Soft Pretzels
- Ready In:
- 1hr 37mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 1 (1/4 ounce) package yeast
- 1 1⁄2 cups water (room temperature)
- 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (or melted butter)
- 4 cups flour
- 1 egg, beaten
- coarse salt (such as sea salt or kosher salt, to sprinkle as topping)
directions
- Add water and yeast to large bowl and let set 10 minutes.
- Add salt, sugar, and oil.
- Mix in flour until a dough forms.
- Knead the dough for 5 minutes and set aside for 1 hour to rise.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- Cut dough into small pieces (I found a food scissors worked well.) Roll each piece into thin ropes (about pencil thickness or slightly larger)and shape into pretzels.
- Cover a cookie sheet with foil and sprinkle lightly with flour (about 1 tbsp).
- Place pretzels on floured cookie sheet and brush with beaten egg. Sprinkle coarse salt (or other topping) on top of pretzel.
- Bake in preheated oven 12 minutes.
- Eat dipped in yogurt, ranch dressing or other dip.
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