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Home made Soft Pretzels

Soft Pretzels

Easy to make, delicious, and fun pretzel recipe adapted from Alton Brown's Good Eats.
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Prep Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings: 8
Course: Snack
Cuisine: german
Ingredients Instructions

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 cup warm water
  • 1 Tbsp sugar
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1 envelope active dry yeast
  • 22 ounces all-purpose flour (about 4 1/2 cups, but I used more as needed until dough was right consistency)
  • 2 ounces unsalted butter melted
  • vegetable oil for bowl and pan
  • 10 cups water
  • 2/3 cup baking soda
  • 1 egg yolk whisked with splash of water (for egg wash)
  • pretzel salt

Instructions
 

  1. In a stand mixer, combine the warm water, sugar, salt. Sprinkle the yeast on top, wait 5 minutes to let yeast bloom (should start to foam.)
  2. Add flour and butter and mix on low speed with dough hook, then up speed to medium for 5 minutes. Dough should be sticking on the hook and pulled away from the sides.
  3. Remove the dough from the bowl. Oil the bowl. Return the dough to the bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let dough rest for an hour to rise (double its size) in a warm place.
  4. Heat oven to 450F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and lightly brush the paper with oil.
  5. Bring the 10 cups of water and the baking soda to a boil in a large wide and shallow skillet or roasting pan.
  6. Meanwhile, place your dough on an oiled surface. Cut into 8 pieces. Roll out into a rope and shape your pretzels. Place them on your baking sheet.
  7. Drop a pretzel gently into your boiling water. Wait 30 seconds. Pull it out with a wide flat spatula. Place back onto baking sheet. Repeat.
  8. When all pretzels are boiled, brush them with egg and salt them.
  9. Bake in preheated oven for 13 minutes. Cool on a cookie rack. Enjoy!