Homemade Gluten-free Pumpkin Bagel 🌱🎃🥯😋❤️

Hello everyone, hope you have a joyful weekend so far! 🤗

I love pumpkin since a child from baking goods to food dishes and drinks. This morning, it crossed my mind that it is quite hard to find a place selling gluten-free, dairy-free bagels that tastes great. I decided to make pumpkin bagels instead of muffins. 😁👍

Recipe:

1. 200g pumpkin purée (fresh or canned pumpkin is fine) mixed with 150ml coconut milk and 1/2 cup of starch.

2. 1 cup of gluten-free all purpose flour (I am trying out this new flour made of brown rice, flaxseed, quinoa and it is wonderful), mix with 3g active dry yeast (mix with warm water and brown sugar till frothy) and 2 tbsp of avocado oil or EVO.

I used stand mix today for quick blend and let the dough rise for few hours. Final blend with cacao chips and pumpkin seeds. Bake at 350F for 30 mins, I got 6 small bagels out of this amount of flour. 😋👍

I’m very happy with the result, so soft and chewy texture inside while crispy outside just how a nice bagel tastes like. I enjoy it so much over coconut cream and shredded coconut with sesame sprinkles today. I can’t wait to try this for breakfast with my cashew cheese tomorrow. 😋👍

As always, be inspired, be joyful, take a picture and Enjoy it! 😋❤️

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Straight from the oven little treat! 😋👍

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[Kainan Guest]

Really nice looking bagels Koko. Also I admire that you went ahead and made your own gluten free bagels when you couldn’t find any around 👍

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Awe thank you Kainan for saying that! 🤗🙏

I recently went to this famous place Einstein Bros. Bagel that now they have one gluten free bagel on the menu but I didn’t like it at all. 😅

I’m glad to make it the first time and it turns out great 😋👍

Hope you have a nice Sat so far! 😊

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Thanks I’m just relaxing after a long day at work. I got the rest of the ingredients I’ll start that granola tomorrow

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Very nice, enjoy your weekend starting now and great job on planning on making granola tomorrow. 😁👍

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P.S. if you are looking for a fun relaxing show, watch Million Pound Menu British Restaurants investments on Netflix. I’m on them right now, 2 seasons total. 😂 It’s like Shark Tank in US. 😁👍

[HungryHufflepuff]

These bagels look great. I love bagels and I love pumpkin so I think this sounds like a great combination.

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Thank you H. very much for saying that! 😊🙏Please give it a try when you have a chance. Pumpkin purée makes the bagel dough bursting with flavor. Very nice over a cup of coffee. 😋👍

Hope you have a beautiful Saturday so far! 🤗

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Awe thank you Happyman4 for saying that, when I was having it, I thought of your fabulous doughnuts you made some time ago. 🤔😋👍

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Thank you Happyman4 for saying that, much appreciated esp from a master baker like yourself! 😊🙏

Love to share what I am able to make and have fun in the kitchen. 😁

Hope you have a fantastic weekend so far! 🤗

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You know I watched the movie The Beach, it’s beautiful that I learned it was filmed on the Thai island of Ko Phi Phi Lee. 😇❤️

That’s an excellent idea to be at the beach and enjoy a nice meal over the ocean breeze with broad horizon of the blue sky. I’m sure your family is going to enjoy that very much and joy all around. 😊

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator]

Wow! Koko - these are so impressive and I bet they taste amazing. I have never seen pumpkin puree here, so I am going to keep a look out , so inspiring Koko as always.

Sorry I have not had time to do any cooking , will.do the weekend 😁

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Awe thank you Debs very much for your kindness! 🤗🙏Today I went over my parents to give Maxi his oat bath and manicure, pedicure, I brought over these bagels and they enjoyed so much as they never had this type of savory pumpkin flavor in a bagel. They love the vegan cacao chips in there with pumpkin seeds as a surprise. 😁 They asked me to make bagels with sesame seeds next time. 😂👍

I know you’ve been busy with your trip and we all will patiently wait for next weekend Debs food creation post when you find time. 😇🙏❤️

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Lucky Max 😁 I bet your parents were very impressed with your delicious offerings 😁

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They said how come I didn’t make more to share with my aunt’s family. 😁 It is my first time making so I guess I will make more for them to share. 😂👍

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Must have tasted as good as they looked 😊

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We enjoy pumpkin and it's cousin butternut squash here as well!

Baby got insulted last week when one of my friends said she is shaped like a pumpkin due to getting too many spoils!

How's Sonya and Lucy doing?

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Hi Catgirl, it’s wonderful to see you here in VFL. 🤗Yes, I love butternut squash as well and we can get it all year round but pumpkin only seasonal or rare to find in the market, gotta settle for canned pumpkin sometimes but that is okay.

