Best 2 Sourdough Bagels Recipes

SOURDOUGH BAGELS

Steps:

• Mix sourdough starter, warm water, and flour in a bowl. Cover and let sit overnight; the mixture should look bubbly and "spongy" in the morning.
• Add sugar, salt and additional flour. Mix well.
• Knead on a floured surface for 10 minutes, adding additional flour as needed. The dough should be firm. Place dough in a greased bowl, cover, and let rise until double (sour dough takes longer to rise than traditional yeast breads).
• After punching down, divide dough into 12 balls. Make a hole in the middle of each ball with your thumb, and shape into a bagel shape, with a 2" hole in the middle.
• Meanwhile, bring 2 quarts of water to boil on your stove-top. Drop 2 or 3 bagels at a time into the water; boil for 30 seconds, flip bagels over, and boil for an additional 30 seconds. Drain with slotted spoon and place on baking sheet.
• Brush tops with egg white and add additional toppings if desired (poppy seeds, dried onions, etc.).
• Bake at 350 for 35 minutes, turning once for even browning. Bagels are done when they are golden and shiny.

HOW TO MAKE BAGELS (BREADTOPIA VERMONT SOURDOUGH BAGELS)

Steps:

• Combine all dry ingredients. In the video I demonstrate both an all white flour version (Addendum video) and a half white, half bolted flour flour version (Part 1). If you opt for the half and half version, bolted flour can be purchased here or you can pass whole grain flour once or twice through a 40 mesh screen. Turkey Red flour is used in the video, but common Hard Red Spring wheat would also work very well.
• Add dry ingredients to water. If using a power mixer, first add water to the bowl of the mixer then gradually mix in dry ingredients until incorporated. Mix on lower setter for about 6 minutes. If hand kneading, add water to a large mixing bowl, gradually add dry ingredients to water until incorporated. Then turn out onto counter for 10-15 minutes of vigorous kneading. For the sourdough version: follow the video tutorial found at approximately the 5 minute mark of Part 1. (It is super easy to see visually).
• Initial Proofing: Place the kneaded dough into a covered bowl to ferment for an hour.
• Shaping: Divide the dough into 12 or 18 equal pieces (about 113 g each) and shape into bagels as demonstrated at the 10 1/2 minute mark of the Part 1 video. Place the bagels on dusted cookie sheets, cover with plastic and refrigerate overnight.
• Final Proofing (if necessary), Boiling, Topping and Baking: How you proceed at this stage depends a lot on the type of flour and yeast you used, and possibly your room temperature. Since a picture (or video in this case) is worth 1,000 words, I am going to save you the reading and instead force you to watch the videos Parts 2 and the Addendum to get the gist of this part. It is nothing extraordinarily complex so please do not fret.
• Basically, an all white flour bagel leavened with common commercial instant yeast will be ready to go into the boiling pot of water straight from the fridge. Whereas a sourdough and/or Bioreal yeast leavened bagel may need up to a few hours at room temperature to rise some before being ready to boil. Whichever path you take, the bagels will be ready to boil when they have risen a bit and are somewhat (not much) spongy to the touch.
• Baking Time & Temperature: Preheat your oven and baking stone to 500ºF. Bake topping side down on the bagel boards for 4 minutes then flip over onto the stone for an additional approximately 14-16 minutes. Just go by site on when they're done baking. Not all ovens bake the same. When the bagels have turned a light golden brown, they're likely done.