Montreal Bagel

Name: Montreal Bagel
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 3 cups strong white bread flour; 7g dried yeast; 1 tbsp caster sugar; 1 tsp salt; 3/4 cup warm water; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 tbsp honey; 1 tbsp sugar for boiling water; 2 tbsp honey for boiling water; sesame seeds to top

A sweeter, denser bagel than New York's — boiled in honey water and baked in a wood oven. Boiling the shaped rings in honey-sweetened water before baking gives Montreal bagels their distinctive sweetness and dense, chewy crust.

Total time

90 min

Prep

70 min

Cook

20 min

Difficulty

hard

Cuisine

Canadian

vegetarianvegan

Ingredients

3 cupsstrong white bread flour

7gdried yeast

1 tbspcaster sugar

1 tspsalt

3/4 cupwarm water

2 tbspvegetable oil

1 tbsphoney

1 tbspsugar for boiling water

2 tbsphoney for boiling water

sesame seedsto top

Instructions

Mix flour, yeast, sugar and salt. Add water, oil and honey. Knead 10 minutes.

Rest 1 hour. Shape into thin rings.

Boil in water with honey and sugar 1 minute per side.

Dip in sesame seeds.

Bake at 220°C for 18-20 minutes.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

Protein

0.7g

Fat

6.9g

Carbs

8.2g

Fiber

0.5g

Sodium

479mg

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