese.
Jalapeño cheddar: Mix 1/2-1 very thinly sliced jalapeño and a few tablespoons of cheddar cheese into the dough, then top with egg wash and more cheddar.