Monday, June 11, 2018

Onion Poppy Bagels: Truth or Dare Blog With Friends

Today’s post is the next in our series of Blog With Friends theme collaborations. Each month a group  of bloggers get together and each publish a project based on a theme. What I love about this partnership is that it’s not bloggers with similar interests or strengths but a diverse group coming up with a variety of posts. In any given month we may have a recipe, sewing tutorial, crafts projects, book review and/or a technology post all related to the theme of the month.


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This month's theme is Truth or Dare.

There will be individual project pictures and links to what everyone else has to offer at the end of my post, but here’s a peek at what we all came up with:

Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Truth or Dare | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #DIY



I made Onion Poppy Bagels.


Onion Poppy Bagels: Crunchy crust, chewy flavorful center. Just 7 ingredients, quick and easy to make. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #breakfast

Onion Poppy Bagels
Onion Poppy Bagels: Crunchy crust, chewy flavorful center. Just 7 ingredients, quick and easy to make. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #breakfast


"I dare you". Those are pretty scary words, especially coming from your kid. 

I talk to the boys often about this blog, whether to continue writing or if it's time to just let it go. The last time we spoke, I was met with a dare. "Try something outside your comfort zone, Mom, make it more of a challenge".

It's a funny statement coming from my sons. The recipes I develop changed quite a bit once they came along. Before kids, I was more adventurous with ingredients, but once I started cooking for a family, I had to make foods I ultimately thought I had a chance of them eating. So my recipes here have been less avant garde and more pedestrian. They are now grown adults, but they are here for dinner now and then and although their tastes have progressed, they are still rarely adventurous in the foods they are willing to try. And face it, who wants to put their heart and soul into a dish just to throw it out?

One thing I have tried, over and over again, and I have to admit, this is hardly an exotic ingredient, more something most people use fairly regularly, is making breads. The truth is, yeast hates me. We have a history, a longstanding war. I have won a battle or two, but the white flag clearly keeps ending up in my hand.

When the boys had the nerve to dare me to make a bread . . . well, what choice did I have. So for my truth or dare post, I made bagels. Did I cheat? Yes. But I still fulfilled the challenge of this group post.

There is a recipe going around the interwebs, a very popular one for 2 ingredient bagels. I started there, but made some adjustments in ingredients and in the baking. My recipe has just 7 ingredients, all of which I had in the house.


Onion Poppy Bagels: Crunchy crust, chewy flavorful center. Just 7 ingredients, quick and easy to make. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #breakfast

I mixed up the dough and unlike the recipes I'd seen, flavored it. I then kneaded and formed the bagels. Many recipes called for an egg wash, but I used melted butter. And although I used poppy seeds for our topping, since that is a favorite around here, next time I'll try a few different toppings including sesame seeds and dried minced onions.


Onion Poppy Bagels: Crunchy crust, chewy flavorful center. Just 7 ingredients, quick and easy to make. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #breakfast


I baked them in a hotter oven than the recipes I'd seen and this worked out perfectly for me.
Onion Poppy Bagels: Crunchy crust, chewy flavorful center. Just 7 ingredients, quick and easy to make. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #breakfast






Even though they smell delish baking, I let them cool completely before slicing.
 
Onion Poppy Bagels: Crunchy crust, chewy flavorful center. Just 7 ingredients, quick and easy to make. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #breakfast


They came out great, crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside. Perfect.

We toasted ours, smeared with cream cheese and topped with some green onions.


Onion Poppy Bagels: Crunchy crust, chewy flavorful center. Just 7 ingredients, quick and easy to make. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #breakfast


Yes, I cheated. I didn't live up to the spirit of the dare. I did make a bread product, but I avoided using my nemesis ingredient. So for the purposes of this post I chose truth, admitting my ongoing, embarrassing defeat to a fungus. And, I made a delicious breakfast we all loved. Take that, yeast!

As always, any time you make one of my recipes, feel free to post a picture of it to my Baking In A Tornado Facebook Page. I'd love to see it!


Be sure to visit all of this month's other Blog With Friends projects:

Lydia of Cluttered Genius shares Surviving the Beach with Kids.
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Truth or Dare | Surviving the Beach with Kids by Lydia of Cluttered Genius | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com
 
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Truth or Dare | Chocolate Chip Pound Cake with Fresh Strawberry Sauce and Homemade Chocolate Whipped Cream by Dawn of Spatulas on Parade | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com

Tamara of Part-Time Working Hockey Mom shares Truth or Dare, a handful of truths and dares:
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Truth or Dare | Truth or Dare by Tamara of Part-Time Working Hockey Mom | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com


Rabia of The Lieber Family Blog shares Dare to Wear:
Blog With Friends, a multi-blogger project based post incorporating a theme, Truth or Dare | Dare to Wear by Rabia of The Lieber Family Blog | Featured on www.BakingInATornado.com



Be sure to stop by again next month for more theme based projects.

