41 bagel recipes

Whole wheat bagels using a bread machine for the dough, then shaped by hand, boiled, and baked. Includes tips for bagel sticks and homemade bagel chips.

Toasted bagels topped with sweet roasted red bell peppers, caramelized red onions, and a smear of cream cheese. A quick open-faced breakfast or lunch ready in 40 minutes.

If you don't like making bagels but want the texture of bagels with the low-fat nutritional benefits; try this bread. It tastes like a bagel and is especially good sliced and toasted.

Traditional Swiss Basel Leckerli: honey-spice cookie bars with cinnamon, cloves, candied peels, kirsch, and almonds under a crackly sugar glaze. Makes 50 to 60 bars that keep for weeks.

New York bialys are the lesser-known cousin of the bagel: chewy yeast rolls with a poppy-seed and onion crater pressed into the center. No boiling, just bake until burnished. A Lower East Side breakfast tradition done right at home.

Orange yogurt cheese spread made with nonfat yogurt cheese, fresh orange juice, and orange zest. A light, citrusy spread for bagels, toast, or pancakes that doubles as a fruit dip.

Beau's notes: * There are no "jalapeno beans;" there are jalapeno peppers and pinto beans. I have two recipes, both of which are quite tref, but a Catholic should worry? But if you are hosting a Jewish person, smoked turkey will substitute most agreeably for the chazer called for in either recipe.]

Chicken finger packets wrap soy-Dijon broiled chicken, tzatziki, lettuce, and sweet peppers in flour tortillas. Portable lunch-box rolls that hold up in a bag all morning.

Keep these in the freezer and enjoy anytime you feel like having something sweet. Perfect with an afternoon cup of tea or coffee.