A Blind Squirrel's Recipe For Bialys.
A Blind Squirrel's Recipe For Bialys.
November 3, 2013 - 5:27pm
Description
The classic onion bialy from my youth chewy and thick crusted. Two weeks and 9 batches with varied degrees of success . I was so happy with the last batch I ate two of them plain.
Summary
Yield | |
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Prep time | 1 hour, 30 minutes |
Cooking time | 12 minutes |
Total time | 1 hour, 42 minutes |
Ingredients
630 g
Bread Flour (My bread machine's max) 372 g
Warm Water (59% Hydration) 1 t
active dry yeast 1 t
sea salt 170 g
chopped onion 1 T
poppy seeds 1 T
olive oilInstructions
Flour,water,yeast and salt bread machine basic dough cycle 7 min.
Shut off bread machine at 7 min.remove dough ball ,put in a Pam sprayed and covered bowl to rise until it doubles in size , in my case 1 hr 15min. (go by size not time). This made 10 bialys.Topping-1 small onion about 170 grams.chopped fine ,put in med. frying pan with olive oil on low heat after a few min. put in poppy seeds saute until onions turn clear, remove and put in a bowl.
The dough was 1000 grams = 10 100 gram bialys
After dough doubles in size remove and fold a few times. I started to break off pieces to put on scale and made 100 gram balls. I then made what looked like 10 little pizzas 5" diameter with a rim around it and a 1" very thin middle.I scooped a Tbs onion/poppy mixture and pressed the back of the tablespoon into each one turn the spoon dropping it's contents into the indentation . I put them on parchment paper and used my peel to put them in the oven 12 min @450 deg.on a pizza stone middle rack.Removed from oven to bakers cooling rack. The most important thing is to eat one while it's still warm out of the oven. Good Luck Dan
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Comments
fine bialys - one of the greatest breads of all time - but hard to get just right.
Happy Thanksgiving
Can I use instant yeast instead of active dry? Also, the bialys I've been buying locally have no filling in the middle, yet have a hint of onion flavor throughout. Can I forego the filling and use onion powder in my dough? If so, how much would you recommend for this recipe? Thanks in advance.