Best Bagels Ever
Submitted by wwilliams
Chewy homemade bagels from scratch with just 5 ingredients: whole wheat flour, yeast, honey, salt, and water. Boiled then baked with your favorite toppings. From counter to table in about an hour.
YIELD
servingsPREP
25 minCOOK
20 minREADY
65 minMaking bagels at home sounds intimidating until you realize it’s basically bread dough that takes a bath.
Five ingredients. One hour. A dozen bagels with that signature chewy crust and dense, satisfying interior that no grocery store bag can match.
The dough comes together fast with whole wheat flour, honey, yeast, salt, and warm water, then gets a quick knead, a short rise, and a dip in boiling water before hitting the oven.
While they’re still wet from the boil, load them up with sesame seeds, poppy seeds, garlic, onion, sea salt, or go full “everything” and use all of the above.
Pro Tips
- Knead the dough a full 10 minutes. Bagel dough should feel tight and smooth, not soft and pillowy like sandwich bread.
- The boiling step is what gives bagels their chew. Don’t skip it, and don’t boil them too long. Pull them out as soon as they float to the surface.
- Sprinkle toppings while the bagels are still wet from boiling. That moisture is the glue that makes everything stick.
- Mix whole wheat, oat, and white flours for a lighter texture, or go all whole wheat for a denser, nuttier bagel.
Ingredients
Directions
Let yeast proof in water for 5 minutes, then mix in the honey, salt and flour.
Knead for 10 minutes until dough is happy Rise, covered in oiled bowl for 15 minutes Pat dough into rectangular slab 1 inch thick and cut into strips.
Join ends of strips together to form bagels.
Let rise, covered, on oiled tray for 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 375℉ (190℃) and put a pot of water on to boil. After the 20 minute rise is done, drop bagels, one at a time, into boiling water.
Take them out once they rise to the top of the water (Should be anywhere between 30 sec and 1 minute) While still wet, sprinkle on toppings of choice (onion, garlic, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, and sea salt all at once is my favorite) Bake on tray.
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