Bagels 🥯

Have you ever considered making your own bagels?

It's not as complicated as you might think! 🤔

I love making bagels on a Sunday morning to use for breakfast or as the bread for my sandwich at lunch!

This recipe is so easily adapted to make plain bagels, everything, cinnamon raisin or even blueberries. ❤️

These are some blueberry bagels that I made!

Bagel recipe (plain)

1 1/2 cups warm water

3 cups all purpose flour

1 tbsp sugar

2 tsp of quick rise instant yeast

1 tsp salt

Directions

In a stand mixer using a dough hook, add all the dry ingredients to the mixing bowl and stir until blended on low about a minute or so, then slowly start pouring the 1 1/2 cups of warm water to the dry ingredients and turn up the mixer to 2 or 3 then let blend a few minutes or until the dough pulls away from the bowl, forming a ball of dough.

Turn off mixer and cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and let rise for an hour. I place my bowl on top of the fridge as there’s lots of heat and helps the dough rise.

Once the dough is ready take the dough out of the bowl and place it on a lightly floured surface. Form a nice ball of dough and then using a sharp knife cut dough into 8 pieces and then roll each piece into a small ball and cover with tea towel.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.

While the oven is preheating get a large pot and fill half way with water and add a teaspoon of sugar to the water (optional). Put pot on stove and turn heat to medium and allow the water to come to a boil.

In the meantime get your bagels ready to boil before baking!

I set up my trays beside my pot of boiling water on the stove and then grab one ball of dough at a time and lightly press my thumbs through the centre of the ball of dough to make a bagel shape then place them on the parchment paper or aluminum foil sprayed to avoid sticking, until the water is ready.

Bring over your second tray and set it up close to the other tray with the bagels and once the water is boiling, carefully add a few bagels at a time and boil in the water for 1 minute on each side. Using a large spoon with holes, remove the bagels one at a time and place on baking tray without bagels on them and place them far enough apart so they can bake with some room to expand.

Continue boiling the bagels until all 8 are done.

If you're planning on using an everything bagel mix on top, shake the seasoning on as soon as they're done boiling and before baking!!

Place each cookie sheet with 4 bagels each in the preheated oven and bake for about 20 minutes flipping each tray top to bottom so the bagels can bake more evenly. Once bagels are brownish remove from oven and let cool.

Once bagels are cooled, store them in a freezer bag and leave on counter top or freeze immediately to keep fresh for later use.

If planning on using frozen bagels, just thaw overnight on the counter and then slice and toast the next morning. It keeps the bagels fresher to eat them right away, so only thaw if you’re planning on using them the next morning.

Any bagels you decide to keep out and use, try to use them up in two to three days as they are fresh homemade bagels so they will go stale quicker then the store bought ones.

Toast them up and enjoy with your favourite toppings!

Darn Good Stuff! 🥯