Directions
- 1Add 4 to 4.5 cups of bread flour into a large bowl.
- 2Add 2 and 1/4 teaspoons or one packet of fast-rising yeast directly into the flour.
- 3Add 2 tablespoons of light brown sugar.
- 4Add 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of salt.
- 5Whisk all dry ingredients to ensure they are spread throughout the flour.
- 6Pour 1/4 cup of oil into the mixture.
- 7Add 1 and 1/2 cups of warm water.
- 8Start stirring the mixture in the bowl with a spatula.
- 9Turn the mixture out onto a clean surface once it looks like a shaggy dough.
- 10Gather the dough and begin kneading all the dry flour in.
- 11Spray the bowl with oil.
- 12Place the kneaded dough into the oiled bowl.
- 13Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise until it doubles in size for about an hour.
- 14Turn the proofed dough onto a clean surface.
- 15Preheat your oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 16Cut a side off the dough using a pizza cutter.
- 17Roll out the dough portion into a long rope.
- 18Form the pretzel by setting the middle of the rope down, crossing the ends, crossing them again, and sticking the ends down.
- 19Get a shallow dish and pour some water in.
- 20Sprinkle in about 1/4 cup of baking soda into the water.
- 21Dip both sides of the pretzel into the baking soda water.
- 22Place the dipped pretzel onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- 23Brush all your pretzels with an egg wash.
- 24Sprinkle the pretzels with pretzel sea salt or coarse sea salt.
- 25Bake the pretzels in your 450-degree oven for 10 minutes.
Ingredients
- 4 cups bread flour
- 4.5 cups bread flour
- 2.25 teaspoons fast-rising yeast
- 1 packet fast-rising yeast
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons salt
- 0.25 cup oil
- 1.5 cups warm water
- 0.25 cup baking soda
- 1 egg
- pretzel sea salt
- melted butter
Equipment
bowlwhiskspatulapizza cuttershallow dishbaking sheetparchment paperbasting brush
Tips
- Do not add more liquid than specified to the dough.
- Do not punch down the dough after it has risen for a more fluffy and airy pretzel.
- Sprinkle with coarse sea salt from the dollar tree as an alternative to pretzel sea salt.
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