Healthy and Super Delicious Bagels

Back in the day when we used to eat white flour, our favourite breakfast was bagels and cream cheese. Big, thick, doughy bagels, slathered with inches of cream cheese. One of our best memories, was when as a family we were travelling to Alberta. Our parents had stopped at a Tim Horton's for breakfast in Regina and  had ordered us all bagels and cream cheese. Well to our delight the Timmie`s staff were extremely generous and layered those bagels with the most cream cheese you ever saw. Either the bagel man had a lapse of judgement and forgot the proper amount per bagel (it was super early), or the cream cheese was going to expire and so had to be consumed,  or that`s just the way people in Regina eat their bagels! ; )  All of us were happy campers and ready to travel another day. Now however white bagels and cream cheese are a breakfast of our past, but Praise God! our clever mom has come up with a healthy alternative:

Delicious Spelt Bagels with  yummy dairy free-carrageenan -free cream cheese spread

Carole`s Bagels
adapted from More of Canada`s Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes 

11/4 cup of water
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp honey
4 1/2 - 5 cups of light spelt flour or 3 3/4-4 cup of whole spelt flour
13/4 tsp bread machine yeast

1 tbsp granulated sugar

Add all ingredients in order except sugar into bread machine pan.

Select Dough cycle. Stop bread machine after 40 minutes. Do not allow dough to rise. Remove dough from pan and place on a lightly covered surface, cover with large bowl and let rest for 10 minutes.

































Cut dough into 12 pieces and shape into bagels. Place onto prepared baking sheet and let rise for 20 minutes on a  warm place ( we put ours on the oven). Meanwhile preheat oven to 400 and add baking stone.























































































































Fill a pot with water and bring to a boil, add the 1 tbsp of sugar to water. Immerse bagels into boiling water one at a time for 20 seconds or so until dough becomes a little puffy. Place on a prepared stone, sprinkle with sesame seeds or chia seeds and bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes.


























































































































Enjoy!