Jalapeño bagels

A few beautiful bagels, care of my trusty toaster oven :)

A beautiful risen dough - good sign of things to come.

To make the dough, I used the same recipe as my first time making bagels.

Simple ingredients make the best food - flour, water, sugar, yeast, and chopped jalapeño peppers.

Rolling the peppers into the dough.

Once the peppers are incorporated into the dough, it's just a matter of cutting it into pieces, each with the right amount of dough to make one bagel

The bagels after being proofed and boiled, ready to go in the oven. Just before baking, I drizzled a little olive oil on top and sprinkled some kosher salt on them to bring out the flavor of the peppers.

The finished product - nice and shiny, and cooked to perfection!

Bagels, bagels, bagels!

So I decided to make bagels, since you can't buy them in Korea. Followed a simple recipe from allrecipes.com, and used bread flour for a tougher dough. I added double the yeast called for in the recipe, which made the bagels extra big and fluffy!

Proofing the bagels. Made a baker's dozen, 'cause that's what bakers do...

The boiling stage. A little sugar (1 tbsp) in the water, and only a few at a time so they don't stick together.

Half done!

Baking the bagels in the toaster oven...20 minutes at a time x 5 batches = over an hour and a half of baking time.

The finished product! (almost) a dozen gorgeous and delicious bagels - a couple got eaten while they were still fresh.