Recipe for homemade bagels
So, we have had freshly baked bagels at home, and wow, they were a hit! You can serve them in a bread basket as they are, so people can spread them with butter or cream cheese. I cut mine in half and filled them all with a delicious homemade chicken salad and crispy bacon.
The holes turned out a bit small, if you ask me, so next time I’ll put aluminum foil balls in the middle to help the holes retain their size better.
Homemade Bagel Recipe
Ingredients
- 8.4 gram Cane Sugar
- 20 gram Yeast
- 300 gram Water
- 27 gram Olive Oil
- 370 gram Wheat Flour
- 6 gram Salt
- 1 Egg for brushing
- Garnish in the form of blue birches and sesame seeds
Instructions
- Put raw sugar, yeast, and water in a bowl and stir it together.
- When both the raw sugar and yeast are dissolved, add olive oil, flour, and salt.
- Sprinkle flour on the table and knead the dough on it. It should be smooth but firm.
- Grease a new bowl with some neutral-tasting oil and place the dough in the bowl.
- Cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and let it sit on the table to rise for 2 hours.
- Sprinkle flour on the table again and knead the dough quickly.
- Cut the dough into eight pieces and roll them into round balls.
- Pour a little olive oil into your palm and distribute it well on both hands and all fingers.
- Take a dough ball in your hands and poke a hole in the middle by pushing your thumb all the way through. Use both thumbs to stretch the hole a bit, so it widens. The hole should be quite large because your bagels will rise during cooking. Repeat for all eight dough balls.
- Use your hands to form them all into nice round bagels.
- Divide a sheet of baking paper into eight pieces, so there's space for one bagel on each. Better a bit too big pieces of paper than too small.
- Distribute your bagels on each piece of baking paper and let them rise for 30 minutes. Optionally, put a ball of aluminum foil in the hole of each bagel.
- Fill a large pot with water and bring it to a boil - it shouldn't be a rolling boil, just a simmer.
- Take a bagel and place it on a slotted spoon, still with the baking paper under it, and place it in the boiling water. You can cook a couple of them at a time.
- Once they're in the water, remove the paper.
- After they have simmered for about 60 seconds, fish them out with the spoon. Remove any aluminum foil balls.
- Brush them with a beaten egg and sprinkle them with your desired topping. I made some with sesame seeds, some with poppy seeds, and some without anything.
- Bake them all for about 20 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit) in a conventional oven.
- Take the finished bagels out, let them cool a bit, and remove any aluminum foil balls.