Homemade gluten-free Bagels:

Well, this recipe has been a long time coming! I have tried several different bagel recipes, and have had a few requests for a good bagel recipe, and I think I have finally found it!!!!! 

It takes a little while, but it's really easy to make.

I want to expirement farther, and try making blueberry ones, cinnamon-raisin ones, and so on. But I just couldn't wait to share the basic recipe with you, so here it is!

I hope you try it out, and if you try other variations, please let me know!!

1 cup brown rice flour

1/2 cup sorghum flour

1/2 cup potato starch

1/2 cup tapioca starch

1/2 ground flax seed

1 tblsp. xanthan gum

1 & 1/2 tsp. salt

1 tblsp. rapid rise yeast

2 tblsp. honey

1 tsp. cider vinegar

2 tblsp. canola oil

1 & 1/4 cups warm water

1 tblsp. molasses

1. Preheat your oven to 170 degrees (or lowest temperature. Mine only goes to 170).
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, mix all the dry ingredients until well blended.
3. In a small bowl, whisk together the wet ingredients - honey, vinegar, oil and water.
4. With the mixer slowly running, pour in the wet ingredients. Then, mix on medium speed for 3 minutes.
5. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop even balls of dough onto a wax paper lined cookie sheet. Take each ball and carefully form into a bagel shape. (You can grease your hands with vegetable shortening or spray your hands with cooking spray, if the dough is too sticky). Place the formed bagels on the cookie sheet. Allow several inches in-between each one, for rising. Repeat with remaining dough.
6. Turn off the oven. Place the cookie sheet in the warm oven, and allow bagels to rise for 35-40 minutes, or until they have really puffed up.
7. While the bagels are rising, fill a large pot 3/4 full with water. Bring to a rolling boil, and add 1 Tbsp of molasses to the water. The molasses will create a nice chewy outside to the bagel.
8. Once you remove the bagels from the oven and are ready to boil them, preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
9. Gently place one bagel at a time in the boiling water. Boil on one side for 30 seconds, flip the bagel, and boil it for another 30 seconds (I like to use a large, slotted spoon for this). Remove bagel from boiling water, and place on a cooling rack that has been placed over a towel. Repeat with remaining bagels.
10. Place boiled bagels on a cookie sheet coated with cooking spray.
11. Bake bagels in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes, or until they are nice and golden brown. Remove from oven, and allow to cool on a cooling rack for 10 minutes before eating. You can eat the bagels warm, or allow them to cool completely before storing in an air-tight bag. To make ‘day old’ bagels taste as good as fresh, simply microwave for approximately 20 seconds. These also freeze VERY well! Wrap individually in plastic wrap and place in a zip-lock bag. Remove plastic wrap, and microwave for 1 minute to re-heat.