We love a fun food trend (remember eating a whole cucumber and toaster quesadillas?). Former Real Housewife of New York Bethenny Frankel recently shared a few highly entertaining videos about her quest for the perfect cottage cheese bagel recipe.
The latest Frankel TikTok recipe video reveals how passionate she is about testing and working on her recipe and how the results are so far, "the crisp, the cush, I won't sleep tonight. I can't wait for breakfast." In the video, Frankel explains her recipe (for the most part) and her method. We decided to round up her cottage cheese bagel must-haves because while the world eagerly awaits her final recipe, we can all try making these at home.
So far, she has shared that her recipe has just three ingredients: 1 1/4 cups whipped cottage cheese (regular cottage cheese that I believe she whips in a blender or food processor), 1 cup all-purpose flour and 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder. She mixes them into a sticky dough and then separates the dough into four portions, which she shapes into bagels on a parchment-lined baking sheet. In the video, she doesn't say at what temperature (only that she preheats the baking sheet at 375°F) or for how long she bakes them. She encourages her followers to give her more time to perfect the recipe, at which point she'll share it. We can't wait to try it when she does. (In the meantime, here's a similar recipe but with egg that recommends baking at 375°F for 25 to 30 mins).
Ready to shop for all Frankel's bagel-making necessities? These goods will help you achieve a cottage cheese bagel with a crunchy crust and a fluffy interior.
In her post, Frankel uses a bench scraper to make sure she gets every bit of her sticky bagel dough off the board and onto her baking sheet. "This thing is your friend," says Frankel.
This popular version with 26,000 five-star fans on Amazon has sold 6,000 in the past month alone. One excited reviewer reported: "This will change your cooking. Once you use a chopper like this for baking, you can't go back. The measuring marks to 6 inches are also super handy when working with laminate pastry dough. It's dead easy to clean, is dishwasher safe, and overall we find ourselves reaching for it all the time."
These precut parchment paper sheets are a major timesaver both in prep and cleanup. They keep food from sticking to a sheet pan and you don't have to measure out and cut off what you need the way you do with a roll of parchment.
This repeat customer explains it all, "These parchment paper sheets for baking never fail to protect your pans and deliver perfectly baked food items! [...] Always easy cleanup and perfectly baked items from cookies to messy chicken drumsticks."
Anytime you're treating a baked good to an egg wash (a la Frankel's protein bagels) a silicone brush is the best tool. Other ways to use these handy little guys? They're idea for brushing barbecue sauce on meat, basting chicken or even using a spare amount of oil on baking sheets or skillets.
This colorful set comes with four brushes in two sizes — the green brush is 10.3" long and the rest are 8.2" long. They're BPA-free and dishwasher-safe.
These aluminum sheet pans are the MVPs of my kitchen. There are so many uses for these: roasting vegetables, meats, salmon ... and now baking high-protein bagels. Though they come in various sizes, I find that the half-sheet and quarter-sheet versions are the ones I turn to most often. I keep at least three of each size in my cabinets. You can scrub them clean with warm water and a soapy sponge.
An addictive blend of black and white sesame seeds, poppy seeds, garlic, onion and salt flakes, this is much like what you'd find on the crust of an everything bagel. Frankel sprinkles this multitasking seasoning hero on top of scrambled eggs, salads, avocado toast, in egg salad and well, on everything.
I would stare at this stunning Italian designer toaster all morning if it sat on my counter. Luckily you can also use it to toast breads and bagels with one of its six browning levels (including bagel and defrost mode) and clean it easily with a pull-out crumb tray.
One 5-star reviewer sums it up, "What's not to love? If you're looking for a high-functioning toaster that's gorgeous to boot, this one is for you.
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