Bagel

The Bagel (בייגל beygl) is a leavened dough, in the form of a big ring, boiled briefly in water and then baked. I followed, with some variation, the recipe found on the number of March 2013 of "La cucina italiana".
Once you are ready I have stuffed some of them with ham and salad, others with a tuna sauce and mayonnaise with the addition of tomato slices.

Ingredients for 12 bagels:

Poolish:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 cup of warm water
• 1 teaspoon of dried yeast or ¼ cube fresh

Dough:

• 1 cup of flour “manitoba”
• 1 cup of flour
• about 1 glass of water
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon of table salt

Finish:

• various seeds, I used sesame, sunflower and flax
• salt

Time: Depends on the rise
Oven: 200 ° C
Cooking time: 25-30 minutes
Difficulty: medium

Prepare the poolish the night before: mixing the water with the flour and baking powder until the mixture is quite liquid. Cover and allow to stand for the whole night away by currents, I put the bowl in the turn off oven.
The next morning the dough has formed bubbles on the surface and will be increased a little. If you do not have time to prepare the poolish or you forgot, start here, with the only trick to double the amount of yeast.

For preparing the dough, pour into a bowl or in a kneader flours, the oil and the poolish and mix by adding water little by little, until it will form a elastic ball. Add the salt, that if you want you can also use as a finish at the end. Knead vigorously. Then formed a long strip of dough and roll it up, then repeating the process in the opposite direction for some time, this makes the dough more elastic. Put the dough in the bowl and let rise in the oven turn off, with only the light turned on and a pot of hot water for 45 minutes.

After the interval forming a roll of pastes and cut into 12 parts. With each roll you close to form a ring, and you'll place on a plate lined with wax paper, leaving a little space between each roll.
Replace the pan in the oven for 30 minutes towards the end of the time put on the fire a pot with water and boil.
Once leavened from the oven, switch to 200 ° C, meanwhile, which heats throw in boiling water for 2-3 bagel once for 2 minutes, turning once and drain them with a skimmer, after which place them on a damp cloth.

Prepare a saucer seeds mixed or saucers several different seeds and press over bagels boiled in water, place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and sprinkle with salt. Bake in oven for 25 minutes, until golden brown.
After they have cooled stuffing to taste with ham, salad, tuna, eggs .... and enjoy!

See the recipe in printable  PDF