I am a relative novice when it comes to bread - so far I've made 4 loaves of bread, 1 batch of white rolls, and 1 batch of wholemeal rolls! But I vowed I would make one bake from each show, and bagels seemed easier than flatbreads or eight strand plaited madness! Bagels always seemed so complicated to me, what with the boiling before baking, but they were actually easy peasy lemon squeezy!
Here is the full recipe....
And here is my simplified, Juliarised version :)
Ingredients:
- 7g sachet yeast
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 450g bread flour
- Tip yeast and 1 tbsp of sugar into a bowl. Cover with 100ml warm water. Leave for 10 mins til frothy.
- Pour 200ml warm water, then add salt and half the flour. Add the rest of the flour in small amounts and keep mixing til you have a soft sticky dough.
- Knead for 10 mins until the dough is smooth. Shape into a bowl and leave in an oiled bowl. Cover with cling film and leave to rise for 1 hr.
- Heat oven to 200C. Divide the dough into 10 pieces (abt 85g each). Shape each piece into ball, then flatten with your palm.
- Now for the fun part! Stick the handle of a wooden spoon into the middle of the ball, and spin! You want to make the hole nice and big, abt 3-5 cm wide.
- Boil water in a large pan and add the sugar. Use a slotted ladle to drop bagels in (I managed to do 2 at a time). Cook for 1-2 mins, turning over halfway through. Set on clean tea towel to get rid of excess water.
- Place on baking tray lined with baking parchment and bake for 20-25 mins. Check your bottoms - you want to hear a hollow sound when you tap.
- Enjoy with cream cheese or whatever your topping of choice is!
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