1/4 – 1/2 cup Water if you feel like your dough is a bit dry, start with adding an extra 1/4 cup of water and go from there. The factors of where you live (the climate/altitude plays a big part in most bread recipes)
mxriyum_ Ka’ak Al- Quds (Jerusalem bagels) 🇵🇸🕊️🍉 Fluffy ring shaped bagels w/ a sesame seed crust found all over the streets of Jerusalem 🇵🇸 A famous staple in Palestine, with a long history in Jerusalem 🕊️ it’s served many ways, whether you want to enjoy it with tea, as a sandwich, or use it to dip into zataar & olive oil !! It’s a must try 🫂
made ka’ak al quds today — second attempt at this recipe by reem kassis. i like this recipe a lot. the dough itself is uncomplicated, forgiving, and quick to put together (minimal planning or attention to timing needed!) and comes together beautifully (~10 mins in our kitchenaid 7 pro thing, but i’d imagine it isn’t too bad to knead by hand in a bowl. the dough is soft and not too sticky.) and comes out nicely crispy with a very tender crumb. i’ve found it super easy to shape them by pinching rather than rolling snakes and trying to keep the ends to stay together — just pinch a hole into the center of a dough piece and gently stretch it out from there goatse-style. you can do a little two-finger spin thing which is super fun lol
the only part i’ve had trouble with is the sesame seed stickage… too little water and the seeds stick more to each other than to the dough, but too much and the seeds just slide off. i managed to get slightly better results this time by starting with a scant tablespoon, doing a test coat, then very slowly dribbling more water into the seeds mixture until it was adhering decently enough, but i still can’t seem to get that dense crust i’m after. i wonder if it’d be easier (and maybe a little more ingredient-efficient) to just brush the rings down with very slightly thinned honey/molasses etc. and then dip them into plain seeds. both times i felt like a lot of seeds and honey went to waste afterward :/