These homemade Everything Bagels are absolutely incredible! Leavened dough is gently boiled and baked to perfection. Perfect slathered with cream cheese!
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Dense, chewy, and slightly crisped when toasted: the hallmarks of a perfect bagel. Preferably also slathered in cream cheese, but that’s personal preference. To me, an everything bagel with cream cheese is total comfort food. You too? Well good news: you don’t have to go out for bagels anymore (well, at least not all the time!).
These homemade Everything Bagels are simple and satisfying to make all on your own. Read on to learn more!
How To Make Everything Bagels
The method for making bagels includes two cooking moments:
- Boiling
- Baking
Bagel dough is made using yeast, which you can read all about in my article, “Baking With Yeast”. Essentially, yeast is a living organism that when combined with other ingredients, causes the dough to rise yielding a pillowy mixture which is then baked.
The key ingredients for homemade Everything Bagels are:
- Yeast
- Bread Flour
- Sugar
- Salt
- Egg (for an egg wash)
- Everything Bagel Seasoning
Steps To Make Everything Bagels
Although there are a few steps to follow to make homemade bagels, each one is worth it!
- Combine yeast, water, and sugar and allow to rest until frothy and fragrant.
- Add bread flour and salt, mixing together until combined.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface, kneading until elastic and smooth.
- Allow to rise until dough has doubled in size.
- Divide dough into small balls, forming each in to a round and using your fingers to poke a hole in the center.
- Boil bagels gently and quickly, transferring to a cooling rack.
- Brush with egg wash and sprinkle with everything bagel seasoning.
- Bake until lightly golden brown!
Ways To Make Homemade Bagels Your Own
What’s your favorite bagel at your local bagel shop?! The sky is the limit here: add whatever ingredients you like to make your favorite. A few ideas:
- Add cinnamon to the bagel batter and then top each bagel with a cinnamon sugar mixture before baking.
- Add chopped fresh herbs, like rosemary and thyme, directly to the batter.
- Top each bagel with freshly shaven parmesan cheese.
- Top each bagel with large-flake sea salt.
- Stir dried blueberries in to the bagel batter.
What To Serve With Everything Bagels
- A collection of different favored cream cheese
- Mimosas (or these Pomegranate Mimosas!)
- Fresh Fruit
- Soft Scrambled Eggs
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Everything Bagels
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups water (100 to 110 degrees)
- 2 1/4 tsp dry yeast (one small package)
- 1 Tbs sugar
- 4 1/4 cups bread flour, divided
- 2 tsp salt
- Cooking spray
- Cornmeal
- 1 egg, lightly whisked with 1 tablespoon water
- 1/3 cup Everything Seasoning, or a mixture of poppy seeds, sesame seeds, sea salt, dried onion
Instructions
- Pour water into a large bowl and add yeast and sugar. Stir gently to combine and allow to stand for about 5 minutes, until lightly frothy and fragrant.
- Add 4 cups of flour and salt to the liquid mixture, stirring to combine. If mixture appears wet, add remaining 1/4 cup of flour. Once a loose dough has formed, pour on to a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and combined. Use additional flour if dough is too sticky.
- Spray a large bowl with cooking spray and add dough to the bowl. Cover with a kitchen towel and place in a warm spot in your kitchen until the dough doubles in size. Depending on the temperature of your home, this can take anywhere between 1- 1 1/2 hours.
- Punch dough down and allow to rest for 5 minutes. Turn dough out on a lightly floured surface and divide into 10 pieces. Roll each ball in between your hands and use your fingers to make a hole in the center of each dough ball. Gently stretch and form the dough, placing bagels on a baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray. Cover with a towel and set aside for 10 minutes. The bagels will sightly rise.
- Meanwhile, prepare to boil the bagels. Fill a large stockpot with water and set over medium high heat. Cover another baking sheet with about 1/4 cup corn meal - you want enough to cover the pan loosely, as this will prevent sticking when the bagels bake. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Once the water is gently simmering, you're ready!
- Gently lower 3 bagels into the simmering water, cooking gently for about 1 minute, turning once throughout cooking. Transfer boiled bagels to a cooling rack sprayed with cooking spray (this helps avoid sticking!) as you complete the remaining bagels. Once all bagels are boiled, brush each one with the egg wash and sprinkle with the everything seasoning. Transfer to the cornmeal covered baking sheet.
- Bake for about 20 minutes, monitoring to ensure they don't brown too quickly (everyone's ovens are different!). Remove from oven and cool on a cooling rack. Slice, toast, and serve with cream cheese!
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