Bake Your Own Soft Pretzels with This Foolproof Recipe | Samantha Seneviratne | NYT Cooking
Samantha Seneviratne is here to show us how to make her recipe for soft pretzels. They’re chewy, they’re soft, they’ve got a little bit of crunch and they’re covered in salt. Auntie Anne's could never!
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Homemade Soft Pretzels!! How to Make Pretzels Recipe
Learn how to make the best homemade soft pretzels right at home!! These are soft, salty, buttery and melt in your mouth. Absolute deliciousness! If you've never made homemade pretzels before, give them a try. They are so easy to make, there's no reason not to!
What you'll need:
1 cup milk
2 Tbsp white sugar
2 tsp instant dry yeast
2 Tbsp butter, softened
2 1/4 cups all-purpose (plain) flour plus more for kneading
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup water
1 1/2 Tbsp baking soda
2 Tbsp butter, melted
1 Tbsp pretzel salt or coarse grind salt
Heat milk to 100-110*F and pour into a large bowl. Add in sugar and sprinkle yeast on top. Let 'proof' for 10 minutes. Add in salt, softened butter and half the flour. Stir to make a batter. It does not need to be smooth, lumps are fine. Add in remaining flour and mix. Once it starts to come together, knead in the bowl for a minute or two to get everything into the ball of dough. Dust a working surface with flour and turn down out and knead an additional 2-3 minutes. Don't add too much flour to your bench. The dough will be and is supposed to be soft. Put dough into an oiled bowl, cover and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled.
Meanwhile, heat water to a near boil, add to a small bowl and whisk in baking soda to dissolve. Set aside.
Once dough has doubled in size, turn out onto a work surface and cut into 6 equal pieces. Roll each into a 30 long rope. Shape into the classic pretzel shape and submerge into the baking soda solution for 10-15 seconds. Transfer to a greased or silicone baking mat lined cookie sheet. Sprinkle with pretzel salt and finish remaining dough.
Bake in a preheated 450*F oven for 9-11 minutes until golden brown. Remove from oven and brush with remaining melted butter. Serve immediately or store in an airtight container for later. Serve with cheese sauce or mustard. Makes 6 soft pretzels. Enjoy!!
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Learn how to make soft pretzels from scratch!
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Pretzels recipe in grams :
- 280 gr All Purpose Flour
- 30 gr Sugar
- 7 gr Dry Yeast
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 100 gr Warm Water
- 50 gr Warm Milk
- 20 gr Butter
Let the dough rise for about 1-2 hours. It just needs to double in size.
- Butter for when they come out of the oven.
Water Bath:
- Around 1 liter and a half of Hot Water ( You don't have to weigh it)
- 60 gr Baking Soda
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Soft Pretzel recipe in cups:
- 2 cups All Purpose Flour
- 2 1/2 tbsp Sugar
- 1 packet Dry Yeast
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup Warm Water
- 3 tbsp Warm Milk
- 1 1/2 tbsp Butter
- Butter for when they come out of the oven.
Let the dough rise for about 1-2 hours. It just needs to double in size.
Water Bath:
- About 5-6 cups Hot Water( You don't have to weigh it)
- 1/3 cups Baking Soda
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German-style soft pretzels — no lye
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***RECIPE, MAKES FOUR LARGE PRETZELS***
1 cup (237mL) water
bread flour (about three cups, 360g, but it really depends so just go by feel)
1 tablespoon melted butter (or oil)
1 teaspoon dry yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt (for the dough)
coarse salt for topping
baking soda to make washing soda (I use whole box and save the rest for next time)
To convert baking soda (sodium hydrogencarbonate) to washing soda (sodium carbonate), pour the baking soda in a pot and turn the heat on high. Stir the pan frequently to make sure all the powder heats evenly. Eventually you'll start to see little plumes of gas escaping, especially when you stir the powder. (It'll look most dramatic if you give the pan a vigorous shake). This is water and carbon dioxide leaving the pan. Keep cooking until you no longer see any signs of gas when you agitate the powder — it takes me about 15 minutes. If everything went well, the powder should weight a little less than 2/3rds of what it weighed originally. Let cool and keep dry in a sealed nonreactive container — plastic is good. It's mildly caustic, so try not to let it sit on your skin for too long, try not to get it in your eyes or breath a lot of it in, etc.