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Onion Poppy Bagels
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Ingredients:
1 1/8 cups flour, divided
2 1/4 tsp baking powder, divided
3/4 + 1/8 tsp salt
2 TBSP dried minced onions
1 cup unflavored Greek yogurt
1 TBSP butter
4 tsp poppy seeds

Directions:
*Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cover baking sheet with parchment paper. Melt butter and set aside.
*Mix together 1/8 cup flour, 1/4 tsp baking powder and 1/8 tsp salt and spread over your kneading surface. 
*In a bowl, mix the remaining 1 cup flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 3/4 tsp salt with the 2 TBSP minced onions.
*Mix in the yogurt until all of the dry ingredients are incorporated. Transfer to the prepared surface. Knead for 5 minutes. The dough will come together but still be sticky. Divide into quarters.
*Roll each dough quarter into about a 9 inch log. Form a circle and pinch the ends together. You will have to pinch one side, turn it over and pinch the other side a few times.
*Brush the tops with the melted butter and sprinkle with the poppy seeds.
*Place on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 23 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from the oven. Cool completely before serving.

22 comments:

  1. When I saw bagels, I had to check out your adventures with yeast. Of course you would find a perfect way around your nemesis. ❤️️
    It's not cheating if it's awesome and turns out wonderfully. I can't believe you made bagels and I absolutely love it!
    They look delicious!

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    1. They were SO good, and the reason of course is that they came out. Which wouldn't have happened had there been yeast involved!

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  2. These look fantastic! Bagel making is certainly a dare and you succeeded. I don't really see the cheat. Just because you didn't use yeast? Not in my book. A successfully home made bagel is really something!!

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  3. So you used baking powder instead of yeast, big deal. Your bagels look delicious, and I am not sure I could have wait and let them cool completely.
    Also I am amazed that your sons ask you to go out of your comfort zone when they still prefer their pedestrian meals as you call them. Haha, such a cool. name.
    Hubby also "encourages" me to not make the same old same old all the time. Still I often end up eating my "adventurous" food alone. Yeah, well.

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    1. Yeah, I've eaten a few thing alone myself. Hubs will try it, but if he doesn't like it, well, that look on his face says it all. Not a pretty sight.

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  4. I love your blog and your recipes and how you combine all of it! I would love to make some of them but I really don't like cooking or baking anymore.. i think since I hit 60 and beyond I am just done with it...I do make the occasional banana bread because my grandson begs me to....

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    1. Thank you for continuing to visit, Renee. I slow down quite a bit on my cooking and baking too, then pick back up at times like now when I have the boys home.

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  5. You're my hero! (And I didn't see in the dare that it had to be a yeast bread!) Now I have a recipe for bagels (which I absolutely love!) that I think I can handle! The boiling part always scared me!

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    1. Yes, definitely try this one. If I can do it, anyone can.

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  6. You nailed it, Karen. When it comes to baking I'm sure you're a champion and that's so true. Still glad you too the dare challenge.

    These bagels with filling uh oh...looks so yummy.

    Hugs,
    www.thepositivewindow.com

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    1. Thank you, Epsita, I'm glad I (sort of) took the challenge too, these bagels were worth it.

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  7. I am allergic to onions so I would have to pass don't want a numb mouth

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    1. I would be very unhappy without onions in my life so I'm sorry to hear that. But you can flavor these with other options than onion if you wanted to.

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  8. Never tried to make bagels, but I will now!

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  9. First, I’m ignoring my purist spouse, who is declaring “they wern’t boiled; they aren’t bagels!” So I will say I am most intrigued with the Greek yogurt, which I love, as an ingredient, and I will work on him to make them. Maybe. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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    1. Yes, they aren't boiled, but he really does need to try them before he makes any judgement. We really loved them and they were just so easy to make.

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  10. Bagels are delicious and surprisingly not difficult to make. These looks delicious. Suggestion. Buy a small, one serving package of fast acting yeast. Make the bread. I do not buy large jars of yeast as it will go bad/flat very quickly. I like the little packages and they have never failed me.

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    1. IDK, not that I don't believe you, I do, but yeast really really really hates me.

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  11. Okay, I am in awe of you! I love bagels. I have a question though you said you flavored the dough. With what? I have never attempted to make any kind of bread because of my apprehensive about the yeast. I want to though. I buy yeast, keep it until the expiration date, throw it away and then rinse & repeat. FOR YEARS!

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    1. Yes, I'm the same way with yeast, and of the times I actually tried using it, I was only successful once.
      I flavored the dough with the dried minced onions.

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