Homemade Bagels

Baking bread, or inwards this representative bagels, actually makes me happy.  There is something almost the means dough takes on a life of its own, together with fulfills roughly lightheaded substitution ask deep within my culinary soul.  It grows, puffs together with expands together with turns a gorgeous shade of dark-brown all acre filling the kitchen alongside the unmistakable odour of fresh baked bread.

 I love a expert crisp, chewy bagel together with if y'all practice too, delight brand these soon.  It all starts the black earlier alongside a fermentation starter called the poolish or woman raise dough.  Don’t y'all simply love the audio of that?  Mix together roughly breadstuff flour, yeast together with H2O inwards small-scale bowl.  Cover it alongside plastic twine together with refrigerate the poolish overnight.

The side past times side twenty-four hr menses combine the remaining ingredients inwards the bowl of a stand upward mixer fitted alongside a dough hook.  Once the dough is mixed it is allowed to rising for almost an hr or until doubled inwards size.

 

 Divide the dough into 12 pieces together with shape into tight balls.  Cover them loosely alongside plastic twine together with allow them to balance for xxx minutes.  To shape the bagels, poke your finger inwards the pump of each ball.  Return the bagels to the baking canvas together with allow them to rising for roughly other hour.

 The bagels are together with thence speedily simmered inwards a large pot of boiling H2O mixed alongside baking soda.  Using a slotted spoon, take the bagels from the H2O together with generously range alongside sesame seeds, poppy seeds or a combination of both.

Bake until golden dark-brown together with enjoy!

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Homemade Bagels

Weekend baking at it's best!

Course:

Bread

Servings: 12 Bagels

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the poolish:

• 
  1 1/3
  cups
  bread flour
  


• 
  1/4
  teaspoon
  active dry out yeast
  


• 
  1
  cup
  lukewarm water,
  not to a greater extent than than 90-95 degrees
  

For the dough:

• 
  1
  teaspoon
  active dry out yeast
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  honey
  


• 
  1 2/3
  cups
  lukewarm water,
  not to a greater extent than than 90-95 degrees
  


• 
  5 1/3
  cups
  bread flour
  


• 
  1
  cup
  plus ii tablespoons whole wheat flour
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  salt
  


• 
  unflavored vegetable stone oil for oiling the bowl
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  baking soda,
  divided (must live fresh)
  


• 
  poppy seeds,
  sesame seeds together with coarse body of body of water common salt for sprinkling
  

Instructions

The black earlier baking:

1. 
   
   Add 1 1/3 cups breadstuff flour, 1/4 teaspoon yeast together with 1 loving cup lukewarm H2O to a medium mixing bowl. Stir together using a wooden spoon until combined. Cover the bowl alongside plastic twine together with refrigerate overnight.
   
   

Baking day:

1. 
   
   In the bowl of a stand upward mixer fitted alongside a dough hook, combine the 1 teaspoon yeast, dear together with 1 2/3 cups of lukewarm H2O (not to a greater extent than than 90-95 degrees or it could kill the yeast). Mix inwards the poolish. Add the breadstuff flour, whole wheat flour together with salt. Beat a medium speed until a smooth, rigid dough forms, almost five to seven minutes. Dump the dough out onto a lightly floured travel surface together with knead past times manus for almost 1 minute. Form the dough into a ball together with identify inwards a large, oiled bowl. Cover alongside plastic twine together with allow stand upward inwards a warm place costless from drafts, until doubled inwards size, almost 1 hour.
   
   


2. 
   
   Line a baking canvas alongside parchment newspaper together with brush generously alongside vegetable oil. Divide the dough into 12 pieces shape each into tight balls. Transfer the dough balls to the baking canvas together with embrace loosely alongside sprayed plastic wrap. Let stand upward inwards a warm identify for xxx minutes.
   
   


3. 
   
   To shape the bagel, poke your finger inwards the pump of each dough ball to brand a 1/2-inch hole. Return the bagels to the baking sheet, together with embrace alongside the plastic wrap. Let the bagels balance for almost an hr or until risen together with puffed.
   
   


4. 
   
   In the meantime preheat oven to 475 degrees. Position the oven racks inwards the lower together with middle thirds of the oven. Line 1 baking canvas alongside a clean, lightly moistened kitchen towel together with work ii others alongside parchment paper. Spray the newspaper alongside oil. Bring ii large, deep pots of H2O to a boil. Add 1/2 tablespoon of baking soda to each pot. Add ii bagels to each pot, without crowding (as the bagels volition swell) together with simmer for 1 1/2 minutes. Flip the bagels together with simmer for roughly other 1 1/2 minutes longer. Using a large slotted spoon take the bagels to the kitchen lined canvas pan to drain. Before the are able to dry, sprinkle the bagels generously alongside the toppings, together with thence at i time transfer them to the parchment lined-baking sheets. Repeat alongside the remaining bagels.
   
   


5. 
   
   Bake the bagels for almost 20 minutes shifting the pans from range to bottom together with front end to dorsum halfway through, until deeply browned. Let cool slightly, together with thence serve.
   
   

Recipe Notes

TIPS: Be certain to read the entire recipe several times to empathise the instructions. It's slow but does require a few steps. I also yell upward the bagels could live divided into xvi pieces instead of 12. They are really large bagels together with I approximate I would prefer a smaller bagel. Be certain to lookout adult man the rise, boiling together with baking times if making them smaller.

(adapted from a recipe past times Zoe Nathan of L.A.'s Milo together with Olive, via Food together with Wine Magazine)

I would also similar to endeavour making bagels alongside Asiago cheese.  I am inwards love alongside baking, no uncertainty almost it!  Hope y'all direct maintain wonderful plans for the weekend together with mayhap you’ll live lucky plenty to direct maintain sunshine together with a warm breeze.  I yell upward nosotros mightiness ask to caput southward to larn away from this never ending snow.  Thanks thence much for stopping by!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com