2013/03/19

Bagel

Last year I found out to be pregnant and so happy! But during my pregnancy I had no problem with any food but sweets!!! So I did not feel to cook any and either write this blog. Naturally the body changes and only accepts what baby needs?

Anyway my baby was born without any problem and I started to feel to eat sweets again. It makes me happy but I read an article about "Glycation", which is one of biggest cause of aging(>_<). So for me and for my baby, I try to cook sweets with less calorie and sugar.

Today I made Bagel I hooked on recently.


<Recipe>

Flour                  150g
Whole wheat  100g
Dry yeast             5g
Salt          5g
Beet sugar    12g
Water      140g

1. Put all ingredients in a bowl and mix them.
2. Once mixed, put the dough on the board and knead it until it becomes smooth (around 15min).
3. Roll the dough into a ball, put it back in the bowl with the film, and leave it to be fermented (around 1hour to be double).
4. Punch the dough down, cut it into 4 pieces and roll them into a ball.
5. Leave them for 10 min.
6. Press the dough to flatten, fold 1/3 of top and down to the centre, close the seam using the fingers  and roll the dough into a shape of a rod.
7. Joint the both ends to make a circle (wrap one end with another end).
8. Prepare 4 of 10cmX10cm cooking sheet and place each dough on it.
9. Boil water in a pan with 20g of sugar and boil the dough with cooking sheet (1min per side).
10. Drain off the water and bake them in the oven with 200℃ for 15 minutes.

If you cannot find beet sugar, you can use sugar but I recommend to try maple syrup.
You can replace 10g of flour with 1 table spoon of cocoa, matcha, hojicha powder etc. to enjoy different taste.

Try lots of variations of filling as well♪

Bon profit!!!