Easy Bagel Recipe

This easy homemade bagel recipe is made from scratch with just four (5) ingredients – flour, Greek yogurt, egg white, baking powder and salt!

Prep time: PT5M

Cook time: PT25M

Total time: PT30M

Rating

4.75 stars (1482 reviews)

Keywords

Easy Bagel Recipe, Easy Greek Yogurt Bagel Recipe, Everything Bagel Recipe, Gluten Free Bagel Recipe, Homemade Bagel Recipe, two ingredient bagel recipe, Weight Watchers Greek Yogurt Bagel Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup unbleached all purpose flour, whole wheat or gluten-free mix* ((5 oz in weight))
2 teaspoons baking powder (make sure it's not expired or it won't rise)
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt (use less if using table salt)
1 cup non-fat Greek yogurt (not regular yogurt, it will be too sticky (Stonyfield))
1 egg white or whole egg (beaten)
optional toppings:

Cuisine

American

Steps

Oven Method:
- Preheat oven to 375F. Place parchment paper or a silpat on a baking sheet. If using parchment paper, spray with oil to avoid sticking.
- In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt and whisk well. Add the yogurt and mix with a fork or spatula until well combined, it will look like small crumbles.
- Lightly dust flour on a work surface and remove dough from the bowl, knead the dough a few times until dough is tacky, but not sticky, about 15 turns (it should not leave dough on your hand when you pull away).
- Divide into 4 equal balls. Roll each ball into 3/4-inch thick ropes and join the ends to form bagels. (or you can make a ball and poke a hole in the center then stretch it slightly)
- Top with egg wash and sprinkle both sides with seasoning of your choice. Bake on the top rack of the oven for 25 minutes. Let cool at least 15 minutes before cutting.
Air Fryer Method:
- In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt and whisk well. Add the yogurt and mix with a fork or spatula until well combined, it will look like small crumbles.
- Lightly dust flour on a work surface and remove dough from the bowl, knead the dough a few times until dough is tacky, but not sticky, about 20 turns (it should not leave dough on your hand when you pull away).
- Divide into 4 equal balls. Roll each ball into 3/4-inch thick ropes and join the ends to form bagels.
- Top with egg wash and sprinkle both sides with seasoning of your choice.
- Preheat the air fryer 280F degrees. Transfer in batches without overcrowding and bake 15 to 16 minutes, or until golden. No need to turn. Let cool at least 15 minutes before cutting.

Nutitrion

Serving Size: 1 bagel
Calories: 152 kcal
Carbohydrates: 26.5 g
Protein: 10 g
Fat: 0.3 g
Sodium: 434 mg
Sugar: 2.5 g

Reviews

Sue on 2025-08-18 (5 stars):
Excellent and easy—will make again
Taylor on 2025-08-17 (5 stars):
These turned out really great. My teenager loves them and he’s a tough critic!
Carol on 2025-08-13 (5 stars):
Love this recipe. Make these every weekend!! So easy and tastes delicious. I do half whole wheat and all purpose flour. Thanks so much for such a great recipe.
Emily on 2025-08-10 (5 stars):
This has been my go to recipe for so many months now. I like to double the recipe. I also have these with high protein egg bites I prep so I make little bagel sandhwiches for breakfast
Angela on 2025-08-10 (5 stars):
Yummy, soft and easy
Karl on 2025-08-06 (5 stars):
This is my second time making the recipe, the flour did not help with the sticknesss but that’s because of the yogurt i had. They taste wonderful despite the dough process! I recommend using the yogurts mentioned to avoid any mistakes
Emily on 2025-08-03 (5 stars):
I used everything bagel seasoning and a little extra salt and they were amazing!
Danika B on 2025-07-28 (5 stars):
I really liked these and will be remaking them. I made these using regular AP flour, Kirkland 0% greek yogurt, egg whites, and baking powder per the recipe. I scaled up the recipe (×2.79 roughly) to use one whole container of yogurt (which Costco Canada sells as a 650g) as well as converted the flour to metric to match. This was: 650g fat free yogurt 400g flour (plus extra for flouring your workspace while rolling) 5½ tsp baking powder 2 tsp kosher salt Egg white for egg wash Divided into 12 bagels I made these plain without toppings but did use an egg wash. I found that rolling a piece of dough and connecting it made nicer bagels than poking a hole, to my surprise. I used the oven baking method (6 bagels per sheet pan on a silicone baking liner, 375°F). I rotated the sheets between oven racks around 20 minutes of baking. I did accidentally leave them in the oven for at least a couple minutes after dismissing the 25 minute timer, so I can't speak to how dry or moist these are after baking (though mine weren't bad by any means). I like the flavour of these - it's like a salted, denser homemade bread with a chewy crust. I plan to make them again (which is good, as the yogurt from Costco comes in a three-pack), hopefully next time with sesame seeds (we're out currently) or cheese. (I think you could reduce the salt slightly if you want to make a sweet bagel, but for savory, I like it as-is.) For how I scaled and portioned this recipe, each bagel is around 170 calories (31.1g carbs, 0.4g fat, 9.4g protein, 1g fibre).
BlondieIsMe on 2025-07-08 (1 stars):
Do not make this, I followed the air fryer instructions and all it made was huge mess and waste of ingredients that I could of used to make something else.
Milly on 2025-07-06 (1 stars):
Unfortunately this was not enough flour, I needed to add much more, couldn't form a firm dough, in my country we don't have brands of mention greek yogurt, so if you cannot find those then I do not recommend :(
Tina on 2025-06-25 (4 stars):
Dough was so so sticky for me like it kept getting all over my hands and by the end of it I feel like I lost half of the dough 😭 I don't know what went wrong but I'm sure it has something to do with me considering all these good reviews
Annalisa Purcell on 2025-06-24 (5 stars):
Just delicious and easy to make …keeps you full. Love this recipe !
Kerri on 2025-06-23 (5 stars):
Love this recipe! So easy to make gluten free and tasty. How long do the bagels keep in the freezer for?
Debbie on 2025-06-17 (5 stars):
Hi, help me with the math here …if you’re only using one cup of yogurt to make 4 bagels, then your one cup of yogurt must have 40g of protein if each bagel has 10g each. Is that right?