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Homemade Bagel

You'll never buy bagel at the store again!
Course: Bread
Cuisine: Jewish, Nut-Free, Soy-Free
Author: Cindy Thompson, MS, NBC-HWC | Trimazing! Health & Lifestyle Coaching

Ingredients

  • 1 package dry yeast 2¼ tsp
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • 1 cup warm water

Flax Egg

  • 3 tbsp ground flax seed
  • ¼ cup water

Wet Ingredients

  • ½ cup pureed winter squash
  • ½ cup warm water

Dry Ingredients

  • 6 cups bread flour divided

Boil

  • water
  • salt

Instructions

  • Combine yeast, sugar, and warm water and let sit until bubbly.
  • Make the flax egg by combining flax meal and water.
  • In a mixer with a dough hook or food processor with the bread blade, combine yeast mixture, flax egg, winter squash, and water. Mix to blend.
  • Gradually add 5 cups of bread flour. Add a little more flour if the dough is still sticky and knead about 8 minutes to develop the gluten.
  • Place dough into a bowl, cover with a light towel, and place in a warm spot to rise 1 hour. I simply turn on the oven light (with oven turned off) and put the covered bowl in there—it's the perfect proofing temperature.
  • After dough has risen, remove from the oven, punch down, and cut into 12 100g pieces. Cover pieces with a towel while shaping individual bagel so the dough doesn't dry out while you are working.
  • Roll piece of dough into a log shape and then wrap it around your hand. Pinch the ends together well and roll the O-shaped dough with your other hand or on the counter, using your wrapped hand as a form.
  • Place the formed bagel on a cookie sheet lined with lightly floured cloth. Repeat with remaining dough.
  • Cover formed bagel and let rise 1 hour.
  • Heat oven to 375°F. If using a baking stone, preheat oven with stone.
  • Bring a pot of water to boil. Add salt to taste once water is boiling, it should taste like seawater.
  • Add 3 bagel at a time to the boiling salt water. Boil 30 seconds, then flip and boil another 30 seconds. Remove boiled bagel to baking sheet covered with a silicone baking sheet. Repeat with remaining bagel.
  • If you want sprinkles like poppy seeds, sesame seeds, onion flakes, etc., add them now so they stick to the top.
  • Bake 30 minutes, either removing prepared bagel to a preheated baking stone or on the baking sheet.
  • Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.