The Best Easy Soft Pretzels
These really are the best soft pretzels, ever! Recipe is adapted from the original which can be found from King Arthur Flour.
- Yield: 8 soft pretzels 1x
- Category: Appetizer or Entree
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 1/2 (298g) cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 2 1/4 (7g) tsp instant yeast
- 7/8 to 1 (198g to 227g) cups warm water
- 1 (227g) cup boiling water
- 2 (28g) tbs baking soda
- sprinkle coarse salt
- 1 1/2 (22g) tbs melted butter
Instructions
- Place flour, salt, sugar, yeast, and warm water into your bread machine. Choose the dough setting. Let the dough cycle run.
- Take dough out of machine and place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover, and let rise for 30 minutes.
- Combine the boiling water and baking soda in an 8x8ish pan. Make sure the baking soda is completely dissolved. Set the mixture aside to cool.
- Preheat oven to 475 and grease a baking pan.
- Lightly grease a work surface and place dough on it. Divide into 8 equal pieces. Let the pieces rest for 5 minutes.
- Roll each piece of dough into a rope about 2 ft long, and twist each rope into a pretzel shape. Place pretzels 4ish at a time into the pan of baking soda and water, spooning the water over the top for 2 minutes.
- Place pretzels on the baking dish.
- Sprinkle with salt.
- Rest for 10 minutes.
- Bake for 8-9 minutes until golden brown.
- Take pretzels out of the oven and brush with melted butter.
- Enjoy warm!