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Easy Homemade Bagels – The Only Recipe You'll Ever Need

Makes 5 (easily doubled or quadrupled if you want to make more)
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Resting time 1 hour
Servings: 5
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • 250 g strong bread flour
  • 1/2 tbsp caster sugar 9g
  • 1/4 tsp salt 1.5g
  • 1/2 tbsp dried yeast 7g
  • 1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tsp syrup or honey you can leave this out if you don’t have any to hand
  • 150 ml tepid water
  • 1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tbsp dairy-free milk for brushing
  • A few flakes of sea salt to sprinkle

Method
 

  1. Sift the flour into bowl; add the salt, sugar, and yeast.
  2. Pour in the water, syrup and oil, and mix until you have a nice smooth, pliable dough (if you have a mixer with a dough hook use that)
  3. Knead until the dough is silky smooth and bounces back when you make an indentation (probably 5-10 minutes)
  4. Place in a lightly oiled bowl, cover and leave to rise for about an hour, or until doubled in size.
  5. Heat the oven to 220℃/200℃ fan. Line a baking sheet with non-stick parchment (or lightly oil the baking sheet)
  6. Bring a pan of water to the boil. Cut the dough into five equal sized pieces, weigh them if you want them to be exact.
  7. Shape each into a ball, then insert a wooden spoon handle in the middle to make a hole. Twizzle about until the hole is at least 2cm/1 inch across. (Or leave as balls if making burger buns)
  8. Once all the bagels are shaped, tip the bicarbonate into the water.  Place each bagel in the boiling water for about 30 seconds, turning over, and then 30 seconds on the other side. Lift out, drain off the excess water. then place on the baking sheet. Brush with the milk and sprinkle over the salt
  9. Bake for 15-18 minutes until golden
  10. Cool on a wire rack.