Crispy Homemade Bagel Chips - Uses Day-Old Bagels!
Crispy, crunchy and salty, these homemade bagel chips are the ultimate snack time winner! Simply slice, bake, and savor every crunchy bite!
Ingredients
- 2 bagels
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt (no need to measure precisely!)
Instructions
- Preheat. Preheat the oven to 350°F with a rack in the center position.
- Prep. Slice the bagels into rounds ⅛" or thinner. Arrange on a large sheet pan in an even layer.
- Season. Use a pastry brush to lightly brush or dab the top of each bagel slice with olive oil. Don't worry about perfect coverage, just a few dabs of oil per slice is fine. Sprinkle the bagel chips with salt and any other seasonings you like.
- Bake. Bake for 15-20 minutes, tossing every 5 minutes until the chips are evenly toasted and crisp. Thinner chips will crisp up faster; remove any chips from the pan early if they are fully browned to avoid burning while the remaining chips bake.
- Cool. Let the chips cool completely at room temperature. Store in an airtight bag or container.
RECIPE NOTES
- Equipment and tools: If you don't have a pastry brush, you can coat the bagel slices with olive oil using a paper towel, droplets from the tines of a fork, a squeeze bottle, or even a light coating of olive oil spray.
- How to store: Homemade bagel chips can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 weeks. As long as the bagel chips were thoroughly dried in the oven and fully cooled before you stored them, they will stay good for a while.
- Food safety: Moisture = mold developing, so make sure the bagel chips are cool and completely dried throughout before putting them in an airtight container. If you see mold, throw them out!
- Using homemade bagels: If you’re using any of my homemade bagel recipes, consider baking them up as bagel sticks instead of round bagels to make them easier to slice for bagel chips!
- Other flavors: You can get creative with your bagel chip flavors. Consider using cinnamon sugar, my DIY chex mix seasoning, this tasty pantry pesto, Italian seasoning, Old Bay, paprika, everything bagel seasoning (pulsed in a spice grinder to turn it into a powder), garlic salt, cayenne, crushed red pepper flakes, etc.