Bagel Recipe

I made bagels for 4 Weeks To Fill Your Freezer a few weeks ago. So I thought I would post how I make them.

If you have a bread machine you can follow the directions from this recipe here. If you don’t have a bread machine you can use the steps below.

I used to have a bread machine and used it to make these but since it broke I have been making them by hand with my mixer.

Step By Step Instructions (recipe is below)

First I mix up all the dry ingredients together except the yeast.

Warm the water and add yeast stir to dissolve. Add in the honey and let sit a few minutes until foamy.

Then I add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix well in my mixer. If you don’t have a mixer to use, mix with a spoon until all the ingredients come together and are mixed well.

Place dough on a floured board and knead until smooth and elastic. About 8-10 minutes. Your dough should look like this when done kneading.

Place the dough in an oiled bowl and cover and let rise until double about 1 hour.

Here it is before rising.

Here it is after rising about 1 hour.

Once it is done rising I place it on a floured surface and divide into balls. I make 12 balls with this recipe.

Then I poke a hole in the center of each one and stretch it to a bagel shape.

I cover them and put them aside to rest while I heat up about 2 quarts of water to a boil. Once the water is boiling I add 2-3 bagels at a time to the boiling water and boil about 30 seconds on each side. Then I drain them on a cooling rack while I do the others.

They puff up nicely. I place them on a lightly oiled cookie sheet and brush them with egg wash(1 egg beaten with 1 T water).

Then I bake them for 15 minutes in a 425-degree oven.

Then cool on a wire rack. These turn out chewy on the outside and soft on the inside. These are so much better than the store bought ones.

Bagel Recipe

Shelly

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Course Bread

Cuisine American

Servings 12 Bagels

Ingredients

  

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• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 T gluten flour
• 1 1/2 t salt
• 3 t yeast
• 2 T honey
• 1 1/4 c water
• 1 Egg for egg wash

Instructions

 

• Mix up all the dry ingredients together except the yeast.
• Warm the water and add yeast, stir to dissolve. Add in the honey and let sit a few minutes until foamy.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix well in my mixer. If you don’t have a mixer to use, mix with a spoon until all the ingredients come together and are mixed well.
• Place dough on a floured board and knead until smooth and elastic. About 8-10 minutes.
• Place the dough in an oiled bowl and cover and let rise until double about 1 hour.
• After rising, punch down the dough and place the dough on a floured surface and divide the dough into 12 balls.
• Make a hole in the center of each ball and stretch it to a bagel shape.
• Cover the bagels and put them aside to rest.
• Heat up about 2 quarts of water to a boil. Once the water is boiling, add 2-3 bagels at a time to the boiling water and boil about 30 seconds on each side. Let the boiled bagels sit on a cooling rack while boiling the rest.
• Place them on a lightly oiled cookie sheet and brush them with egg wash (1 egg beaten with 1 T water).
• Bake them for 15 minutes in a 425 degree oven.
• Cool on a wire rack

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Don’t let all the steps deter you from making this recipe. It is not hard just a little time-consuming but the end product is so good you won’t regret it at all.

Let me know if you make these and how they turn out.