i'm gonna give you a foolproof recipe
for homemade bagels absolutely delicious
if you love a bagel then this is for you
so let's do this here i have got 750
grams of strong flour and then we will
make a well in the middle with your
hands
so in here
we're going to go in with 450 mils of
tepid water that means lukewarm blood
temperature and then i want to add
the yeast now when you buy yeast
it's often or nearly always in these
little sachets here so seven grams of
our dried yeast goes into the tepid
water just use your fork
to whisk in the yeast
the heat and the water will wake
the yeast up then i'll go in with three
teaspoons
of sugar i'm just using a nice light
golden sugar there that will give it
not just the ability to wake up the
yeast but also a gentle very subtle
sweetness then i'm going to add three
level teaspoons of salt
so that goes in
mix that up first
and then start taking the flour from the
outside to the inside
and it will go to like a porridge like
consistency
and get thicker and thicker you can see
at this stage it's getting elastic can
you see how stretchy it's
looking and as you bring
it together you can bring more and more
flour in now i'm using hands right with
a light touch of your hand just move it
around
so i normally
would need this for like 10 minutes
so we'll keep it moving just bringing in
those little bits of extra flour as you
need and once it's come together you can
be a bit more brutal you can pick it up
and throw it down and pull it apart and
roll it back up pick it up throw it down
if you have a little look at it you know
we've got a really nice
smooth
elastic
beautiful dough there you go a nice
sort of little therapeutic knead up of
course you can use
you know a machine
and let that do all the hard work but
somehow
it doesn't feel
quite as romantic
so there you go
a lovely dough
kiss a little bowl
with a tiny bit of oil
just so it doesn't stick
and
put your dough
in here
look how lovely and soft
and shiny that is so let that prove for
about an hour and a half
in a bowl
rubbed with oil
get yourself a clean tea towel
and i would just run some hot water on
it
just wring out
your tea towel
which has been put in the hot water
right and we'll just lay that over the
top like that
so lots of stuff is now happening in
this little world that we've created so
an hour and a half it will double in
size and then i'll show you what to do
next
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so an hour and a half later we have a
beautiful dough that has doubled in size
look at that when we turn it out it is
just
so bubbly
just peel it tease it away from the edge
it smells amazing so we want to knock
back the dough that means
bash the air out of it um so we just
knock that out
and then we can start to
just knead it again let's just get a
knife
okay so divide this roughly
or as best as you can into two
and then each half will go into three
try and get it about right
so look we've divided it into six balls
roughly
you can see i'm double handing them
you know just to look pro a little
dusting of flour just stopped anything
sticking outrageously
each dough we're now going to take into
half
like that
what i do is i put a little bit of
pressure on the dough
and i use my fingers like a little kind
of cage
and i push the palm down
until you get traction
right and you go in a circle and then
you start to push your fingers up and
take the pressure off and then you get
that lovely little dough and once you do
a few you'll just kind of get the spirit
of it
and it's going to be lovely
pressure down
pressure off
lovely ball
okay
so we've got our 12 beautiful
balls there over here by the way
this is kind of the really different
part
of making
your very own bagels boiling water
that's the first part of cooking boiling
then baking
and that will give you that kind of
chewier spongier texture that's quite
unusual particularly to bagels now the
one ingredient that goes in here
that is i guess unusual is bicarbonate
of soda so that's particularly used in
baking to give lift and bubbles but
often you see it in recipes for noodles
or in this case the bagel it kind of
gives a kind of bouncier outside
and also will help to change
the ph of the dough on the outside so it
goes golden and really beautiful when
you bake it now we're going to get
thumbing now thumbing
is a particularly nice thing to do get
one's thumb and then put it in the flour
put it in your dough
move it around take it off and then you
can just stretch the dough
and do this
and as soon as you've done that you want
a nice little circle
and there's your potential bagel you
want to go a little bit bigger because
it kind of does tend to shrink back
again so be generous don't be too
aggressive with it and then we can poach
it right so we'll lay that down there
second thumbing
unusually therapeutic
get the kids involved get no one
involved maybe just go thumbing on your
own so there you go a beautiful array of
well-thumbed bagels
so now we go into the water i will
season it with a little salt actually
we'll get that simmering you can just
extend that hole a little bit as you lay
it in like that so we're going to give
that about a minute on each side and
then we're going to get them in lovely
trays so
look at these they're plumping up really
nicely once you've done your two minutes
in the boiling water
take them out drain them
so
let me show you what we're going to do
here so egg wash them first right around
the edge right in the middle
then we'll take the sesame seeds
and generously sprinkle them on top
poppy seeds on the other
with the lovely
sunflower seeds they are delicious and
they have quite robust outer shells i
personally think instead of just
throwing them on which you can do
just crush
those sunflower seeds
and on the inside you just get more
flavour more texture
and i think they eat better so in the
ovens these are going to go
the oven has been preheated to 200
degrees celsius and i'm going to cook
these for around about 25 minutes
now this is a fan oven
so it should be pretty even
and they will be golden and delicious
and then the only question you have to
ask yourself is what are you going to do
with them delicious
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so here they are they absolutely smell
amazing so let's just have a quick look
you can see it's going to be really
crisp on the outside and spongy on the
inside i'm just going to get a serrated
knife and cut into this
just use the length of the knife
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so let's get some butter on there you
could go
you know conserve jams
savory smoked salmon beautiful salt beef
there's so much you can do with it let's
have a little try
oh it's still got the cube
but it's so
so delicate and elegant and
spongy
so good guys what are you waiting for if
you want to have a go at making your
very own homemade bagels this is the
recipe for you it's really good fun to
make and i know you're gonna just love
it enjoy