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I bought a breadmaker just to make my own low-carb bread and was attracted to one that had a bagel feature–why not! Then I combined several ideas into this recipe that makes the most wonderful bread yet!
Ingredients
- 1 c Warm water
- 1/2 t Sugar
- 2 1/2 t Yeast
- 1 c Gluten Flour
- 1/2 c Flax Meal
- 1/2 c Soy Flour
- 1/4 c Oat Flour
- 1/4 c Wheat Germ
- 1 t Salt
- 2 pck Splenda
Instructions
Place water into breadmaker pan and sprinkle sugar and yeast into it. Allow to stand while combining other ingredients in bowl. Add these to the warm water mixture and set machine for 1 1/2 pound loaf cycle. Add sunflower seeds & pumpkin seeds (or other nuts, etc.) toward the end of the kneading phase. If available on your machine, a 2-hour cycle works quite well. Measure out dry ingredients for a second loaf (mix!) at the same time. To make bagels, divide kneaded dough (which has been allowed to rise 30 min.) into 12 pieces (very stretchy, so may need to cut with a sharp knife). Shape each piece into a ball, stretching the “skin” around it as much as possible to make a smooth surface. Cover & let rise until doubled. Gently (this is a trick!) pull and press a hole in the middle of each bagel. Rest a little longer & bring 3 quarts of water to a boil, adding a little malt syrup or sugar (ugh!). Reduce heat to a simmer and preheat oven to 400 degrees. Gently lower each bagel into hot water & simmer 1 min., turning over in middle. Place on baking sheet, greased and/or sprinkled with cornmeal. You may sprinkle bagels with poppy seed, onion bits, sesame, etc., as well as an egg-white glaze. Bake until done, maybe as long as 25-30 min., though these are smaller than the recipe from which I took these directions.
Notes
A slicing machine will make nice thin slices if you freeze the loaf for an hour or two first.
I developed this recipe for the bagel feature on my breadmaker (Breadman ProArtisan), and it will make 12 nice chewy bagels, but I noticed that the rising dough looked like a perfect loaf of bread, so I use it more often for that.
Pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds are optional.
Nutritionals
Nutritional information, per serving.
Calories: 90
Carbs: 6
Fiber: 2
Net Carbs: 4
Protein: 9
Fat: 3
Saturated Fat: 0
2 Comments
Bialys!
I followed this recipe to make dough for bialys and they turned out quite good. As good as I think you can get sticking to low car ingredients.
I do think that the carb counts are off a bit. By my calculations using Fitday, using 14 servings it comes out to 4.5 net carbs, a batch makes 12 bialys at 6.7 carbs (the count goes up because of the lower yield plus the addition of onions and popy seeds.
I am in heaven, thank you!
the sugar in the water is only for added browning. If you don’t really care how browned your bagels are, you can omit this part of the boiling process. You could skip the boiling all together but you would have a loaf bread type of crust instead of the chewy crust of a bagel.
Sounds like an interesting recipe. I’ll have to give it a go as I’m really missing my breads and low carb in the stores is just too outrageously priced.
Thanks!
AJ