What to add to the dough for bagels to make them puffy

Bagels are a versatile tea pastry that will go well with any drink. This is an ideal dessert that will stay fresh for a long time and does not require long cooking. The key is to make a fluffy dough. For this, you need to add kefir to the base.

The idea of making fluffy bagels with kefir was published on the page of food blogger Svitlana with the nickname recepti_svitlana21 on Instgaram.

Ingredients:

• 150 ml of milk
• 75 g of sugar
• 8 g of dry yeast (or 25 g of fresh yeast)

• 2 eggs
• 50 g of butter
• 150 ml of kefir

• a pinch of salt
• 1 tsp of vanilla sugar
• 650-700 g of flour
• 1 egg yolk + 1 tbsp of milk - for greasing
• you can use any filling (poppy seeds, thick jam, cherries)

Method of preparation:

1. Add baking soda, salt, eggs to kefir. Mix well.

2. Add melted butter.

3. In a separate bowl, mix warm milk, yeast, and sugar. Leave for 5-10 minutes.

4. Add vanilla sugar to the kefir mass.

5. Stir and pour in the yeast mass.

6. Mix gradually and add flour.

7. Knead the dough and put it in a warm place for an hour. Then refrigerate for about 40 minutes.

8. Divide the dough into 3 parts.

9. Roll out one part and divide it into 4 more parts. And then each part into 3 more.

10. Form the bagels.

11. Grease them with a mixture of egg yolk and milk.

10. Bake at 180 degrees for 20-30 minutes (until lightly browned).