Homemade bagels. Add honey, if desired (see Editor's Note). Remove the bagels with a slotted spoon and place them on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Dip the bagel tops in desired toppings.
A little also goes into the water that the bagels get boiled in.
This gives the bagels their classic shiny,.
Boiling bagels gives them that distinct chewy exterior.
You can have Homemade bagels using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Homemade bagels
- You need 300 g of bread flour.
- Prepare 3 g of instant dry yeast.
- It's 6 g of salt.
- Prepare 15 g of sugar.
- Prepare 170 g of warm water.
- You need 2 L of water.
- Prepare 3 table spoon of honey.
Plain water will do the job, but you can also add barley syrup to the water for a slightly darker colored bagel. Some people add baking soda, lye or sodium carbonate for a more pretzel-type crust. How do you make bagel toppings stick? Place six bagels on each of the baking sheets.
Homemade bagels step by step
- Mix flour, yeast, salt, sugar, and water(170g)in a bowl and knead until it forms a dough. (when placing salt and yeast, keep them away from touching, otherwise the yeast won’t do it work!).
- Cut the dough into 8 and roll it into a circle. Let it rest for 10min under a wet towel/kitchen paper..
- Preheat the oven to 200c°(392F°)..
- Mix 2L of water and honey into a pot and heat it up until 85c°(185F°)..
- After the dough is ready, stretch the dough into a rectangular shape..
- Roll it to a cylinder shape. Close the end tightly..
- Press the one end..
- Connect both end and shape it so it is like a donut. Make sure to close the end tightly so it won’t open when heated..
- Put the shaped dough into the heated water(step 8) for 45 sec on each side. (Don’t do shorter or longer than 45 second each).
- Place it on a oven sheet and bake in a preheated oven for 25 min..
Transfer the bagels, four at a time if possible, to the simmering water. Increase the heat under the pan to bring the water back up to a gently simmering boil, if necessary. But not only are homemade bagels possible, they're absolutely worth making. Homemade bagels are irresistibly chewy, boast a crisp golden-brown exterior, and taste fresher and more flavorful than anything you can buy. Plus, you can get endlessly creative with toppings and mix-ins.