This Gluten-Free Cheese and Jalapeño Bagel recipe is fun to make and the bagel is particularly good when toasted for breakfast with eggs or for making bagel sandwiches with avocado egg salad or salmon spread.

♥ How to make cheese and jalapeño bagels without donut pans?

The bagel dough takes only minutes to prepare. Simply mix dry ingredients with yogurt and sour cream and form small balls. Now comes the fun part. Place the dough balls on a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Using your finger poke a hole in the middle of each ball, then spread out the hole to about 1-inch in diameter. Smooth the tops with wet hands, that’s it. Super simple, no need for donut pans. But if you do have one use it, it will save you time and you will have a perfectly shaped gluten-free cheese and Jalapeño bagel.

To make the bagels extra special I added sesame seeds not only for the texture and flavour but for their many health benefits. Sesame seeds are an excellent source of copper and manganese, but they are also a good source of calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B1, zinc, molybdenum, selenium, and dietary fiber. Jalapeño is another mildly spicy green pepper not to be shy from. Some studies suggest that jalapeño peppers have been known to aid in weight loss and fight cancer cells and tumors as per Dr. Axe

I hope you enjoy these gluten-free cheese and jalapeño bagels, but be warned; they’ll disappear before you know it. I always double the recipe because they freeze well!