Fat-free Soft Pretzels
- Ready In:
- 28mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
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2 pans
ingredients
- 1⁄8 cup water
- 1 package active dry yeast
- 1 1⁄3 cups water
- 1⁄3 cup brown sugar
- 5 cups flour
- coarse salt or kosher salt
- baking soda
directions
- Dissolve the yeast in the 1/8 c warm water (use a large bowl).
- Stir in the 1 1/3 c warm water and brown sugar.
- Slowly mix in the flour.
- Knead dough (using extra flour for the board and your hands) until it is stretchy and smooth (not sticky).
- Grease two large cookie sheets.
- Preheat oven to 475 degrees F.
- Fill a 2-3 quart saucepan half full of water.
- Add 1 tablespoon of baking soda for every cup of water.
- Bring to a boil.
- Talk a golf-ball size piece of dough and roll into a rope as thich as your thumb.
- Bend into a U-shape, cross ends, twist crossed ends making a full turn, then fold the ends back toward the middle of the U.
- Press ends into dough firmly.
- Should be the familiar pretzel shape.
- Other shapes (including candy cane shapes for Christmas) also work.
- Lower pretzel in boiling water for 30 seconds, remove from water (getting rid of any excess water) and place on greased cookie sheet.
- Sprinkle with coarse or kosher salt.
- Repeat until all the dough has been used.
- Bake for 8 minutes or until golden.
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Reviews
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These pretzels were fantastic! But you have to have strong arms to make it. It was really hard to get all of the flower into it. I ended up just putting a little less that 4 cups into it. I dont how you would be able to get 5 cups into it. But the end result was well worth all of the effort. Thanks so much!
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Well, the end result was very good but I had pitfalls along the way. I wonder if the proportions are wrong because I could not get the dough to accept that much flour. I ended up putting it all in my kitchenaid mixer with the dough hook and letting it go for a few minutes. We made a bunch of funny pretzels (I did this with my 2 and 4 year old kids) and they loved watching the pot of water foam everytime I dropped another one in. Next time I will grease the pan better as they stuck. But they had great flavor and it was a fun family activity.
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