Amish Friendship Bread Soft Pretzels
The perfect game day snack! Use your one cup of Amish Friendship Bread starter to make these soft and chewy pretzels.
Servings: 12 pretzels
Ingredients
- 1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
- ¾ cup water (lukewarm)
- 2 teaspoons yeast
- 3 cups flour
- ¼ cup instant non-fat dry milk
- 1 teaspoon oil
- 2 teaspoons salt
- ⅓ cup Kosher salt (to top pretzels)
Instructions
- In a stand mixer bowl with dough hook, add starter, water and yeast. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Add rest of ingredients into mixer bowl and mix until dough pulls away from the sides and a ball forms.
- Grease a bowl, put in ball of dough and cover with plastic wrap.
- Let dough rest and rise for 1 hour. It won't rise very much.
- Lightly oil work surface and place dough.
- Divide dough into 12 equal pieces.
- Roll out each piece to about 20 inches. Use fingers to roll from inside to outside.
- Take dough and make a U-shape and then cross, bringing it down to form a pretzel. Press dough together so it stays together.
- Get 8 to 10 cups of water and 1 teaspoon of baking soda simmering on the stove top.
- Place one pretzel at a time in the simmering water for 1 minute.
- Remove with slotted spoon.
- Place pretzels, spaced out on a greased pan and sprinkle with kosher salt.
- Preheat oven to 400° F (200° C).
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, turning and switching the pretzels once during baking.
- Remove to cooling rack. Bottom of pretzels will be harder and chewier.
- ENJOY!