Description
Dotted with caramelized onions or sprinkled with salt or seeds, bagels are simple to make once you get a hang of the shape.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 cups flour
- 2 tbsp sugar
- ¼ cup. Vegetable oil
- 3/4 cup milk, lukewarm
- 2 tsp fast action dried yeast
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 egg + 1 more for egg wash
- 1 tbsp. milk
- Poppy or sesame seeds, sea salt, or caramelized onions or raisins to sprinkle on the bagel, optional
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl add sugar, milk and yeast. Give it a rough whisk and let it sit till the yeast is activated.
- Once the yeast gets frothy, add vegetable oil and 1 egg and roughly whisk the mixture.
- Mix salt and flour together. Add the flour one cup at a time to the yeast mixture and start mixing the dough. Once all the flour is incorporated, bring the mixture out on a lightly floured surface and knead the dough for about 5 minutes
- Lightly oil a bowl big enough for the dough to rise. Place the dough in the bowl and lightly brush its surface with oil. Cover the bowl with a plastic wrap and keep in a warm spot for 2 hours or till the dough is double in size.
- After the dough rises, transfer it onto the kitchen counter and punch it down lightly to knock out the air.
- Divide the dough into 8 equal parts and roll them out into a log. Pinch the ends together to form a bagel shape.
- Repeat with the rest of the dough and let the bagels rest covered with a towel for 15 minutes.
- Boil water in a deep pan filled halfway through. Once the water starts boiling, turn the heat on low to keep the water simmering.
- Drop one bagel at a time into the simmering water and cook for 30 seconds on each side. Place them on a baking tray.
- Brush the bagels with egg wash and sprinkle sesame seeds on them.
- Bake the bagels for 15 to 20 minutes at 400 F in a preheated oven. Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
- Category: Baking, Bread, Breafast