Hmmm Baby sounds adorable if she shapes like a pumpkin though. 😻 Baby is great with variety of food when Sonya has stomach issues so I couldn’t give her anything other than her own food. I love little chubby kitty as I can dive into her belly but Sonya couldn’t get to that level. 😻

I hope the weather is better now in the UK so Baby won’t be too stressed out. It is still hot over here esp in September so I keep Sonya and Lucy indoor with plenty of water and all day central air on. 😅

Do you celebrate Moon Festival over there? Hope all is well with you and your family. 🤗

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Pumpkin here in the UK is seasonal as well same as with turnips.

Butternut squash and sweet potatoes we can get any time.

Its still warm here in the UK but not ridiculous like it was back in July!

Baby has had a variety of foods since she was a kitten so is used to lots of things.

Today was a great walk and chat with my sister in law when I said about how I had been upset over being accused of being bitter and she says no I'm not bitter and that was said to me to shut me up when I said about being angry over being treated badly by family and got shut down and called bitter and I was ever so upset!

Well OK perhaps I was bitter when I was bringing things out into the open but with good reason as parents are supposed to support and help their children not try to harm them and destroy them and yes maybe I was bitter over that but in no way am I bitter all the time though.

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Awe Baby is sooo adorable, very healthy and happy kitty. 😽😻

I’m sorry you are going through so much stress with family. A healthy distance sometimes can do wonder and then revisit the issue when everyone is at their state of calmness is better I think.

You are very lovely person and I hope overtime, things will turn around for better.🤗

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This week I have some nice things to look forward to like going to the lido on Wednesday and going into town tomorrow with my sister in law to walk round the shops and for friendship.

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That sounds wonderful, nice time spending in the water and around the shops mingling will be great. Nice plan. 😁👍

[ZazenRiver345]

I would definitely love to try that bagel as it's been a few years since I've had one. It looks so soft inside just like you mentioned 😁. Enjoy your bagel with your cashew cheese this morning and have a great day🤗🙏.

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Thank you Zazen for saying that! 🤗🙏Oh my bagels too? So many things you haven’t had in years 😅, maybe time to get in the kitchen now. 😁

Enjoy your Sunday with beautiful nature around you! 😊

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Hey Koko your gluten free bagels are the best, I’m knocked out by them 😁

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They're great aren't they?

I have come here to get some fresh ideas on vegetarian recipes as we decided to cut down on meat due to the whispers over shortages.

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Awe thank you Jerry for saying that, you are too modest as you bake like a gluten-free professional baker! 😁👍Hope you have a wonderful rest of the evening! 😊

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Hey thanks Koko I've a lot to be modest about LOL...😁

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Is that your collie in the pic then?

They're nice dogs are collies like Lassie!

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Years ago there was a lassie dog that lived near us!

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Whispers over shortages of things like meat and milkshakes things that are nice but not essential so what we decided was to do without meat and use this as an opportunity to try out new things say like vegetarian recipes as where there's problems there's opportunities as well if you look for them as we have found cutting back on meat saves us money as well.

Friday myself and my friend went to our local pub and had asked the lady on the counter about what things were actually available so we took those things instead.

The couple on the next table to us had wanted mixed grills and got told they were sorry but they were out of gammon and had given them extra chicken instead and I had said how its frustrating when you are looking forward to something and you can't have it and had said how we had used it as an opportunity to cut down on meat as problems can be turned into opportunities.

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You know Catgirl, I am currently watching this show called Million Pound Menu on Netflix and they are UK restaurants chain investors looking for great concept and they mentioned that 1/3 of people in the UK reduced meat and they are promoting many Vegan restaurants as it’s a trend over there now. Hope you find some great restaurants there and enjoy! 🤗

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Where I used to work there was a vegan restaurant over the road called the Moo's and one day I received an invite off one of my friends there to meet up there along with the vegetarian welsh teacher one lunchtime and I had decided to give it a go as it was a nice change.

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That sounds wonderful. It’s nice to enjoy variety of dishes always and Vegan dishes are cooked with love and freshness of nature, can’t ask for more. 🤗

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Thank you MelonCollie, it’s my first try making this. Hope you have a peaceful Sunday so far! 😊🙏🌺

[Byron2020]

Again you have delivered and I'm running out of words that describe your cooking talents , are you sure you haven't been on Master Chef or the great British bake off . I bet your bagels tasted lovely 😋 well done KoKo 👍 x

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Awe thank you Byron2020 for saying that, you are so kind! 🤗🙏

I love cooking/baking and feel very joyful when i spend time in the kitchen. I do love watching British baking show on Netflix, it’s amazing giving me many inspiration. 😁

Hope you have a good rest of the night! 😊