Carla Hale - The Freezer Meals Cookbook: 30 Make-Ahead Dishes to Save You Time

Yep, these are delicious bagels that absolutely EXPLODE with yummy stuff. There are few combinations are more authentic than breakfasts very own ham, egg and cheese. I know its not just me who knows for a fact that melted cheese is the most superior state of cheese! Of course, these bagels can be made ahead, you can double, triple, quadruple the batch the sky is the limit(!) and frozen for a quick bagel hit whenever the need arises!

Makes: 8-12

Preparation time: 80 minutes + at least an hour rising time

Ingredients:

For the bombs:

• 8 oz. shredded cheese
• 5 eggs
• 5 oz. ham
• 1 tablespoon honey
• Sesame seeds to top
• Poppy seeds to top
• Dried onion to top
• Dried garlic to top
• Pinch of salt
• Pinch of pepper

For the bagel dough:

• 4 teaspoons yeast
• 3 cups bread flour
• 1 oz. sugar
• Pinch of salt

Serving suggestion:

Well, what is fun way to get out of that breakfast, rut, right? And so, any good breakfast is deserving of a fresh cup of coffee to accompany it!

1) To make the bagel dough, first mix the yeast and sugar into 1 cups of warm water. Set it aside for 3 minutes. Mix 2 cups of the flour with a good pinch of salt, and then stir the yeast mixture in. Then, mix in the remaining flour.

2) Flour a surface and knead the dough for 5 minutes, until firm. Place the ball of dough in a greased bowl and then cover with cling wrap. Leave the bowl so that the dough can rise for an hour or more, until the dough has doubled in size. Then, punch the dough down and divide it into 8-12 balls.

3) Scramble the eggs by whisking them up, and seasoning well with salt and pepper, before adding into a pan. Use a spatula to keep moving the eggs around, so that as soon as they stick, they are moved, to create the scrambling'.

4) Preheat the oven to 425F and line a baking tray with parchment paper.

5) Flatten each ball of dough into a disk using your hand. Divide the scrambled egg between each piece, and then sprinkle ham and cheese onto each one too.

6) Pull the sides of the dough up and over the filling, sealing the edges with a little water, if necessary, to keep it closed tightly.

7) Add 12 cups of water into a pan and stir in the honey when it has come to the boil. Place the bagels in, for just a minute each, turning them halfway through to ensure even boiling.

8) Place the boiled bagels onto the baking tray, with the sealed side down. Sprinkle on the toppings you have chosen, and then bake for 25-30 minutes.

9) Enjoy some warm, and then wrap the remaining bagel bombs in cling wrap and freeze for future use.

10) To cook from frozen: Unwrap the bagel and then wrap it in a paper towel. Microwave for just over a minute on high so that the bagel warms through and the inside gets all gooey and delicious again!

Tips: If you want to cut out a lot of the time needed to make this, then try using pre-made pizza dough. Do everything exactly the same, and by the end result, youll not even notice the difference!

Put whatever you like in the filling, of course! For those of us with a sweet tooth, here is a FANTASTIC idea! Make cinnamon and raisin bagels, by adding cinnamon and raisins into the dough when mixing. Fill with spiced honey apple filling, or, for the big kid inside of us, banana and Nutella!