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Cottage cheese bagels

Name: Cottage cheese bagels
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 3/4 cup cottage cheese, blended smooth; 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 1 egg egg, beaten, for the wash; 1 1/2 tbsp sesame seeds, or everything seasoning

Two ingredients, no yeast, no proving: cottage cheese and self-rising flour worked into a dough and baked. They come out chewy and about twice as protein-dense as a shop bagel — the rare viral bake that actually delivers what it claims.

Time: 40 min (15 prep + 25 cook)
Servings: 4
Per serving: 260 kcal
Protein: 14 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

3/4 cup cottage cheese, blended smooth200 g
1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour200 g
2 tsp baking powder8 g
1/2 tsp salt3 g
1 egg egg, beaten, for the wash25 g
1 1/2 tbsp sesame seeds, or everything seasoning12 g

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Steps

Heat the oven to 190°C (375°F). Blend the cottage cheese until completely smooth — the curds have to go, or the dough tears.
Stir the flour, baking powder and salt together, add the blended cottage cheese, and bring it together into a soft dough. Knead on a floured surface for a minute; it should be tacky, not sticky.
Divide into four, roll each into a rope and pinch into a ring. Set them on a lined tray, brush with the beaten egg and scatter over the sesame seeds.
Bake 22–25 minutes until deep golden. They are best the day they are made; after that, split and toast them.

Self-rising flour?

That's the original two-ingredient version. Plain flour plus the baking powder and salt here is the same thing, and it's what most kitchens actually have.

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

21% of kcal

36% water

7 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 1039 kcal goes into the pot, 448 g of ingredients comes out as ~380 g of food → 273 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 273
Protein: (21%); 14 g
Fat: (18%); 6 g
Carbohydrates: (61%); 42 g
of which sugar: <1 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 669 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.