Golden onion bagels
Homemade bagels are surprisingly simple to make and can be baked right at home. What’s really good when you make your own, is that you can change the flavour as you want. The recipe below is for onion bagels, but you can also have cinnamon and raisins, plain with some sesame seeds on top.
What goes well inside a bagel?
My favourite is simply cream cheese, cucumber and tomatoes in these bagels. If I’m having a plain bagel then along with the cream cheese I add some green pesto and sundried tomatoes. They are lovely for lunch in place of a standard sandwich. Though you really can have anything you want!
Golden onion bagels
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 onion, peeled and chopped
- 200 ml lukewarm water
- 1 tsp clear honey
- 1 sachet of dried yeast
- 500 g strong white bread flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 eggs, light beaten
- Onion seeds or poppy seeds to sprinkle on top
Instructions
- Grease 2 baking trays and set aside.
- Heat the oil and butter in a pan and fry the onions for a couple of mins. Drain and set aside.
- In a jug, mix 200ml of lukewarm water, honey and yeast and leave for 5mins.
- In a large bowl add the flour and salt in a large bowl. Pour over the eggs, oil, onions and yeasty liquid and mix into a rough dough.
- Tip out onto the work surface and knead together until smooth and elastic – this should take around 10 mins.
- Put the dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with a piece of oiled cling film. Place in a warm area and leave until doubled in size, about 1 hr, then uncover and tip onto your work surface.
- Divide the dough into 12 portions and roll into balls. Line up on 2 parchment-lined baking trays and cover lightly with cling film.
- Leave for around 30 mins or until they have risen.
- Make a hole in the centre of each bagel, swirling it around to stretch the dough a little, but being careful not to knock out too much air.
- Preheat oven to 200°c / gas 6.
- Fill a large saucepan with water and bring to the boil and cook bagels in batches for 3 mins. Transfer to the greased baking trays. Sprinkle with seeds and bake in the oven for 10mins on each side, or until golden brown.
- When baked, transfer to a wire rack to cool and fill with your favourite filling. They will keep in an airtight container for 3-4 days.