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Pizza Dough Pretzels
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Chef John
"When you suddenly get a craving for homemade soft pretzels and you're not at the mall, you won't need to wait for dough to rise if you use store-bought pizza dough! Serve, of course, with mustard."
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Ingredients
47 m servings 221Original recipe yields 6 servings
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Directions
{{model.addEditText}} Print- Lightly flour a work surface. Place dough on flour and sprinkle more on top. Begin to knead dough, kneading about 2 tablespoons flour into dough until it is soft and supple but not too sticky, 5 to 10 minutes. Cover with a large bowl and allow dough to rest and come to room temperature, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and sprinkle lightly with cornmeal.
- Place water in a deep skillet. Whisk in baking soda to create an alkaline bath. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat. Adjust heat to keep water at a low simmer while you shape the dough.
- Dust dough with a sprinkling of flour as needed so that dough does not stick to work surface. Flatten slightly and divide into 6 equal pieces. Shape each piece into a round dough ball.
- Shape each dough ball into a disk, thinner in the middle, thicker around the edges. Poke a hole in the center. Gently keep pulling and stretching until you've achieved a round pretzel shape that's not too thick.
- Transfer pretzels (in batches if necessary) to simmering alkaline bath. Boil about 30 seconds per side. Transfer to prepared sheet with slotted spoon. Immediately sprinkle with coarse salt while pretzels are still wet and sticky. Let rest 5 to 10 minutes before baking.
- Place on center rack in preheated oven until beautifully browned, and stretch marks have formed, about 20 minutes. Exact times will depend on the specific size and shape of your pretzel.
- Transfer to a rack to cool a bit.
Footnotes
- Chef's Note:
- When you're shaping the dough into rings, be sure to stretch them out, so your pretzels are not too thick. If you make them too fat, they become too bready. Larger, thinner dough rings will give you a chewier pretzel, closer to the ones you get at the mall.
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10/12/2016
These pretzels are great. I like to make pizza dough into pretzel dogs. Put the pizza dough on floured board (wood or cookie sheet) and slice the dough so you get long, 1"-2" pieces of dough....
9/4/2017
I just want to add that the amount of time it boils in the baking soda water is very important. If it stays in the baking soda water too long, the flavor is very strong. Mine were inedible beca...
4/7/2018
This is now a go to treat at our house. I’ve made it with store bought and homemade dough...although I have found that fresh dough is harder to work with. I often let it sit in the fridge for a ...
12/3/2016
These were easy and turned out really well. Next time I'll let the dough warm up a little more before I try to shape it. But overall a quick, simple recipe that yielded yummy results.