I’m really a big fan of warm soft pretzels. There’s just something about a nice warm doughy pretzel combined with crunchy salt. Yum!
There’s not than many places anymore where you can get a soft pretzel though. So when I saw that I could make my own soft pretzels, I was all over that!
Sunday morning was rainy here in Western Pennsylvania so I dubbed it “dough day”. I made two more batches of pizza dough then I made this easy pretzel dough recipe.
The hardest part about this recipe is waiting the 1 hour between making the dough and then making the pretzels. I just was so excited to see if they would turn out well! And well they did!
These pretzels turned out so yummy. And the recipe makes a very large batch of dough, so much so that I froze half of it for another day.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1 packet active dry yeast
- 1/4 cup melted butter (cooled)
- 1 egg yolk (reserve the white)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 5 cups all purpose flour
Directions:
- Dissolve the yeast packet in the warm water. Add the butter, egg yolk, sugar, salt and milk. Mix well. Transfer the mixture to your stand mixer.
- Slowly add flour 1 cup at a time and knead dough for about 5 minutes. Place dough in an oiled bowl, cover with a damp towel and let rest for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 425°. After dough has rested, cut or separate dough into 8 equal sections.
- With each dough portion, roll out a long rope about 2 foot in length and 1 1/2? wide. Cut the dough ropes into one inch pieces and place them on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper.
- Whisk 1 tablespoon of water with the reserved egg white until frothy. Brush egg whites onto each nugget of dough and sprinkle with kosher salt.
- Bake for about 14 – 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Recipe from The Domestic Mama and the Village Cook
great pretzel recipe!! thanks so much sharing!
You're welcome! They were a very tasty treat!