Rice Flour Bagels!!

• 200 grams Rice flour (joshinko)
• 70 grams Grated yamaimo (or lotus root. Refer to the Helpful Hints)
• 70 grams Sugar (cane sugar)
• 40 grams Shortening (or margarine)
• 50 ml Water
• 5 grams Dry yeast
• 1 tbsp Cocoa powder if you want to give it color
• 1 Ham, cheese, lettuce etc. if you like
• 1 additive-free soy milk warmed up for 1 minute in the microwave, 3 tablespoons of lemon juice added in. after it chills, filter through a tea strainer; you can make one portion at a time!! Soy cheese and fruit jam if you like

1. Microwave the water for 30 seconds.
2. Add in the dry yeast, and dissolve it.
3. Mix in the dissolved dry yeast from Step 1 with the rest of the ingredients, and knead.
4. Form it into doughnut shapes, lightly mist with water, place into an airtight container (or wrap a tall container with plastic wrap) and let rise at 30C for 40 minutes using your oven's rising function.
5. Steam for about 15~20 minutes in a steamer (over medium heat), and it is done!!
6. Cover with a wet towel or cover with plastic wrap in order to keep these from drying out until they have cooled down.
7. You can make delicious sandwiches out of these bagels with soy cheese and fruit jam.

flour, yamaimo, sugar, shortening, water, yeast, cocoa, ham, soy milk

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/149189-rice-flour-bagels (may not work)