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Bagels!

Last weekend. I thought it was a real long time I haven’t cook bagel and it’s been a while I wanted to come some… then I checked out my recipe online and realized it was actually 3 years since I cooked any… so it was indeed a really long long time!!! I used the same recipe, and since I was preparing them for breakfast I used very simple toppings: plain, brown sugar, sesame seeds, and mixed seeds. Actually I used half of the ingredients of the recipe and since I didn’t have sourdough I used 7g of yeast; and made 7 bagels, so I guess the recipe makes more 14 than 10 bagels, unless you like giant bagels!!!

Again I was surprised how simple it is and it seems quite impossible not to succeed. I poached them on the evening and baked them in the morning because there’s nothing like eating freshly baked bread in the morning!

It was the perfect start for a Sunday before spending time in the garden cleaning and taking weeds.

Sunday’s breakfast

A few days ago I saw pictures of bagels on IG and I remembered how easy it is to make some and how delicious it is (my bagel recipe). But I had first to masterize the croissants. Now that I’ve finally managed to make real butter croissants I prepared bagels for this morning. Since it’s bagels for breakfast I prepared plain bagels, and just coated them in sugar and vanilla instead of seeds. And because it’s summer or almost and the melons are ripe and juicy, I also prepared a plum-melon smoothie to go with. Just half green melon and two plums. Have a beautiful Sunday!!

My bagels recipe

So, last week I told you about these delicious and amazingly simple bagels I made for the first time. And since it was too good I couldn’t believe it was true, remember? I’ve tried the recipe again, with a few variations and yes! they are delicious and it’s really not difficult. So I’m ready to share the recipe now!

For 10 large bagels I use 500g of flour (white, whole…); 200g of water; 20g of sugar; 1 egg; 25g of butter; 25g of sourdough; 5g of yeast; 10g of salt. For the topping 1 egg and seeds you like. In a bowl I set the flour, add the water, sourdough-yeast-salt, sugar, egg and stir well. Then add the butter and mix until the dough is soft and smooth. It takes about 10 to 15min. Then let the dough rest under a wet clothe for 1h. After that time flatten the dough and roll it to obtain a tube. Cut it in 10 equal pieces and let rest under a wet clothe 15min. Make balls with each piece of dough, flour littly the top. Now, let’s form the bagels. With your index, punch a hole in the middle of the ball and roll it around to increase the size of the hole until it reaches about 3cm. Take care to keep the dough uniform all around. Repeat for each ball, and let rest under a clothe for 30min. Prepare a Pan of biling water, boil each bagel on both sides for 1min30, and drain them. Now the topping part can start. With a brush spread the batted egg, then chose the topping of your choice, set in a plate and roll the bagel in. Line the bagels on a cooking plate covered with cooking paper. Bake at 200deg for 15min.

Et voila!  Ready to eat in less than 2h and so delicious that eating industrial bagels is not an option anymore!!

Bagels

For lunch I eat quite often bagels that I buy in supermarket nearby my work. They have one brand that I like quite much but not always. It’s been a long time I’ve been thinking about making some bagels myself but I imagined that making them with a good shape and the boiling+baking kind of stopped me from trying: it’s gonna take too much time I was thinking. How stupid!!!

But recently the itch of trying got more and more important and I finally did. First, it was much shorter and simpler than I thought and quite fun; second, shaping them was easy and fun; third, they are the best bagels I’ve eaten so far, except maybe in NY, but I don’t remember well, it was quite some time ago!! I made only very few, rather small (the proportions were for 4 or 5 bagels, I made 6), plain and multigrain types.

As for the recipe, since it was my first time and it was too perfect, I want to try again with more variety before giving you a recipe. I’m thinking there was a lot of beginners/first timers luck there!!! 

Sandwich for lunch

Recently a lot of my lunches at work look like this! I really love whole grain bread or bagels, I spread cream cheese or cottage cheese, then top with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, leaf of salad, rucolla, sprouts, and my lunch is ready! When it’s not cream cheese it’s avocado slices. Super simple, tasty, crunchy-creamy and easy to make and eat in a very short time.

Lunch time

I’ve always hated cafetaria for lunch. The single idea of taking food on a tray disgusts me. I don’t have much time to go out for lunch, or I could take it but most of the time after lunch outthen I feel sleepy the whole afternoon. So I’ve always turned around the problem by either bringing my lunch from home,buying  something on the way, and since in Japan I’ve always had access at work to a fridge and a sink, so I often prepare my own luch on the spot. Always something very simple.

Recently I really like to use bagels or fresh bred I can buy on my way in the morning. When it’s tome to est, I fill it with a bit of cream cheese, avocado slices, baby leaf salad, cherry tomatoes… And in less then 5 minutes it’s ready!!!

Bon appetit!

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