What can I make with everything bagel seasoning?
Everything Bagel Seasoning is the most-wasted item in most kitchens and one of the most useful. Recipes using everything bagel seasoning are below, organised from fresh to properly stale.
Recipes with everything bagel seasoning
Best uses for everything bagel seasoning, fresh or stale
- 1Fresh: toast hard, rub with a raw garlic clove, and finish with good oil and salt.
- 2A day old: cube, toss with oil and season, and bake at 400F for croutons or a panzanella base.
- 3Properly stale: blitz into breadcrumbs and freeze them - they last months and rescue any weeknight dinner.
- 4Soaked in an egg-and-milk custard it becomes French toast or a savoury bake with almost nothing else.
What goes well with everything bagel seasoning
Everything Bagel Seasoning is at its best with butter, garlic, olive oil, cheese, eggs and herbs. Any two or three of those, plus everything bagel seasoning, is already a dinner rather than an ingredient list.
Storing everything bagel seasoning
Keep everything bagel seasoning at room temperature in paper or a bread box for 2-3 days - the fridge makes it stale faster. For anything longer, slice and freeze it, then toast straight from frozen.
Substituting everything bagel seasoning
If you are out of everything bagel seasoning, look for something that behaves the same way in the pan rather than something that tastes the same. Match the moisture level, the cooking time, and the richness, and adjust the liquid slightly if your substitute releases more water. When in doubt, describe what you actually have in the chat and Mr. Chef will rewrite the recipe around it.
Everything Bagel Seasoning recipes: common questions
- What can I make with everything bagel seasoning and not much else?
- Plenty. With everything bagel seasoning plus an onion, garlic, oil, and salt you already have the base of a skillet dinner, a soup, or a simple sauce. Add a starch - rice, pasta, bread, or potatoes - and it becomes a full meal. The recipes above are ordered so the ones needing the fewest extra items come first.
- What is the quickest everything bagel seasoning recipe?
- Look for the entries above marked 20 minutes or less. As a rule, anything cut small and cooked in a hot pan beats anything roasted whole, and one-pan recipes save more time in cleanup than in cooking.
- Can I substitute everything bagel seasoning?
- In most recipes yes, as long as the replacement plays a similar role - similar moisture, similar cooking time, similar richness. Swapping across roles (a watery vegetable for a starchy one, for instance) usually needs a change in liquid or cooking time too.
- How do I use up leftover everything bagel seasoning?
- Fried rice, a frittata, a grain bowl, a soup, or a quesadilla will absorb almost any leftover everything bagel seasoning without a recipe. If you want something specific, tell Mr. Chef exactly what is in the fridge and it will build a recipe around it.