Meat Bagels
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Introducing the perfect Paleo bagel: the Meat Bagel! Find out how you can make meat bagels and create your favorite delicious sandwiches without wheat.
If you enjoy breakfast/lunch ideas like Meat Bagels try out these Keto Turkey Roll-Ups, and Chicken BLT Unwich.
I’m crazy. I invented meat bagels! What is a meat bagel? This is my definition of a meat bagel: A meat bagel is meat formed into a bagel shape and consumed like a bagel. It’s the perfect bagel for the keto, Paleo, low carb, Whole30 & maybe the carnivore diet!
I modeled the flavour for meat bagels after cabbage rolls. Cabbage rolls are delicious and contain ground pork mixed with tomato sauce, onions and paprika.
So…how do you like your meat bagel? I like mine for breakfast with lettuce, tomato, avocado and onions.
Tools for this Recipe
Meat Bagels Ingredients
- onions, finely diced
- butter/grass-fed ghee/bacon fat etc.
- ground pork
- eggs
- tomato sauce
- paprika
- sea salt
- ground pepper
How to make Meat Bagels
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking dish (like this one) with parchment paper.
- Sauté the onions over medium heat with some cooking fat, like butter, grass-fed ghee, etc. Sauté until translucent. Allow the onions to cool before adding them to the meat.
- In a bowl, mix all of the ingredients including the cooked onions. Mix well enough to evenly distribute the spices.
- Divide the meat into 6 portions. Using your hands, roll a portion into a ball and then indent the middle, and flatten slightly to form the appearance of a bagel.
- Place the bagel-looking meat in the dish and repeat with each of the portions of meat.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until the meat is fully cooked.
- Allow the meat bagels to cool. Slice the meat bagel just like a regular bagel. Fill the meat bagel with toppings such as tomato slices, lettuce, onions, etc.
Can I use any meat to make this recipe?
Yes!!! Go crazy and use your favorite ground meat! You could use ground chicken, turkey, sausage meat, beef and even mix beef and pork together.
Can I freeze Meat Bagels?
Yes! You can freeze them uncooked or cooked. If you cook them from frozen remember to add extra cooking time. Meat Bagels can be an easy make-ahead meal for you.
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Meat Bagels Recipe
Meat Bagels
The Original Viral Meat Bagel! Find out how you can make meat bagels and create your favorite delicious sandwiches without wheat.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ onions, finely diced
- 1 tbsp butter/grass fed ghee/bacon fat etc.
- 2 pounds ground pork
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cup tomato sauce
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking dish with parchment paper.
- Sauté the onions over medium heat with some cooking fat, like butter, grass fed ghee etc. Sauté until translucent. Allow the onions to cool before adding them to the meat.
- In a bowl, mix all of the ingredients including the cooked onions. Mix well enough to evenly distribute the spices.
- Divide the meat into 6 portions. Using your hands, roll a portion into a ball and then indent the middle, and flatten slightly to form the appearance of a bagel.
- Place the bagel looking meat in the dish and repeat with each of the portions of meat.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until the meat is fully cooked.
- Allow the meat bagels to cool. Slice the meat bagel just like a regular bagel. Fill the meat bagel with topping such as tomato slices, lettuce, onions etc.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
6 ServingsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 534Total Fat: 38gSaturated Fat: 15gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 20gCholesterol: 215mgSodium: 669mgCarbohydrates: 4gFiber: 1gSugar: 2gProtein: 42g
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Carol Lovett is the founder of Ditch the Wheat and a Globe and Mail bestselling author of the cookbook, Ditch the Wheat. She has been eating gluten free since 2010. She loves all things food, natural living, and spiritual. She's also a reiki master and crystal healer.
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From a retired teacher……A+ for CREATIVE!! This is so clever!
That’s an impressive feat. Love it. Does the meat bagel feel oily or moist, or dry as a bagel!?
While I think paleo is a load of crap, this is nevertheless GENIUS.
