This cheesy bagel is great if you’re craving garlic bread! You could eat this for lunch, or include it on the side of a pizza fakeaway!
Bagels are something that I always have in the house. It seems so strange that although in reality it’s just bread but in a different shape, they are something that when someone say’s the word ‘bagel’, all I can think is ‘ooh that sounds nice’. Bagels have been popular from before I can even remember. So popular that by simply pretending to be a bagel, one user on Tinder landed over 1000 matches in one week!
Hole foods
Sometimes I think about bagels and wonder is there is a reason why there is a hole in the middle. Imagine if they decided to fill the hole and have a bagel bread?! Well as amazing as this would be, it turns out that the hole actually serves a purpose.
There are a couple of reasons as to why bagels have holes in the middle. The first being that it is easier to consistently cook a bagel. This is because the hole enables the baker to make sure that it’s cooked all the way through. Bagel dough is incredibly thick. Therefore, if the hole was not there, it would be rather difficult to know if it was cooked or not.
The larger surface area of the bagel also means that it can have that chewy crust that’s so delicious and possible the best part of a bagel. In order to create that chewy crust, the bagel is boiled first before it’s baked. The amount of time that the bagel is boiled for affects the inside texture so generally they are only boiled for around 30-60 seconds.
A hole lotta history
Ever wondered where the bagel came from? Well, there are many who claim to be the originators of bagels, however, nobody really knows exactly when or how bagels exist.
The first claim was in the 14th century, that Germans took pretzels to east Poland during migration. These pretzels eventually evolved into the circular roll with the hole in the middle that we know and love today. Before it was known as a bagel, it used to be called a obwarzanek. The obwarzanek became massively popular when Queen Jadwiga, who was the first female monarch of Poland. She gave up bread and pastries in favour of eating obwarzanek for lent.
Another claim says that a baker accidentally invented the bagel in the late 17th century when he made it as a tribute to the King of Poland at the time. They named it ‘beugel’, which was Austrian for ‘stirrup’. At the time this was fitting due to the Kings love of horses.
I’m not entirely sure which invention claim I believe to be correct. However, it happened, and for that, I am glad. I don’t think I’d lead a happy life without a bagel in it.
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Details
1 serving
5 minutes
15 minutes
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Ingredients
1 New York Bakery co Seeded bagel thin
2tsp Very Lazy garlic
20g Low fat cheese
Garlic seasoning
Directions
- Turn on your grill and place your bagels in for 10 minutes until crispy.
- Remove the bagels, spread the lazy garlic evenly between the two halves then top with the cheese.
- Return the bagels to the grill for another 5 minutes, or until the cheese has melted.
- Remove from the grill and season with garlic seasoning.
Last updated: 20th October 2021
