Pretzel Bites
Pretzel Bites

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, pretzel bites. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pretzel Bites is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Pretzel Bites is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pretzel bites using 19 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pretzel Bites:
  1. Make ready Pretzel ingredients
  2. Make ready 1 1/2 Cups Warm Water
  3. Make ready 1 Packet Yeast (2 1/2 tsp)
  4. Take 1 Tsp Salt
  5. Take 1 Tbsp Brown Sugar
  6. Make ready 1 Tbsp Shortening (softened)
  7. Get 1 Tsp Butter flavoring (optional)
  8. Make ready 5 Cups Flour, General Purpose
  9. Get Soda bath
  10. Take 9 Cups Water
  11. Get 1/2 Cup Baking Soda
  12. Take Prebake
  13. Get 1 Egg White (Large Egg)
  14. Prepare Coarse Sea Salt
  15. Take Other things
  16. Make ready sheet Cookie
  17. Take Parchment paper
  18. Make ready bowls Several
  19. Prepare spoon Slotted
Instructions to make Pretzel Bites:
  1. Gather all the ingredients. Prep work is key to making this go smoothly.
  2. In a bowl, whisk together warm water and yeast. Let sit for a minute or so.
  3. Whisk in the salt, brown sugar, shortening, and butter flavoring (if desired.) Whisk until well blended. NOTE: while trying for an emulsion, it is perfectly fine to have broken up bits of shortening in the bowl.
  4. Using wooden spoon, or dough hook, gradually add flour 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough is not the consistency of paste, and has a slight spring to it.
  5. Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface, and knead for three minutes.
  6. Lightly cover with cloth, and let rise 10 minutes.
  7. While dough is rising, prepare Soda bath on stove top and bring to a boil. Preheat oven to 400F.
  8. Once dough has risen, deflate and flatten it slightly. Cut into long strips. A pizza cutter works well at this point.
  9. Cut the long strips into smaller squares.
  10. Roll each square into a ball and set aside. Repeat until dough is used up.
  11. In batches of four or five, place dough balls into soda bath for around 30-45 seconds. Lift out with slotted spoon, drain, and set on parchment lined cookie sheet.
  12. Repeat step 11 until all dough balls are done.
  13. Wash each dough ball with egg white, and sprinkle generously with coarse sea salt.
  14. Bake for approximately 17 - 19 minutes, until deep golden brown with a hard shell crust.
  15. Remove. Cool. Enjoy!

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