Can you sub the eggs for flax eggs or something else?
You can try. I don’t have much experience with egg replacers.
Totally genius! I truly LOVE it. Can’t wait to make this for my husband. Talk about thinking outside the box! I haven’t seen anything like this come out of the paleo community and it’s such a winner. Thank you for posting it. You’ve deconstructed-reconstructed the sandwich.
I love this idea and I can’t wait to try it!
Made these last night but with ground turkey instead of pork and used about 1/4 cup of ketchup instead of tomato sauce (I didn’t have any). After they cooked, I scraped off the “juice”, sliced them and froze them. I made them smaller than you recommended and had a total of 9 “bagels”. Topped them with lettuce, tomato, goat chese and avocado. Delish! Next time I make them, I might just add a couple of chopped bacon slices to give them a BLT flavour 🙂
Awesome!
This has to be the most creative recipe, ever! I really can’t wait to try this recipe out. Pinning it now!
This looks scrumptious!! Question: how do you keep the sausage from being too greasy/running down your hands when you eat it? Does it require a napkin to hold it? Does baking it for that long seal in the moisture? Thanks!
I didn’t find it greasy.
this looks SO delish!
Any suggstions for subbing the tomato sauce- we have a nightshade sensitivity! Thanks!
Have you come up with nightshade substitutions for the tomato sauce and paprika? I am ketogenic, casein-free, fruit-free, nightshade-free, sweetener-free (as per my physician)! I’m 4 days in, and I could really use some recipe ideas that fit these criteria. Hope this one can be an option.
I do not focus on AIP recipes. The Paleo Parents have a nightshade-free tomato sauce. You can try that or just omit it and see if you like the taste.
Well, this is completely ridiculous sounding and OMG I can’t wait to make it! What a clever way to enjoy an old favorite a new way.
You’ve got a new reader. 🙂
Is it 1 1/2 cups of onion or 1 1/2 onion as you stated? If so did you use small or medium sized onion? Thanks
Oh my god, looks very tasty. and that’s my dinner for my husban birthday tonight.
Thank you very much Carol
I must tell you, everyone is right! You are a genius! I have done low carb dieting since the mid 1970’s, (actually it isn’t dieting, it has to be away of life to be successful). How none of us ever came up with this blows my mind. And believe me I probably own, or have at sometime owned every low carb cookbook ever published. I even own all generations of the Atkin’s diet books. Oh yeah and his cookbooks. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Something new.
Can this be frozen or refrigerated and microwave heated for quick breakfast?
This sounds amazing, but I think I might try it using a combo of ground beef and ground pork. Anyone else tried that?
This is freaking BRILLIANT! My high school age son takes the train to school every day and I’m struggling to make him portable grab-and-go breakfasts without bread, that he will actually EAT — not an easy task. Until now. This idea has also inspired me to think differently about how to use other ingredients in a way that I had not considered before now. THANKS!
Awesome!
Beautiful recipe! Do you have the nutritional information on this recipe, or any others for that matter?
Hi, just wondering how many calories are in one meat bagel?
Nutrition Information
Looks great! Do you think this would work with beef? If so, what fat ratio would you suggest? Thanks for sharing this wonderful creation 🙂
sure. Lean ground beef.
Great idea! I had a dream about bagels last night, and love that I can now have a reverse bagel – meat on the outside and veggies on the inside. Do you heat up the meat bagels or do they taste ok cold?
I have meatified soooo many things now….
So clever! How long do these last, and you do you store them?
You need to keep them in the fridge or freezer. It would last as long as cooked meat usually lasts.
I loved this recipe! I’m going to try to do this today!! Thanks for sharing!
Question: did you put some curry on the top?
Best regards, Alejandra
There’s no curry in the recipe.
Now that is a cool idea! It looks really good, I bet it’s great.
Can the tomato sauce and paprika be omitted from this recipe? Or are there substitutions?
You need the tomato sauce. It keeps the meat moist and adds flavour.