Wednesday, April 6, 2011

My Kick Ass Pretzel Recipe


   Today there wasn't any food in my house and I was really hungry so I decided to stop being lazy and make some pretzels. I'm not much of a cook but these are really easy to make and I figured I'd share the recipe with everybody on my blog. So here it is.

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups warm water
4 teaspoons active dry yeast
3 1/2 - 4 1/2 cups of white flour
1/2 cup of sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
a little bit of vegetable oil

Toppings:

butter
salt or cinnamon sugar

Makes 8-12 pretzels

  1. Dissolve yeast into the warm water. Let it sit for 10 minutes.
  2. Put about 3 cups of flour into a mixing bowl with the sugar and salt. 
  3. Slowly pour in the yeast solution into the bowl so that it is absorbed. Add more flour as needed. Mix until a ball of dough is formed.
  4. Coat the ball of dough with a little bit of vegetable oil then place the dough in a Ziploc back or a bowl. Let it rise for about 50 minutes.
  5. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit (232 degrees Celsius) 
  6. Divide the dough into 8 - 12 pieces and form into a pretzel shape(it can be any shape you want but you don't want them too thin). Place them on an oiled cooking sheet and bake for 8 minutes.
  7. Let them cool off a little bit, spread some melted butter on them, add salt/cinnamon sugar and enjoy.
 Give this recipe a try and let me know how your pretzels came out.

4 comments:

  1. I've never really liked pretzels tbh. I don't know why. Just the taste and texture and everything... uck.

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  2. Pretzels go great with a nice cold beer. I guess being German I have a certain disposition to like these things, huh?

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