Super easy to make these at home!
I’ve made pretzels before – Soft pretzels, pretzel buns, but when I was on Pinterest the other day, I saw these gorgeous pretzels by JoCooks.com that were twisted together and they just looked so good I had to make them asap!
My daughter was under the weather this weekend, so I stayed home pretty much all weekend to be with her. While she was all bundled up watching TV, I snuck away and started to make these. It takes like 5 minutes to mix the ingredients together – wait an hour for them to rise and they bake for 10-15 minutes. I thought about doubling the recipe when making these, but decided to wait to see how they turned out first. Since these make 8 and there is 5 in our family, we all devoured 1 each – leaving on 3 left. After a while I came back into the kitchen and 2 more were gone, leaving 1 lonely pretzel left. So I ended up making another batch after dinner tonight!
Thanks JO – for a great recipe!
Print Homemade PretzelsIngredients
- 2½ cups all purpose flour
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
- 1 cup warm water
- ½ cup warm water (for pretzel dipping)
- 1 tbsp baking soda
- coarse sea salt, for sprinkling
- poppy seeds (optional)
- *I didn't have poppy seeds or sea salt, so I used a garlic/herb seasoning to mine
Instructions
- In a medium size bowl, mix 1 cup of water with the yeast and sugar. Let it sit and rest for about 10 minutes until yeast dissolves and it becomes foamy.
- In the bowl of your mixer, mix the flour and salt together. Add the yeast mixture to it and using the
- hook attachment, mix until the dough is soft but no longer sticky. Add additional flour if needed. This takes about 3 minutes.
- Put the dough in an oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let the dough rest for about an hour or until it doubles in size.
- Preheat oven to 450° F. Prepare a cookie sheet with parchment paper.*
- In a medium bowl add ½ cup warm water and 1 tbsp baking soda and microwave it for 1 minute. Stir until all the baking soda is dissolved in the water.
- Cut the dough into 8 pieces. Roll each piece into a long 2 foot rope. Fold the rope in two and
- twist it, then bring the ends together and pinch them to connect the rope. This dough is really great to work with, there is no need to flour the counter you are rolling the dough on.
- Dip the pretzel in the baking soda water on both side for few seconds and place on the cookie sheet and repeat with remaining pieces.
- Sprinkle with coarse sea salt and/or poppy seeds (or any other spices you like!). Let the pretzels rest for 10 minutes.
- Bake pretzels for 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
- *I didn't have parchment paper, so I sprinkled corn meal on my cookie sheet and that prevented them from sticking to the cookie sheet after baking.
And the calories aren’t that bad either! For each pretzel:
These are great dipped in your favorite mustard, we had a really flavorful stone ground mustard that tasted amazing with the pretzels. I also think a marinara would be good or maybe a cheese sauce too!
Let me know if you make these and tell me what you think!
