Follow this quick and easy recipe for some DELICIOUS New York Style Bagels. No special equipment needed!
In a large bowl add the sugar and instant yeast. Then add in the warm water. Wait 5 minutes for it to bloom, in doing so you are insuring that your yeast is active. You want your water around 105-110 degrees Fahrenheit. If it’s any hotter, it may kill the yeast. If it’s too cool, it may not dissolve the yeast. In a separate bowl combine the bread flour and salt. Then add the molasses and flour/salt mixture to the yeast mixture.
If you are using a stand mixer, fit it with a dough hook and knead on low for 10 minutes. If you are kneading by hand, knead for 15 minutes. The dough will be quite firm. Form the dough into a ball then cover and rest for 1 hour. Your dough will have doubled in size after resting.
Punch your dough to deflate it. Then take it out of the bowl, make it into a round ball again, and divide in half. You will have two separate dough balls. Then divide those in half again, giving you a total of 4.
You are going to split those 4 dough balls in half one more time, giving you a total of 8 equally sized portions of dough. Then make them into more uniform balls. Cover and rest for 10 minutes. While those are resting, prepare a large aluminum baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper.
Now it’s time to form the bagels! Take a dough ball, and roll it into a log shape that’s about 10 inches long, you’ll want to be able to wrap it around your hand with some overlap like in picture #10.
Then where the ends over lap, you’ll rub into the counter to fuse those ends together. Next, you will make the center hole bigger. You want to do this because if you don’t, the hole will disappear when baking.
Cover and rest for 15 minutes. While the bagels are resting, prepare your boiling station. Add the water, molasses, and baking soda to a large (in diameter) pot. Bring to a boil. The molasses will give your bagels that beautiful golden color and the baking soda will give you the chewy crust. Preheat your oven to 415 degrees Fahrenheit. And prepare a place to put your bagels post-boil. I like to put a cooling wire rack over a baking sheet, this makes for an easy clean up.
Prepare your topping station by putting the toppings on a plate. I have a plate with everything but the bagel seasoning, poppy seeds, and sesame seeds. At the end of the 15 minute rest time the bagels will have slightly puffed.
Once the water has reached a rolling boil, put 3 bagels in (or however many fit comfortably.) Boil for 1 minutes on each side, so a total of 2 minutes. Then remove from the water and place on the wire rack. Boil the rest of the bagels. It’s normal if your water foams slightly.
Now it’s time for the toppings! I recommend doing the toppings about 20 seconds after the bagels are boiled – so doing it in batches as they get taken out of the water (this gives the bagels time to slightly cool off yet still be wet enough for the toppings to stick adequately.) To do so, place the bagel top side down on the topping plate, gently twist it side to side, then put it on the baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Once they are all boiled and topped, baking @415 for 20-25 minutes.
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New York Style Bagel Recipe
Dough
Boiling Water Mixture
Toppings
Instructions
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Add the yeast and sugar in a large bowl. Then add in the warm water and let it sit for 5 minutes to bloom.
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In a separate bowl, combine the bread flour and salt. Then add the molasses into the yeast mixture. Followed by the bread flour and salt. If using a stand mixer, knead on low for 10 minutes. If kneading by hand, knead for 15 minutes. Then form the dough into a ball, cover, and rest for 1 hour.
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Punch down the dough and divide into 8 pieces then shape into dough balls. Rest for 10 minutes. While that is resting line 2 1/4 baking sheets with parchment paper.
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Then roll the dough balls into a "log" that's about 10 inches. Then wrap it around your hand and connect the ends by rub the ends into the counter. After the ends are fused, rest for 15 minutes.
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While that's resting set the oven to 415 degrees Fahrenheit and bring a pot of water with the baking soda and molasses to a boil. Once that's reached a ROLLING boil add in 3 bagels (or however many can comfortably fit in the pot.) Each side gets boiled for 1 minute. Then take them out of the water, and add the desired toppings.
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Bake for 20-25 minutes.
