Vegan Bagel Recipe (soft & crispy) (2024)

FAQs

How to get crispy crust on bagels? ›

The boiling before baking step is crucial to get that firm, crisp crust and a chewy interior. Using a spider or spatula, gently place your bagels in simmering water (not a rolling boil) for twenty seconds and remove to a lightly oiled sheet pan.

There's nothing quite like the dense, toothy texture of bagels. In their most basic form, bagels are vegan, made from just flour, water, yeast, and salt. But other non-vegan ingredients—including dairy, honey, and eggs, along with less easily identifiable animal products—commonly appear in commercially produced bagels.

If you want a thinner crust and airier texture in your bagels, shorten the boiling time slightly (around 45 seconds, instead of the 60 seconds called for in the recipe). The shorter boil means the crust has less opportunity to preset, which allows more rising, and thus a “fluffier” bagel.

If your dough is too wet, it'll create large holes in the crumb of the dough and your bagels will be more like French bread, with a fluffy interior (see top photo). When too much flour is kneaded in, bagels become dense, hard and tough, instead of crisp and chewy.

A baking stone, or pizza stone, is a large piece of thick, ceramic tile that sits on the rack of your oven. By preheating the stone along with the oven to a high temperature—think in the 450°F to 500°F range—it picks up and retains a ton of heat that provides exceptional browning for your bottom crust.

Regular bagels are vegan, but some types may include extra flavors, additives, or fillings that are animal-derived and thus not vegan. These include honey, eggs, or dairy in the dough, as well as cheese, meats, or fish in the fillings.

Although yeast is technically alive—it's a single-celled organism that metabolizes food into energy—it's no more an animal than other fungi such as mushrooms. Therefore, yeast is generally accepted as part of a vegan diet.

I mean, its simple, cheap, and vegan so what more could you want for a meal at-home:) But its no NY bagel I will confess.

Bread flour – Because of its high protein content, bread flour makes these homemade bagels delightfully chewy. This recipe also works with all-purpose flour, they're just a bit less chewy than bagels made with bread flour. Maple syrup – It activates the yeast and gives the bagels a hint of sweetness.

Why did my bagels turn out hard or dense? Moreira: Usually if you get dense bagels, it's because they were underproofed. But it could also be that your yeast is bad.

Are any Dunkin bagels vegan? ›

The plain, everything, cinnamon raisin, and sesame bagels are vegan. Remember to ask for avocado, to add some healthy fats to the savory flavors.

Yep, the most iconic cream cheese brand of them all, Philadelphia, is now in the vegan game. It launched its first plant-based cream cheese at the end of 2022, and in June 2023, it launched three vegan flavors nationwide: Original, Strawberry, and Chive & Onion.

Bagels. Vegan bagels include everything, plain, blueberry, and sesame varieties. While Panera doesn't offer a dairy-free cream cheese spread, you don't have to eat your bagel plain! You may be able to snag some avocado or hummus to round out your brekkie handheld.

I put it directly on the rack of the 350 degree oven. Sometimes I put the bagel in the oven whole. This will give you a nice crisp exterior and a warm soft interior. I usually eat the bagel hot and unadorned when I cook them like this.

In order for the bagels to develop that well-browned exterior and slightly dense chewy texture, they must be boiled briefly before baking. This works because the boiling water sets the exterior crust before it hits the oven, preventing the bagels from rising very much, while further developing that browned exterior.

The steam from the base can't escape, so it condenses on your crispy surface and turns it wet and soggy. Use a pizza stone or a pan with holes to get a crispy pizza crust.

No you don't have to egg wash the bagels prior to baking, however it does give them a lovely shine. You could just use egg white if you'd prefer or leave the egg wash out completely.