Homemade Bagels
There’s not a great place to buy bagels near where we live… Bruegger’s is decent but not a real deli and I’m tired of the wild goose chase to find bagels. So I decided to make my own tonight. Had no idea what to expect about how they’d come out, but they were actually fine. I did learn a few lessons for next time, though.
Here’s the recipe I used: Homemade Bagels from the Food Network.
I used the bread hook attachment on my mixer for all the mixing and kneading and that made things easy. The dough rose well and was easy to shape into bagels. I put them on a sheet of wax paper to rise for the second time and they stuck really badly. Getting them off the paper messed up the shape before I boiled them. When they rose, the holes totally filled in. Maybe I should have stretched them out more before letting them rise for the second time. I cooked them for 23 minutes instead of 30 and that was plenty.
The bagels tasted good – the yeast flavor really came out. We made bagel and egg sandwiches for breakfast.
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