Easy Homemade Pizza Bagels
This Easy Homemade Pizza Bagels recipe takes the nostalgic childhood staple and graduates it into adult status. A quick lunch, dinner, snack, or appetizer dish that combines your favorite pizza toppings onto fun individual bagel halves.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil extra virgin
- 1 shallot minced
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes add more if you like it spicy
- 4-5 garlic cloves minced
- ¼ cup dry red wine
- 32 oz tomato sauce
- ¼ cup tomato paste
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ tsp fresh ground pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 bag mini bagels approx 10 bagels/20 halves
- 8 oz fresh mozzarella shredded
- 1 pepperoni stick casing removed, cut into rounds, then sliced into small pieces
- 2 tablespoon fresh Parmesan shredded (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Add bagel halves to a baking sheet sprayed with nonstick.
- Toast in oven for 5-8 minutes. Remove and set aside.
- If making homemade marinara: Heat olive oil in a medium sized saucepan over medium heat. (If using store-bought skip to step 11.)
- Add shallot and sauté for a few minutes. Turn heat down to medium low.
- Add garlic and sauté for one more.
- Stir in red pepper flakes and cook one more.
- Pour in red wine and reduce by half.
- Add tomato sauce, paste, and seasoning.
- Stir well, bring to boil, cover and simmer on low for 30 minutes stirring occasionally.
- Add marinara sauce to toasted mini bagels.
- Top with mozzarella.
- Top with pepperoni.
- Bake for about 20 minutes or until cheese is melted and bagels are toasted to desired crispiness.
- Top with Parmesan and red pepper flakes. Serve.
Notes
- Just like with regular pizza the sky is the limit when it comes to what toppings you decide to include or omit on homemade pizza bagels. Leave off the pepperoni to keep this recipe vegetarian. Or make it a meat lovers with sausage, sliced prosciutto, ham, or salami. Toss on banana peppers, roasted red peppers, or pineapple. Fresh basil is a favorite of mine. Or change the sauce altogether and instead of marinara try the spicy vodka sauce from my Gigi Hadid Pasta. I’d just be careful about your topping to bagel ratio. You don’t want the bagel to become soggy due to being too top heavy.
- No bagels on hand but want to make your own individual mini pizzas? Try using English Muffins or my Homemade Pizza Pita recipe.
- If you'd prefer not to use a whole pepperoni stick you can use mini pepperonis or slice regular pepperonis into smaller pieces.
- As with all my recipes, I use fresh mozzarella and fresh Parmesan then shred myself.