The Best Breakfast Bagel Bombs – Bacon, Egg & Cheese

I’m from NY. Bagels are an essential part of life, plain bagels, poppy seeds bagels, bagels with cream cheese, bagel hole, any type of bagel especially the bagel breakfast sandwich.

There’s a few problems with this. I moved out of New York so now I’m stuck making my own bagel recipes, I haven’t found a deli that does bagels the right way and a bacon egg and cheese on a bagel from a deli is over 600 calories. Ridiculous right? I had to figure out how to make homemade bagels that had a great bagel dough, for a portion of the calories. Funny enough it was the tried and true two ingredient dough recipe. Well strap in, this original recipe covers all the bases. The first time I made these I fell in love – the cheesy middle of the bagel is so good!

This recipe is a fun twist on a New York style bagel. We combine eggs, bacon and cheese in a small ball for a delicious bite sized breakfast. This great recipe is so easy to make it’ll become a staple in your morning routine.

No one has the energy to wait around for a yeast mixture to rise or deal with the boiling process of making bagels the traditional way. We’re going to use the two ingredient pizza dough recipe for the dough. It combines self rising flour and greek yogurt. If you don’t know what I’m talking about here is a link to the recipe card. I’m going to be using this dough ball to make my egg bagel recipe.

Simple Ingredients:

• 0% fat greek yogurt
• all purpose flour (self rising flour / bread flour works too!)
• large whole eggs
• bacon crumbles
• shredded cheese
• light margarine
• black pepper
• sea salt (or table salt)

Optional: egg whites for an egg wash, everything but the bagel seasoning

Instructions:

1) Mix together your cup of flour and greek yogurt. I skewed this recipe with a little extra all purpose flour. You’ll likely have a little left over in the bottom of the mixer bowl but you’ll be able to handle your dough with ease. You can mix this by hand or if you have a stand mixer use a dough hook attachment to combine on a low speed. Once combined, set aside.

2) In a skillet on medium high heat combine bacon ( or turkey bacon! Canadian bacon! breakfast sausage!), light margarine, eggs, salt and black pepper. Mix together until eggs are cooked and scrambled. Make sure not to overcook your eggs.

3) Remove from heat and immediately add in your shredded cheese, fold until gooey then move into a small bowl. I use a reduced fat mexican blend in this recipe. You can use full fat or no fat if you want.

4) Preheat your air fryer to 350 degrees and lightly spray with cooking oil.

5) Lightly flour your work area and split the dough into 10 equal small balls, using your hand kneed the dough into a semi-flat circle. make sure not stretch it too thin otherwise it will rip.

6) Add in 1-2 tbsp of your egg filling to the center of the bagels dough. Fold all sides inward on top of your filling, make sure the filling is completely covered and the top is sealed off.

7) Lightly spray bombs with olive oil or lightly coat with an egg white wash and top with everything but the bagel seasoning. If you don’t have that on hand you can use sesame seeds, fresh herbs or leave them without a topping.

8) Place bagel bombs into your air fryer for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.

Alternatively you can bake these in the oven. Line a baking pan with parchment paper, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake for 20-25 minutes. Keep an eye on these. The general rule of thumb is to cook them until the dough has a slight golden hue.

What are the calories & macros?

This recipe makes 10 B.E.C bagel bombs.

Total per B.E.C Bomb:

127 calories, 15.3g carbs, 3.9g fat, 7.1g protein

The calories from just the dough to make the bagel bombs are:

73 calories, 14g carbs, a fraction of a gram of fat and 3.3g protein

On their own this makes pretty good bagels. I would make sure to top it with a seasoning.

The calories for the bacon egg and cheese fillings are:

50 calories, 1.3g carbs, 3.8g fat, 3.8g protein

I like to have three of these for a super filling breakfast:

Three B.E.C Bombs:

381 calories, 45.9g carbs, 11.7g fat, 21.3g protein