Vegan Bagels

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Look no further, you have just found the best bagel recipe there is! I love it soooo good. I cut the bagels in half and use them a sandwich bun. Delicilous!

[tygrelover]

i really want to make these, they look delicious! i'm wondering... what's a wok?

[Bohemian_Vegan]

i really want to make these, they look delicious! i'm wondering... what's a wok?

A wok is a large saucer-like asian frying pan, usually deep and wide. Im sure you could just use a pot with boiling water and without a significant difference 

[moderndisaster]

my hands were the bread machine.
i used 1/2 wheat 1/2 unbleached white flour.
i added a tad more water while kneading.
i poked holes in balls of dough rather than trying to shape them myself. made for some damn cute bagels, if you don't mind my saying.
after boiling, i tried some variations with seasoning. some bagels got sesame seeds, some nutritional yeast AND sesame seeds, some cinnamon (er, pumpkin pie spice actually) and raisins, some a sprinkle of spicy sunflower seeds my roommate had toasted earlier in the week.
like many people suggested, i baked at 500 for 10 minutes.

verdict -
#1 - next time, i plan on making 6 not 8 bagels. that way they would be small sandwich size.
#2 - my bagels were pretty dense. they tasted kind of like two day old bakery bagels... pretty tough. i think letting them rise a LOT longer would help... but this is my first time ever trying to bake any sort of bread product myself - so that's just an assumption.
#3 - as far as toppings go, the cinnamon raisin bagels were a near bust. the raisins just kinda sat on top of the bagel but also fell into the hole making the entire thing puff up like a dinner roll. i want to try making cinnamon raisin bagels by mixing them into the dough before boiling. next time. sesame seeds worked fabulously, but next time i'll toast them first. sunflower seed mix would probably have worked if i had larger bagels and used oil (or margarine?) as an "adhesive" rather than water.
#4 - dense or not... they taste like bagels, they're cute as hell, and i consider this a valiant first attempt at bread-baking!

[BreyettEyes]

moderndisaster...those look scrumptious*!*!*~ 

[workingdee]

A++ Recipe!   

I've never made any sort of bread before and these turned out really well I think.  They didn't rise as much as the pictures here, but maybe I needed to knead them more?  They have a great texture and I can't wait to experiment with more flavors~

I don't have a bread machine, do you think that also could be why they didn't rise a whole lot?

[lizzysama]

This is a pretty good recipe. However, when I boiled my first bagel, it dissintegrated!  It was just a blob of gelatinous goop. LOL. After that, I reshaped the rest and coated them with flour to make them not disintegrate. I also put them in the water using a spatula.
For flavoring, I fried some onions and added them to the wet ingredients. I also dipped them into sesame seeds and after I ran out of those I used poppy seeds.
Overall, some of them rose more then the others and they were a little small, but they were tasty. I made 10 bagels, but had to throw that 1 disintegrated bagel away.

[Althea Randolf]

Yummy! Try these with cinnamon, cumin, a little vanilla and almond extract, and some raisins. They were so good!

[AmandaBrooke]

WHOA.
I added garlic and sundried tomato to my bagels (made 4 rather large ones) and topped them with roasted sesame seeds, and found out that I accidentally used wheat flour (translation problem), but these turned out great!  A wee bit on the dense side, but it just kept me fuller for longer- not a bad thing at all in my book!
Will definitely be playing around with other flavors.
Topped it with tofutti herbs & onion cream cheese, and the Sundried Tomatoe, Caper & Olive Tapenade that I found on this site. Loved it, loved it, and so did my carni boyfriend!!!

[Ano_dan]

Been craving bagels for sometime now. Found this easy recipe, made 8 in total. Topped 2 with basil, 2 with chopped pumpkin seeds, 2 with plenty of ground black pepper and left the last two plain. Absolutely lush. Used 2/3 wholmeal flower and 1/3 white and after cooking (and alot of kneading!) the result was soft with just enough chew to satisfy.  Just make sure you let them cool down, it allows the bagels to set and makes for an easier cut. Going to make a big batch of these for sure.

Also let them rise for an extra 10 mins in a warm oven; preheated it to a high temp then stuck them in with the door ever so slightly ajar.

[hopfrog]

This were yummy and simple.  I made mine with sundried tomatoes, minced garlic, and oregano.  Like other reviewers, I used whole wheat flour + gluten.  I never made bagels before, so I wasn't sure what to expect.  The dough was rubbery, didn't rise much, and I was worried.  Didn't need to be.  Most of the dough expansion was when I boiled the dough.  The end result was very good.  I will make these again.

[jessie lee]

perfect! I made these with all whole wheat flour, put them in the oven at 500 for 8 minutes.  it was an easy, quick and healthy recipe.  I will definately make this again. 

[hoopy~d]

These were great. I loved them. I also do not have a bread maker. My husband usually does the baking, but I baked these thanks to the comments on how to make them without a bread maker. I added chopped jalapenos to a few, blueberries to two, and left a couple plain and topped them with sunflower seeds. These will definitely be made a lot from now on. The jalapeno bagels were great with my tofu scramble. Thanks for the delicious recipe. I don't know if I feel this way because I baked them but they were the best bagels I have ever had.

[Nixie]

I had to tweak this since I'm studying nutrition and am bread-machine free:
-I can't eat white bread without feeling like a chunk, so I put half whole wheat and half white
-I added some [read: liberal amounts] of flax meal
-Doubled the sugar (brown, o' course)
-Halved the salt, I don't think I'd even notice if it was done away with completely
-Added Walnut and Almond pieces
-you'll need more water than the recipe calls for

For the bread-machine-free:
mix 1/2 cup water [slightly warm], sugar, salt and yeast, let sit for 10+ min
mix wet ingredients with dry, forming a dough
IMMEDIATELY make the bagels, don't let the dough rest (point: it rises as a bagel so you're not squishing the air out when you cut and roll dough into bagels)
let raw bagels sit for about 45 min (more time is better, but I'm impatient)
Boil bagels for like...3 minutes, they start to look swollen and decidedly sticky
dip in a bowl of corn meal (rather than oil), just the bottom half, not the whole thing
set on pan, let rest for another 45 min
cook at 475*F for 10 minutes, give or take
[cooked mine in a convection oven]

review: [with my tweaking] super awesome. they're definitely bagels, super cute and chunky =) Kinda dense though and they didn't get as big as i would have liked, definitely filling though. I ate mine with a patty-shaped falafel, spinach leaf or two, and hummus. Cilantro tastes good, as well

[lkshep]

Great chewy bagels - no need to buy any at the store! Used 1/2 whole wheat flour and 1/2 white whole wheat flour. Added oat bran on top. Great flavor. Excellent as is or as toasted, and plain or with fig jam, honey, or used as a burger bun! Next time might add onion or garlic powder for a different flavor. Thanks!