To make the dough, combine the water, sugar, butter, yeast, salt and as much flour as you can stir in with a spoon. Cover and let sit for 20 minutes (this would be a good time to make your washing soda). After it's sat, it will be much easier to knead in some more four — enough to get a smooth dough ball that's just barely sticky. Cover and let rise until about doubled, 1-2 hours.
Take the risen dough ball out and cut it into quarters. Roll each quarter up into a little log (see video), cover, and let sit for at least 30 min before shaping. To shape, lightly flour your counter, grab a dough log and use flat hands to roll the outer arms of the dough thin while leaving fat belly of the dough intact (again, see video). Roll the rope of dough longer than you think you want it. Grab the ends and make a U shape, twist the ends and then flop them over the belly of the dough (again, see vid). Once shaped, cover and let proof for about 30 min until puffy, or don't. Some Germans prefer to cook them right away for a denser texture.
It's much easier to boil the pretzel dough if it's cold — almost frozen solid. I recommend putting the fully-proofed doughs in the freezer for 20-30 min while you pre-heat the oven (425ºF/220ºC, or a little hotter if you like darker, crispier pretzels) and bring your washing soda bath to a boil.
Get a wide, deep pan of water for the washing soda bath, and a wide, deep bowl of plain water for rinsing the pretzels after the bath. Turn heat on high and dissolve about as much of your washing soda into the water in the pan as possible, but be conservative — it's better to have a solution that's not fully saturated vs a solution with big washing soda particles floating around in it (they could stick to the pretzel and taste bitter).
The water should be clear after a couple minutes of heating and stirring. Anything between a bare simmer and a full boil is fine. (This solution is mildly caustic, but not super dangerous. If you get it on your hands, wash it off, but you're unlikely to get a chemical burn unless you bathe in it.)
When the pretzels are firm, drop them in the hot water and cook for about 15 seconds — I recommend doing this one at a time. Transfer to the bowl of plain water and rinse clean (the solution tastes bitter). Transfer to a baking sheet and top with coarse salt while it's still wet (the water will hold the salt in place). Repeat with the other pretzels, and if you want you can score the fat belly of each with a knife to let it puff up more in the oven.
Bake until very brown, about 15 minutes. To make the pretzels shinier, you can spray them or paint them with water once or twice during the bake. Easier, though less effective, is to do the same right after they finish baking but are still hot.
Buttery Soft Mall Pretzels Recipe
How to make soft and buttered pretzels just like at the mall.
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Ingredients:
6.25 oz unbleached flour
¼ ts fine salt
½ ts sugar
1½ ts yeast
½ c warm water
¼ c warm water
½ tb baking soda
Melted butter for brushing
Salt to sprinkle
Instructions:
Stir the flour, salt, and sugar.
Stir in the yeast and ½ c water that's at 110 degrees. It's important not to kill your yeast with water that is too hot.
If mixing by hand, knead for at least 10 minutes or until very smooth. If using a stand mixer, mix for 4-6 minutes until very smooth. The dough is ready when it is no longer as sticky and holds its shape.
Lightly grease a large bowl, place the dough in, cover, and allow to rise for 30 minutes.
When it's doubled in size, check the texture of the dough. If it's still a bit sticky, use a light dusting of flour and knead until smooth. Don't use too much flour. Otherwise, cut into portions and roll out long ropes. The length you desire is up to you. Shape into a pretzel.
In a shallow bowl, microwave the ¼ c water and baking soda for 40 seconds. Dip each pretzel into this water, blot off any excess, salt {for salted ones}, then lay on lightly greased baking sheets. Allow them to rest for 10-15 minutes before baking.
Bake at 450 for 7-9 minutes.
Butter when hot.
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The Best Homemade Soft Pretzels
Making these homemade pretzels is one of the easiest baking projects I think I've ever undertaken. They can be made super fast since there isn't much rise time needed, and they don't require a ton of skill to make. Seems like a pretty good reason to start having more warm, soft, and fresh baked pretzels around your home.
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