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Greek Yogurt Banana Bread

Greek Yogurt Banana Bread -   13 healthy recipes Gluten Free greek yogurt
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Healthier greek yogurt banana bread that uses no sugar, oil or butter. This banana bread uses honey and the sweetness of ripe bananas! This banana bread is great gluten free too! #healthybananabread #bananabreadgreekyogurt Looking to cut carbs without giving up your beloved bagels? These homemade low carb baked bagels will be your new best friend. Homemade bagels, really? That’s possible? Yep. Never in my life would I have thought I’d find myself making my own bagels. I don’t know why the thought really never crossed my mind. Homemade bread? Sure. But bagels? That’s a whole other level I thought was out of my reach. The boiling I think is what scared me. It sounded complicated and I like things that are easy. These bagels are baked, no boiling required. Come to find out you don’t need to boil bagels. You can learn more about why the pros boil bagels, but essentially it creates a thicker more chewy crust. And to be honest, I always toast my bagels anyway to get rid of the chewy crust. So my lazy brain says, why boil them then? You don’t need to. In fact you’ll get a lighter, less dense bagel if you don’t boil them and I actually prefer that as well. Dense bread makes me feel like I’m instantly gaining 5lbs with every bite so the lighter, the better in my opinion. No lye required. The second part about homemade bagel-making that was a little scary was the lye. It’s so dangerous you need gloves and goggles to use it! That sounds kind of fun actually but not really something I want to get into if I’m making bagels on the reg. So I did a little research to find out if you need to use lye when making bagels. Here’s what I found out: Lye is what gives the bagel its brown color and unique flavor. Hmmm… sounds kind of important. But as I read more I discovered you can achieve those qualities in other ways. Baking soda, in fact, is supposed to have a very similar flavor as lye once baked. “Great,” I thought! You’re going to need that to get the bagels to rise anyway. Two birds with one stone. I like it. And for the brown color. If color is really that important to you, then you can get that with an egg wash. The egg wash also serves to help your toppings stick so again, two birds with one stone. See, lazy cooking is all about efficiencies and making legit excuses for leaving out extra steps and ingredients. So, yes, you can make delicious bagels without lye and it’ll be just fine. No yeast required. Finally, I thought there was yeast involved. And some bagel recipes do call for yeast. Me no likey yeast though. The fact that yeast is a living thing and that it may or may not activate is a risk I’m not very willing to take. It doesn’t jive with my lazy ways of finding things in the cabinet about to expire and using them anyway. ???? Guess what though? Things rise without yeast. You just need to employ the magical powers of baking powder yet again. Magical yet humble. It just sits there, patiently, on the top shelf of the cabinet, not taking up much room then comes to rescue when you need flavor and air bubbles. Love it. Easy to make on the first try. So. How did I end up getting into all this bagel-making research? Well, I stumbled upon a recipe posted by Skinny Taste for 5-ingredient bagels. No yeast. No boiling. No lye. I liked the sound of that. I read her tips, (You can read them too here) and was able to make delicious homemade bagels on the first try! So, I’m confident you can too. My ingredients are the same as her recipe but method slightly different (lazier). There’s truly only five ingredients (plus toppings) and you can even reduce the ingredients down to TWO if you use self-rising flour. But that requires you to actually have self-rising flour and I typically only have regular flour. So, five it is. These bagels are gluten free When you use almond flour, these bagels are gluten-free flour! Make it an Everything Bagel! You can find Trader Joe’s Everything but the Bagel topping on Amazon or obviously, at Trader Joe’s if you’re lucky enough to live close to one. Great for anyone looking to cut down on carbs without giving up bagels These bagels are not a super low carb food however, they do have far fewer carbs than a traditional bagel. These bagels have approximate 15 grams of carbs compared to a traditional bagel with about 29 grams of carbs. (without toppings) Can you use regular flour? Yes, you absolutely can however, you will add a significant amount of carbs. Helpful tools for making these bagels You really don’t need anything special to make these other than a little blond confidence and trust. It does help if you have silicon baking sheets or parchment paper though. Other breakfast ideas Are you a breakfast person? Browse all my breakfast recipes   These low carb baked bagels were featured on Make Life Pretty and Wow Me Wednesday!