With this recipe you can avoid food waste by using up day-old bagels while using your delicious homemade garden pizza sauce.

A part of cooking from scratch is knowing how to use leftovers well, and any home baker knows homemade bagels have a short shelf life.

If you need a quick and easy recipe to use up leftover bagels, Here I go into ingredients and instructions on how to use up day old bagels into pizza bagels, while even using up some of your homemade pizza sauce from summer.

Let’s Dive In…

Sourdough Pizza Bagel Recipe

Homemade Garden Pizza Sauce & Homemade Bagels

There is nothing like tasting your garden tomatoes in the dead of winter.

You can bring the flavors of your garden in, even on a simple recipe such as these pizza bagels.

I recently wrote how to freeze garden styled pizza sauce, that does not require straining and allows you to sneak in veggies like zucchini or eggplant.

It’s a recipe you can also make fresh, on the spot for your meal, if you are in the throes of gardening season.

You can read more on how I turn my garden tomatoes into useful pizza sauce here: Freezer Friendly, Roasted Tomatoes & Pepper Pizza Sauce

Homemade bagels will forever be better than storebought ones.

I explained how I make sourdough bagels here: Basic Sourdough Bagel Recipe

Ingredients:

Day Old Sourdough Bagels, cut in half
Extra Virgin Olive oil
Pizza sauce, homemade preferred, thawed
Mozzarella Cheese, or any cheese of your choice
Toppings of choice

Instructions:

On a cookie sheet, lay out your bagels cut side up.
Coat the entire cut side up with a generous portion of olive oil.
Let the bagels soak in olive oil a few minutes and preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
From there spoon out pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese to cover the bagel.
If you are desiring toppings, I suggest precooking them in a pan. For example, to sauté peppers, onions until soft, or giving pepperoni a quick heat up in a pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F for about 10-15 minutes.
Cheese should be melted and golden brown.
Enjoy!