for 12 pieces

Dough

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

Everything bagel mix

1 tbsp	blue poppy seeds
1 tbsp	sesame seeds
2 tbsp	dried onion, coarsely crushed
½ tsp	garlic granules
½ tsp	sea salt

To shape

2 litre	salted water
3 tbsp	honey
1 tbsp	sodium bicarbonate

Meat

	oil for frying
2	flank Steak (each approx. 160 g)
½ tsp	salt
a little	pepper

Bagels

200 g	cream cheese (e.g. Philadelphia)
50 g	baby lettuce

How it's done

Dough

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

Everything bagel mix

Mix the blue poppy seeds with all the other ingredients up to and including the salt.

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 salted water, honey and sodium bicarbonate to the boil, cook the bagels 3 at a time in just-boiling water for approx. 12 secs. Remove with a slotted spoon, drain thoroughly and return to the baking paper. Sprinkle with the everything bagel mix.

Bake for approx. 15 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 220°C.

Remove the bagels from the oven, leave to cool on a rack, cut open.

Meat

Heat the oil in a frying pan. Fry the meat for approx. 1 1/2 mins. on each side. Season the steaks, cover and leave to rest for approx. 5 mins., carve into thin slices.

Bagels

Halve the bagels crosswise, spread with cream cheese, fill the bagels with meat and baby lettuce.

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