Whole Wheat Bagels ❤️ Low Sugar, Low Oil ❤️ Healthy Staple

🍞 Ingredients: (Makes 10 bagels; halve all ingredients if you only want to make 5.)

🌼 Dough: Bread flour 380g, whole wheat flour 60g, spelt flour 60g, ground flaxseed 10g, brown sugar 15g, salt 8g, ice water 295g (hold back 15g and add as needed), instant dry yeast 5g, butter 5g.

🌼 Poaching Sugar Water: Water 1000g, caster sugar 50g.

🍞 Method:

1️⃣ Put all dough ingredients except the butter into the mixer bowl and mix until a thick membrane forms, then add the butter and mix to a thin membrane.

2️⃣ Immediately divide the mixed dough into 10 equal pieces, shape into tight balls, and bench rest for 5-10 minutes.

3️⃣ Shape into bagels. Refer to Photo 2 or Photo 4.

4️⃣ Cover the shaped bagels and proof for about 30 minutes. If your oven takes 30 minutes or longer to preheat thoroughly, start preheating it to 225°C now.

5️⃣ Bring the water and sugar for poaching to a boil, then turn down to a gentle simmer. Poach the proofed bagels for about 30 seconds per side, drain well, and arrange on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

6️⃣ Bake on the middle rack of the preheated 225°C oven for about 16-18 minutes.

❤️ Baker's Notes:

1. If you don't have spelt flour, replace it with regular whole wheat flour. If you don't have ground flaxseed, you can omit it.

2. The original recipe is from Teacher Ziyou (Free); I tweaked it slightly by adding spelt flour and ground flaxseed.

3. If 10 bagels is too many, cut the recipe in half. The last photo shows Teacher Ziyou's original 5-bagel formula.

4. This formula is very low in sugar and fat and packs plenty of whole grains, making it a great staple bread when you're watching your weight.

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