for 24 pieces

Dough

500 g	white flour
¾ tsp	salt
¼ cube	yeast (approx. 10 g), crumbled
3 dl	milk
1	egg white, beaten
2 tbsp	liquid honey
50 g	butter, soft

To shape

2 litre	water
60 g	sodium bicarbonate

Rocket cream cheese

40 g	rocket, 5g set aside
2 tbsp	olive oil
125 g	plain organic cream cheese
½ tbsp	lemon juice
¼ tsp	salt
¼	cucumber, diced
a little	Tasmanian pepper
50 g	smoked salmon in slices, torn
2 tbsp	unsalted, shelled pistachios, roughly chopped

Paprika cream cheese

125 g	plain organic cream cheese
1 tbsp	sweet paprika
¼ tsp	salt
5 g	beetroot shoots
1	organic lemon, use grated zest only
1 tbsp	dried onion
2 tsp	poppy seed
2 tsp	sesame seeds

Birchermuesli bagel

125 g	plain organic cream cheese
100 g	frozen berry mixture, thawed, mashed with a fork
1 tsp	icing sugar
1	red-skinned apple, thinly sliced
4 tbsp	crispy muesli
30 g	milk chocolate, shaved

How it's done

Dough

Mix the flour, salt and yeast in a bowl. Add the milk and all the other ingredients up to and including the butter, knead to form a soft, smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1½ hrs. until doubled in size.

To shape

Shape the dough into a roll, cut into 12 pieces and shape into balls. Lightly flour the handle of a wooden spoon and make a hole in the centre of each. Allow the dough rings to form around the spoon handle until the opening measures approx. 4 cm in diameter. Place the bagels on a baking tray lined with baking paper, cover and leave to rise for approx. 15 mins. Bring the water and sodium bicarbonate to the boil, allow 3 bagels at a time to infuse for approx. 12 secs. in just-boiling water. Remove with a slotted spoon, drain thoroughly and return to the baking paper.

To bake

Approx. 15 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 220°C. Remove the bagels from the oven, allow to cool on a rack, cut open.

Rocket cream cheese

Puree the rocket with the oil, stir in the cream cheese and lemon juice, season with salt. Spread onto 8 bagel halves. Put the cucumber and pepper onto 4 bagel halves. Place the salmon, pistachios and rocket on the other 4 bagel halves.

Paprika cream cheese

Mix the cream cheese and paprika, season with salt. Spread onto 8 bagel halves. Put the beetroot shoots and lemon zest onto 4 bagel halves. Scatter the onions, poppy seeds and sesame seeds over the other 4 bagel halves.

Birchermuesli bagel

Combine the cream cheese, berries and icing sugar. Spread over 8 bagel halves. Put the apple and crispy muesli onto 4 bagel halves. Place the chocolate on the other 4 bagel halves.

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