Homemade Bagels
One of Gardener Boy's first requests when I started baking was bagels. I'm so sorry I pushed it off as long as I did! These are so simple, and so delicious! I only made half the recipe, and I'm sorry I didn't make all of it...
My favorite way to eat these is to slice one down the middle, spread on some butter, and toast it. Leaving it open-faced add a think layer of crunchy peanut butter, topped with jam. Yum!!
I got this recipe by searching the internet, and found this great website that gave really simple instructions. So, thanks John D. Lee for your awesome recipe (check out the short bagel-making video at the bottom of the website!).
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You will need:
4 cups bread flour
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tsps salt (I suggest adding 1/2 tsp more)
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tsps instant yeast
1-1/4- 1-1/2 cups of warm water.
Directions:
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. You don't have to worry about soaking the yeast when you use instant yeast. The dough should feel stiff, but add the extra water if it's really stiff, or you can't get all the dry flour incorporated. If you want to make cinnamon-raisin bagels, this is the time to add about 1/2 a tbsp of cinnamon (add more or less according to how much cinnamon you like) and a handful of raisins to the dough.
Plop the dough down onto the counter, and knead for about ten minutes, or until the dough is nice and smooth.
Cut the dough into 8 equal sized balls, and let them rest on the counter for 20 minutes.
Pre-heat your oven to 218 C (425 F).
Take each of the dough balls and using two hands, roll it into a little snake on the counter. When the snake is longer than the width of your two hands, wrap it around your dominant roiling hand. The dough rope should be wrapped so the overlapping ends are together at your palm, near the start of your fingers.
Take the two overlapping ends, and use your palm to squish/roll these two ends together. Once the dough is fused, you should have a perfectly circular bagel-to-be!
This part of the process takes a little practice before your bagels look really professional.
It's ok if they don't look perfect. I think that the more home-made they look, the better!
Take the two overlapping ends, and use your palm to squish/roll these two ends together. Once the dough is fused, you should have a perfectly circular bagel-to-be!
This part of the process takes a little practice before your bagels look really professional.
It's ok if they don't look perfect. I think that the more home-made they look, the better!
Let your bagels rest on the counter for about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring a pot of water to boil (fill it about halfway), and grease a large baking tray lightly.
Meanwhile, bring a pot of water to boil (fill it about halfway), and grease a large baking tray lightly.
After the 20 minute wait, your bagels will start to look puffy, and it's time to get them boiling! Add them as many at a time as you can to your boiling water without crowding them (when you first out them in, make sure they don't stick to the bottom).
Boil for about a minute, turn them over, and boil for another minute.
Take them out and let them dry for a minute. Then place them on your oiled baking tray. Repeat until all the bagels are boiled.
Boil for about a minute, turn them over, and boil for another minute.
Take them out and let them dry for a minute. Then place them on your oiled baking tray. Repeat until all the bagels are boiled.
Add the tray to the oven, and after 10 minutes, flip the bagels over, bake for another ten minutes; and they're done!
I made them a second time, and this time around I put onions and sesame seeds on!
Sadly, my onions got a little burnt.
5 comments:
Nice pictures babe!
thanx! im loving the part where i set it up and take a million pictures :)
awesomeness!!! soooooo happy you moved to blogspot. Who gave you that genious idea?
they look so tasty!! like i would buy from a store! and i'm from the east coast, i know my bagels.
nice orange you got there.
(p.s. how do you know that avi didn't encourage you to make this blog so that you would just bake MORE? hm... ha.).
p.p.s. genius, sara. genius.
I tried those bagels, they came out so yummy!! Proud of you!!!
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