This is my main bread recipe, I just love to eat these gui crispy bread with a mildly sweet feeling on the tip of tongue - actually I am eating one nearly every day.

Yes, I also 'sometimes' make myself a bagel sandwhich - they are so tasty it is hard to believe.

While this post is about making bagels, I put the recipe for the bagel sandwhich in the bottom - don't cheat yourself, try the sandwhich.

Ingredients

• 8 cup flour
• 2 tsp dry yeast
• 2.5 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp wheat germ
• 1 tbsp baking soda
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2.5 cup water

Process

1. Mix 4 cup of flour with 1 tsp of dry yeast in a bowl.
2. Add 2.5 cup of water to the flour mix and stir with your hand until fairly blended.
3. Leave for 2-3 hours of raising.
4. Result after raising.
5. Add the rest of the flour (4 cups), the rest of the yeast (1 tsp), 2.5 tsp salt, 2 tbsp wheat germ and 2 tbsp honey.
6. Transfer to a mixer (if not already) and mix slow for 5 minutes with the bread paddle.
7. Form into bagels about 10 pieces.
8. Set in refridgerator over night about 12 hours.
9. Boil up about 2 liters of water in a pot.
10. Add the 1 tbsp baking soda to the boiling water.
11. Start the oven to 200 degrees celcius.
12. Take the bagels from the refrigerator and boil them in the water 30 seconds on each side.
13. Decorate with sesame.
14. Set the bagels in the preheatet oven (200 degrees celcius) for about 20-25 minutes.
15. Finished.

Use cases

Alternative recipes

80g whole wheat flour

220g flour

60g stiff starter

5g salt

2 tbsp black sesame seeds

180g water

15g honey

10g canola oil

Dash of sesame oil

I mixed the dough except the starter and let chill in the fridge overnight. In the morning I let come to room temp and added my starter. I let dough proof until double. Then I divided the dough and shaped into 8 bagels. I let them half proof and boiled with 1tbsp molasses in the water for about 20-30sec per side. I coated the baking sheet with semolina and topped them with chia seeds (i like the crunch). Bake them at 220C for 18 min.