Bialy Recipe
The neglected bialy is getting it’s heyday recently with appearances in places outside their usual NYC residence like San Francisco’s Wise Son’s Deli as well as showing up on articles about new restaurant food trends. But a bialy isn’t just a bagel with some onions thrown into it, it’s a delicious creature all it’s own. With a center depression (but no hole) and a direct bake in the oven (without boiling them first like you do with bagels), bialys make a great savory breakfast or pretty much any time of day snack option. Traditionalists will probably quibble with the poppy and sesame seeds and be slightly horrified that I add a dash of black pepper as well, but the biggest egregious deviation from tradition in my recipe is probably that I use a little white whole wheat in the mix. Feel free to use regular all purpose instead but I wanted to give my bialy a little more bite of flavor, thus the whole wheat.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 6 of 8 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Sesame | 1 tbsp (14g) | 120 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Poppy Seed | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (70 g) all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup room temperature water
- 1/4 teaspoon active yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon active yeast
- 1/4 cup warm water
- 3 cups (480 g) bread flour
- 2 cups (300 g) white whole wheat flour
- 2 cups room temperature water
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large onion
- kosher salt
- 2 -3 tablespoons poppy seeds
- 2- 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
- fresh ground pepper
- Cornmeal