What Is A Poppy Seed Bagel? — Gotham Bagels (2024)

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What Is A Poppy Seed Bagel? — Gotham Bagels? ›

Poppy-flavored bagels

McCormick Culinary Whole Dutch Poppy Seed has a pleasant, crunchy, nutlike flavor and aroma. Specially made for chefs to inspire extraordinary menus and deliver consistent recipes. Widely used to season breads, rolls, bagels and crackers, and also as salad topping and salad dressing.

An everything bagel is made with spices such as poppy seeds, sesame seeds, garlic, onion, salt, and pepper. Underneath an everything bagel's seasoning is a plain bagel, so the food gets the majority of its flavoring from the spice mix.

They have a faint nutlike aroma and a mild, nutty taste especially popular in breads and other baked goods.

If you've never seen poppy seeds, you may wonder what these tiny dark specks are doing all over your bagel. Poppy seeds are often used in baked goods, giving the product a slight nutty, sweet/spicy taste, a crunchy texture, and a unique decoration.

Bialys (without holes) and bagels (with) A chewy yeast roll bearing similarity to the bagel, the bialy has a diameter of up to 15 centimetres (6 in). Unlike a bagel, which is boiled before baking, a bialy is simply baked, and instead of a hole in the middle it has a depression.

"Bagels made of whole wheat or whole-grain flour will have a bit more protein and fiber than those made of refined flour. Those topped with seeds may offer more protein, healthy fat and fiber too," says Maxine Yeung, RD, owner of The Wellness Whisk in California's Bay Area.

Poppy seeds come from the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, which originates in Eurasia. These tiny dried blue- or black-colored seeds are widely used in Central European baking.

Bagels can be healthy if made with whole grains, contain minimal fat and sugar, and are an appropriate portion size for your health goals. For a healthier choice, look for whole wheat, whole grain, or rye bagels. While bagels with cream cheese are delicious, traditional cream cheese is not necessarily healthy.

Are poppy seeds good for you? ›

Poppy seeds also provide the body with 2% to 4% of the daily needs for iron in one teaspoon. Iron is important for carrying oxygen throughout the body and helps us have a healthy immune system.

First, bagels can have more calories and carbs than bread because the serving size tends to be higher. However, this does not inherently make bagels less healthy, it just means when you eat a bagel you need to pay attention to how much you're eating and what you're pairing with it.

Anise has a licoricelike flavor with piney undertones that pairs well with spring foods such as beets, carrots, fish and shellfish, melons, oranges, and pork. Poppy seeds have a sweet aroma and nutty flavor and are used in baked goods, citrus, salads and salad dressings, and stir-fries.

Poppy seeds are commonly used as toppings for bread, rolls, cookies, cakes and other baked goods. They are also used in traditional foods like “Hamantashen” a jewish pastry, “ kolache” a traditional czech sweet bun and several German yeast breads.

Poppy Seeds: These itty-bitty seeds add a mild nutty flavor and slight crunch to baked goods. I love them on bagels, too!

Black Poppy Seeds

Many consider the black poppy seed flavor and aroma to also be quite strong, and it is often compared to pepper. It has a spicier smell and taste. Black poppy seeds are preferred to blue or white poppy seeds in some traditional Eastern European and Jewish dishes.