Viral 4-Ingredient Cottage Cheese Bagels 🥯

The viral 4-Ingredient Cottage Cheese Bagels may sound too good to be true… but what did Executive Chef Ginevra Iverson think when she put this protein-packed recipe to the test? 🥯👀

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4-Ingredient Cottage Cheese Bagels
Recipe courtesy of Ginevra Iverson for Food Network Kitchen
Level: Easy
Total: 40 min
Active: 10 min
Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients

One 16-ounce container whole-milk cottage cheese
2 cups all-purpose flour (see Cook’s Note)
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 large egg, lightly beaten
For topping: everything bagel seasoning, sesame seeds, poppy seeds and/or coarse sea salt, optional

Directions

Special equipment: a blender or food processor

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

Process the cottage cheese in a blender or food processor until smooth. Add the flour and baking powder to a large bowl and whisk to combine. Add the cottage cheese and stir with a wooden spoon until a shaggy dough forms.

Divide into 8 even balls and transfer to the prepared baking sheets. Pat each ball into a 3-inch disc. Dip a finger in water and create about a 1-inch-diameter hole in the middle of each. With a pastry brush, brush the bagels all over with the egg and sprinkle generously with your choice of toppings, if using.

Bake, rotating about halfway through, until dark golden brown, about 30 minutes.

Cook’s Note
When measuring flour, we spoon it into a dry measuring cup and level off excess. (Scooping directly from the bag compacts the flour, resulting in dry baked goods.)

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