Gourmet Keto Low-Carb Bagels

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Enjoy low-carb bagels without guilt, made without gluten or sugar added; you’ll be thrilled that only six ingredients exist.

These gourmet keto-friendly bagels take little to make, and you can create a variety of flavour combinations.

Make Any Variety Of Keto Bagels With One Simple Recipe

You won’t believe that there are ONLY 6 ingredients in these low-carb bagels, which are also gluten-free and keto-friendly, with 1.5 net carbs each.

Soften the butter, cue the cream cheese, prepare the sugar-free jam, and let the drooling begin. (that’s how Mrs. CBB explained it to me)

Keto Bagel Essentials

Every low-carb kitchen with a keto-stocked pantry will already have these few ingredients, making this recipe even easier.

If not, stock up because you’ll need all the beautiful products that combine keto recipes and plenty of protein and vegetables.

If you’ve wanted to satisfy that bread craving without all the carbs, you won’t miss this gourmet keto low-carb bagel recipe.

We had lots of fun making these and consider this one of the best low-carb bagel recipes thus far.

Why are these called Gourmet Keto/ Low Carb Bagels?

Why not? I can promise you that you won’t turn back once you make this recipe for low-carb bagels.

These low-carb bagels are hand-made in your kitchen; anything from a home chef is gourmet in my books.

We’ve been searching for the best keto dough using almond flour that we could use for not just one recipe but many.

Generally speaking, most dough recipes in the keto world are made with almond flour, coconut flour, or a mixture of both.

Fathead Dough Origin

Some home chefs may add other ingredients such as cauliflower, flax seed, psyllium husk powder, and protein powder to increase the fiber.

What is Fathead dough?

Mrs. CBB and I have tried them all but recently came across this fantastic dough we found at cookyscreations.blogspot.com, which many keto foodies know as ‘Fat Head dough’ or ‘Fathead dough.’

You can find a similar version based on Casey’s creations on the Fat Head movie blog, Faux Carb Pizza.

Any time we tested or created our keto-friendly, low-carb dough for bagels, pretzels, or pizza, we were always met with the same results.

Each recipe was delicious, crispy from the oven, and dense when cold.

If you want the best experience eating fat head dough of any description, you must eat it hot from the oven.

The next best option is to toast the keto bagels. We like to double toast them with butter, cream cheese, and homemade sugar-free strawberry chia seed jam.

Although traditional head-carb pizza dough was announced as the “Holy Grail” for the keto lifestyle, we tweaked the recipe three times to find the fathead dough that would make the best low-carb bagels.

Alternative Uses For Fat Head Dough

This simple fathead low-carb, keto-friendly dough can also be used to make:

• Low Carb/ Keto Pretzels
• Low Carb/ Keto Pizza Crust
• Low Carb/Keto  Pizza Sticks
• Low Carb/Keto Pizza Buns
• Soft Carb/Keto Cinnamon rolls or buns
• Anything that requires a low-carb/Keto dough
  

We’ve created recipes for all the above using our version of fathead dough, many of which are already posted on the blog.

Our low-carb and Keto recipes are on the blog’s Free Recipe Depot Index.

Popular Low-Carb Bagels (Keto Bagels)

Once you have the base low-carb dough for your keto bagels, you can create any flavor bagel you like in keeping with a sugar-free keto diet.

Even if the keto lifestyle is not on your radar like me (food tester), anything low carb is worth trying.

I adore these low-carb bagels and don’t get that heavy feeling in my stomach like traditional bagels.

This is why I aim to cut back on the gluten and work to create keto-friendly, sugar-free recipes for our family.

How To Make Everything Bagel Spice Mix

Making Everything But The Bagel seasoning is dead easy to do at a fraction of the price.

A small bottle of this at Marshall’s or Winners in Canada will cost you over $6.

A trip to one of the cheapest grocery stores in Canada, and you can make a few bottles for a few more dollars. 

How to Make Everything But The Bagel Seasoning

Mix the following ingredients in a bowl and store them in an air-tight jar.

• 3 Tablespoons White Sesame Seeds
• 3 Tablespoons Black Poppyseeds
• 2 Tablespoons of Minced, Flaked or Powdered Onion
• 2 Tablespoons of Minced, Dried, or Powdered Garlic
• 1-2 teaspoons Pink Himalayan salt (your taste)

Flavor Variations Of Keto Bagels

Various Flavour profiles of low-carb bagels (Keto Bagels)

• Cinnamon low-carb bagels (Keto) are delicious when you want a sweeter bagel.
• Plain low-carb bagels are best as you can add sweet or savory to them, which gives you options for making a bagel sandwich.
• We’ve even made grilled cheese with a plain bagel! Oh Yes, We Did.
• Everything low-carb bagels using a mix of seasonings- garlic powder, onion powder, sesame seeds, poppy seeds
• Poppy Seed low-carb bagels are sprinkled liberally with poppy seeds before baking.
• Sesame low-carb bagels –  We bought Trader Joe’s Everything but the Bagel Sesame Seasoning Blend (Pack of 2) from Amazon Canada, which you’ll only hear good things about as it’s delicious.
• We added 1 cup chopped fresh dill and 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese for Dill Parmesan Keto Bagels.
• Chocolate Chip Keto Bagels: add 1 cup of Krisda or Lily’s sugar-free chocolate chips to the fathead bagel dough.
• Sundried Tomato Keto Bagels: add 1/2 cup of the finely chopped sundried tomato to the fathead dough and mix.
• Alternatively, if you don’t want to purchase the seasoning, sprinkle sesame seeds on top of the bagels once baked.

