This is much, much tastier if you make it in the oven than the microwave. But it’s still good in the microwave, and the nutritional content is the same.

Core Ingredients

• Bread-like substance. Bagels are highly encouraged, but pita bread is great here too. We’ve heard that it’s even possible to make this using pizza dough, but that sounds fake.

• Tomato sauce

• Cheese

Preparation

• Take a bagel or other bread-like-substance.

• Put tomato-based pasta sauce on top.

• Put cheese on top, if you’re using cheese.

• Cook in the microwave in 30-second intervals or in the oven until the cheese melts and/or the bagel is hot. If you’re cooking this in the oven, put the pizza bagel in the oven on broil, but don’t go anywhere! Broil will melt the cheese and cook the bagel to a delicious crispiness very fast, so keep a close eye on it. For our Irish friends, broil is Very Hot. Use 200°C.

Variations

• Italian spice mix on top of the pasta sauce is the secret ingredient of top-quality pizza bagels.

• Anything you like to eat on pizza can go on a pizza bagel.

You can use any wheat
and wheat by-products
if the Sheriff’s Secret
Police don’t catch you.

Vegan cheese would work here, but the tastiest
vegan cheeses are often kinda expensive. Or you
could omit the cheese entirely.

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