Whole Wheat Bagels
- 150 grams Bread (strong) flour
- 100 grams Whole wheat flour
- 15 grams Brown sugar
- 4 grams Salt
- 2 grams Dry yeast
- 150 ml Water
- 1 fill the pot with water 4-5 cm high from the base Water for kettling
- 1 use enough to colour the water dark brown Brown sugar for kettling
- Preparation: Sift the bread flour, brown sugar and salt if there are any lumps.
- Preheat the oven to 230C so as to bake the bagels straight away after kettling.
- However, do not preheat the oven for too long because the temperature will be too high and the bagels may burn.
- Put the bread flour, whole wheat flour, brown sugar, salt and dry yeast in a bowl.
- Toss lightly, add water and mix well.
- After mixing to a dough start to knead until smooth on a floured work surface.
- Knead for about 20 minutes although you will still feel the coarseness from the whole wheat flour after 20 minutes.
- If necessary dampen your hand to knead the dough if it is too stiff.
- Dust the work surface with some flour if the dough is too wet.
- After the dough is elastic shape into a ball.
- Divide the dough into 4 portions and shape into balls.
- Cover with plastic wrap and moistened kitchen paper.
- Leave to rest for 10 minutes.
- If you're using dried fruit, mix it in when you form your balls.
- I will show you how to shape the dough into bagel rings in detail.
- Roll out into a 10-cm-diameter round after resting the portioned dough.
- Fold both sides towards the centre to make the ends straight as in this picture.
- Roll up the dough from the front.
- When you roll press the dough hard with your fingers to make dense-textureed bagels.
- Seal the end by squeezing the dough together with your fingers.
- Roll into a 20-cm-long sausage shape.
- When you do this try to make both ends slightly thicker.
- Flatten one end of the sausage shape and wrap the other end to seal the ring.
- If you do not seal the ends tightly at this point they might come apart later.
- Shape the dough nicely with the seam side down.
- Place the prepared dough onto parchment paper and cover with plastic wrap or a plate.
- Leave to prove for 30-40 minutes until the dough has doubled in size.
- It takes more or less time depending on the room's temperature.
- After proving cook the dough.
- Heat the kettling water with the brown sugar in it and drop the dough in to cook for 30 to 40 seconds.
- Keep the water gently simmering.
- If the temperature is too high the bagel will form wrinkles on the surface.
- I start to preheat the oven at this point.
- This is the dough just after proving and before kettling.
- The two at the bottom have dried blue berries.
- This is after kettling.
- Can you see the difference?
- They have doubled in size after kettling.
- Put them in the preheated oven straight away after kettling (if the oven isn't completely preheated it's fine to wait until it is).
- Bake at 230C for about 11 minutes.
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Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/147692-whole-wheat-bagels (may not work)