Fragrant, melt-in-your-mouth pastries are always a great start to the day or a warm and pleasant ending. Unfortunately, in our time, most housewives are very skeptical about home baking, believing that this undertaking is incredibly troublesome, requiring a lot of time and attention.

Of course, there are quite difficult recipes that will require considerable effort from the hostess, but at the same time, there are hundreds of simple and very affordable baking recipes that do not require special culinary knowledge and practical abilities from you.

Moreover, you will get great pleasure from the result you get, because, whatever one may say, home-made cakes are many times different from store-bought ones.

Firstly, you are not limited by the choice of ingredients, secondly, you always know how high-quality products were used in cooking, well, and thirdly, pastries cooked with love smell differently!

One of these culinary masterpieces is the recipe for making homemade bagels, a simple, but at the same time very tasty dessert, which, depending on your desire, can turn into a second course.

It is not in vain that such a culinary product got its name, because a properly twisted bagel really resembles horns. This dish is often found in national cuisines of various nations: in European, Moldavian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and many others.

Surely, you are interested in how you can cook delicious stuffed bagels, because there are many recipes, but choosing the most relevant ones is quite difficult. So that you do not have to search for a long time and try various options to your own taste, we decided to offer you the best and simple recipes for making homemade bagels.

Remember that, as in any baking, in the process of making bagels, the most important thing is to knead the dough correctly, for this it is important to approach the baking process with a good mood and high spirits, then your bagels will literally “breathe” your positive and turn out incredibly light and crumbly in the mouth.

Recipe for homemade bagels

For cooking you will need:

• flour - 3.5 cups;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• yeast - 25 g;
• sugar - 30 g;
• milk - 3/4 cup;
• - 4 tbsp. spoons;

To brush dough and filling:

• softened butter - 6.5 tablespoons.

Sift the flour first, and then in a large bowl mix it with a pinch of salt and sugar. Then, in a separate container in warm water, it is necessary to dissolve the prepared yeast, it is important that they are very fresh.

When dissolved, add them to the flour mixture. Now beat the eggs with a mixer and gradually add milk to them, without stopping beating. When the mixture turns into a homogeneous mass, then add it to the common bowl with flour.

After that, add warm softened butter there and actively stir the dough until it becomes soft and smooth. Now the dough must be allowed to brew and rise, this is one of the secrets of making bagels.

To do this, cover with a clean towel and put in a warm place for about 1 hour, during which time the dough should almost double in size.

Now, when the dough has “approached”, it must be kneaded, kneaded, and then divided into 2 equal parts, forming balls from them. Now let's do modeling, for this we will prepare the surface: wipe it dry and sprinkle it with a fly.

We roll out one ball of formation of a layer with a thickness of about 0.5 cm, even thinner is better. Now we grease its entire surface with butter, previously melted in a steam bath, and then we begin to cut small triangles out of it with a sharp knife. In total, you should get about 35 pieces from both balls of dough.

Each triangle must be twisted, starting from the wide side into a roll, then bend the ends slightly to form a crescent. When all the bagels are formed, line a baking sheet with parchment paper, lay them out and cover with a towel for 30 minutes. At this time, we heat the oven to 190 °.

After the time has elapsed, the prepared bagels should rise again, grease each with butter, previously melted, and send to the oven for 20-25 minutes.

It turns out that the dough for bagels can be the most diverse, for example, yeast, puff or shortbread, and what a variety of fillings awaits us! With jam, or, on the contrary, add cheese or pieces of meat, and then you get salty bagels, it's all in your hands!

By the way, puff bagels, we are well aware, are nothing but favorite, such popular buns in France! By the way, they just earned their unusual name thanks to their shape, because croissant, from French, means a crescent.

Recipe for puff pastry

For cooking we need:

• flour - 3 cups;
• eggs - 4 pcs.;
• apple cider vinegar - 1.5 tsp;
• margarine - 375 g;
• sour cream - 1.5 cup;
• sugar - 2.5 cups;

Sift the flour, and then carefully mix it with margarine. In a separate container, we grind the egg yolks, a pinch of salt and apple cider vinegar, after which we add sour cream there, again mix the weight thoroughly.

Then pour the prepared mass into flour with margarine, mix everything again. Ready, kneaded, we send it to the refrigerator for 2 hours, where it should be infused. At this time, we will create a cream for bagels. To do this, beat the egg whites with sugar, we get a lush cream.

Then we take out our dough, divide it into two balls, and begin to roll them out until a layer 0.5 cm thick is formed. Cut each circle into small segments (the size depends on what size you want to get bagels).

Each triangle is thickly greased with cream, then we turn them into a tube. Then put them on a prepared baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at a temperature of 180 °.

The rolls will be ready when a crispy crust appears on their surface. By the way, the recipe for bagels can remain the same, but the filling can be easily changed, for example, add jam, condensed milk or even cottage cheese!

Recipe for bagels with jam

We will need:

• 400 g sour cream;
• 5 cups flour;
• 400 g margarine;
• a pinch of soda;
• 400 g jam (any).

Sift the flour, soften the margarine and mix it with sour cream, then add soda there. After that, gradually add flour, while constantly kneading the dough. When the mass turns out to be homogeneous, then the dough is ready - we send it for 30 minutes in the refrigerator. We divide the dough into two equal parts, roll it into layers 0.5 cm thick and cut it into segments.

Lubricate each triangle with a thin layer, and then twist it into a tube. We heat the oven to 200 ° and bake the bagels until cooked. Ready-made buns can be sprinkled with powdered sugar on top, so they will look even more appetizing.