Soft Pretzels.
You can cook Soft Pretzels using 11 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Soft Pretzels
- Prepare 150 grams of Bread (strong) flour.
- You need 150 grams of Cake flour.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Dry yeast.
- It's 170 ml of Lukewarm water.
- It's 1/2 tsp of Coarse salt.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of Brown sugar.
- Prepare 25 grams of Salted butter (at room temperature).
- Prepare 1 of Vegetable oil (for greasing the bowl).
- It's 1/2 of Beaten egg.
- Prepare 1 of Sea salt, seasonings etc..
- It's 1 of heaping tablespoon Baking soda.
Soft Pretzels step by step
- In a small bowl, mix together the brown sugar, coarse salt and the lukewarm water. Sprinkle in the dry yeast and let it sit for 5-10 minutes..
- In a large bowl, roughly mix the bread flour and the cake flour, add pre-risen yeast from Step 1 and mix until just about combined..
- When lumps start to form, add room temperature butter and knead until it holds together..
- Move the dough to a working table and knead it until smooth about 5-8 minutes (Since it does not stick to your hands, dusting flour is not necessary)..
- Once the dough becomes smooth, make it into a round shape. Place it into a greased bowl, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, then let it rise in a warm area for about 45 minutes..
- Once the size has doubled, punch it down to remove the air. Divide the dough into quarters..
- Using your palm, roll out the dough into a thin line about 40-50 cm long. Twist it to make pretzel shapes..
- Place the dough onto parchment paper. Let it sit for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 200℃ and bring water to a boil in a large saucepan..
- Add baking soda into the boiling water (Be careful as water may splash out), gently drop the Step 8 dough. Boil the dough about 30 seconds on each side..
- Place dough onto a parchment paper lined baking tray. Mix 1/2 tablespoon water with the beaten egg and brush it onto the dough, then sprinkle on sea salt or any other seasoning that you prefer..
- Bake them for 20～25minutes in a 200℃ oven (Be care to adjust the baking time for the type of the oven you have)..
- Bake them until golden brown, and you're done! It is delicious either as it is or with some mustard!.
- These were mini-sized pretzels that each used half the amount of dough (makes 8 of them). I wrapped in some chopped jalapeño pepper and some cheese..
- Melted cheese inside the hot pretzel makes it taste great! Pungently spicy jalapeño goes really well with beer!.