Making CBB Keto Dough

Our master low-carb dough recipe offers less almond flour, more mozzarella cheese, Bob’s Red Mill Xanthan Gum, and several technique changes.

Traditional bagels are boiled, seasoned, and baked in the oven until golden brown.

I’ve got it in my head to try this concept next with our keto dough to see if it holds up in the water before baking.

For now, this low-carb dough recipe satisfies that bread craving.

One of the changes we made to the original recipe was to lower the amount of almond flour in the recipe because we found some dough recipes we tested too dry.

By eliminating some of the almond flour, you also cut back on the number of carbs.

We also allowed the bagels to rest for 5 minutes before putting an egg white wash over before sprinkling our seasoning.

You can find almond flour at Costco Canada for $17.99 for 1.36kg, or another great brand is Yupik Almond Powder (Blanched), 1 kg.

You can also find gluten-free Bob’s Red Mill Baking Powder, 453 gm, reasonably priced online or in the shops.

The best way to bake the bagels is on a pizza stone or a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.

We also experimented with making low-carb bagels in a donut pan, which turned out lovely and uniform.

Gourmet Keto Low Carb Bagels (Gluten-Free)

• Recipe Type: Low-Carb Bagels
• Cuisine: Low-Carb, Gluten-Free – Keto
• Author: Mr.CBB
• Prep time: 15 mins
• Cook time: 6 mins
• Total time: 21 mins
• Serves: 6

You no longer have to go without bread for the rest of your life.

We’ve tweaked the original fathead pizza dough to create many varieties of bagels, pizza crust, cinnamon rolls, and pretzels.

Ingredients

• Optional: Cinnamon Bagels: add one tablespoon of cinnamon to the dry ingredients bowl
• 2 1/2 cups of shredded pizza mozzarella
• 3 large eggs (separate the whites and yolk of one egg and add the extra yolk to the bowl with the 2 large eggs). The whites are for coating the top of the bagel before adding seasoning.
• 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
• 1 tablespoon double-action gluten-free baking powder
• 1/2 brick cream cheese softened 4 oz
• 2 cups of Almond Flour (not Almond meal)
• Optional toppings: sesame seeds, poppy seeds, cheese, etc.

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees
2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or prep your pizza stone for the oven.
3. In a large bowl, add your dry ingredients, then mix.
4. In a medium bowl, crack your eggs and beat them.
5. Add the shredded mozzarella cheese and softened cream cheese cubes in a microwave-safe, medium-sized bowl.
6. Microwave the cheese mixture on high until entirely melted for about 2 minutes.
7. Move fast
8. Mix the cheese while it’s hot and pour it into the dry mixture bowl.
9. Slowly add the eggs and mix quickly until you form a dough ball.
10. You must mix this dough thoroughly so you don’t see any cream cheese blotches throughout.
11. Let rest in the bowl for 5 minutes, covered with a tea towel, and sit on your stovetop or countertop where it’s warm.
12. Cut the dough into 6 triangles while inside the bowl.
13. Take one dough ball at a time, roll on your cutting board into a ball, then stick your finger into the middle to make a hole. If you have a fancy tool to cut out the centre, such as a cannoli tube or donut hole cutter, that will work too. You can also roll the dough out and connect both ends into a circle with a hole.
14. Brush each bagel one at a time with egg whites and dip or sprinkle your topping on top before baking.
15. Set each bagel on your baking sheet or stone and bake for 6 mins at 400 degrees.
16. Remove from oven and enjoy them hot or cold.

How To Store Keto Low-CarbBagels

If you don’t plan to eat your low-carb bagels right away, remember that you will have to toast them the next day if you want that crunchy exterior again.

We toast them whole, or you can cut them in half before toasting.

They aren’t as thick as a traditional bagel once they’ve had time to cool thoroughly, but they are big enough to fit in a toaster.

Either way, these low-carb bagels make a great snack and an even better sandwich loaded with your favourite toppings!

Enjoy, and tell me what you think of our recipe!

Mr.CBB

Keto Bagel Nutritional Info:

One bagel = 1.5 net carbs each. I used Atkins Carb Counter, but remember I’m just a blogger and not a nutritionist, so always do your macro counts.

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