Get Into Pretzel Heaven! Garlicy & Seedy Whole Wheat Pretzel Bites
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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One of my fondest memories was traveling via educate throughout Europe. Even though the bakeries that were inwards the educate station were chains, they notwithstanding were 10 times amend than the bakeries I could honour inwards Vancouver. I'd ever alternative upward a croissant in addition to something flakey in addition to sweet. But on the terminal leg of my journeying from Berlin to Frankfurt, I was caught unprepared - at that spot wasn't fourth dimension to halt off at a bakery earlier boarding our train. Luckily, European trains are real civilized in addition to nosotros were able to alternative upward a beer in addition to a pretzel from a vendor that wandered downwards the educate cars. The pretzel was perfect - dense in addition to chewy in addition to salty in addition to a perfect accompaniment to the beer. I was inwards pretzel heaven!
I've ever been curious to bake upward a batch of pretzels myself in addition to I've had this Alton Brown recipe bookmarked for years. Finally I worked upward the nervus to give it a go. I used one-half whole wheat flour inwards improver to regular all-purpose in addition to I intend it worked actually well. I liked the buttery gustation inwards the dough, only if you're vegan, this should run every bit good amongst olive oil. But when it came downwards to shaping the pretzels, I lost my nerve. So instead of dividing the dough into 8 sections in addition to making long snakes in addition to twisting them upward the traditional way, I took the slow agency out in addition to made pretzel bites. Don't worry, you lot notwithstanding larn to brand dough snakes! I gauge I'm non the exclusively 1 queasy amongst knots since 1 await over at Tastespotting reveals a bunch of pretzel balls (snicker!). I acknowledge to beingness quite happy amongst the "bites" road since I made these for a political party in addition to it made for the perfect bite-sized snack. And hence slow for dipping into dijon mustard too!
I should elevate that these pretzels are non the traditional dense pretzels that I longed for - the ones institute on High German trains or similar the ones available at the Swiss Bakery hither inwards Vancouver. Though they are shiny in addition to brownish in addition to chewy on the outside, the insides are definitely soft in addition to bready. Not that it's a bad affair at all, only if you lot are looking for tradition, await elsewhere. These were easily gobbled upward in addition to delicious notwithstanding warm from the oven. Also, authorities annotation that this recipe makes a ton of pretzels. If you lot are having a guests, brand the recipe as is, otherwise, cutting the recipe inwards half.
Garlicy & Seedy Whole Wheat Pretzel Bites
(recipe adapted from Alton Brown)
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 tablespoon honey
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 pkg active dry out yeast
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups whole wheat flour
iv tablespoons melted butter (or olive oil)
10 cups water
2/3 loving cup baking soda
1 large yolk beaten amongst 1 tablespoon water
1 tablespoon coarse salt
1 tablespoon white sesame seeds
1 teaspoon dark sesame seeds
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
Combine water, beloved in addition to kosher tabular array salt inwards a large bowl of your stand upward mixer. Sprinkle the yeast on top in addition to permit sit down five minutes until it foams up. Add inwards the flour in addition to the butter in addition to work the dough claw attachment to mix on depression speed until combined. Up the speed to medium in addition to knead until the dough is smoothen in addition to pulls away from the sides of the bowl, nearly five minutes. Remove the dough, build clean the bowl in addition to fossil oil it upward amongst a flake of vegetable oil. Place the dough dorsum within the bowl in addition to encompass it amongst plastic wrap. Let it sit down inwards a warm identify for nearly an threescore minutes until it has doubled inwards size.
Preheat oven to 450F in addition to occupation 2 sail pans amongst parchment paper. Brush lightly amongst vegetable fossil oil in addition to laid aside.
In a large pot, select the 10 cups of H2O along amongst the baking soda in addition to select to a rolling boil.
In a pocket-size bowl, combine the salt, sesame seeds in addition to garlic powder.
Meanwhile, carve upward the dough into iv sections (like cutting a pie) in addition to curlicue out the dough using your hands into a long snake. Cut the dough into 1 inch sections. Repeat amongst the remaining dough. Lightly curlicue each department into balls.
Drop the pretzel bites 1 at a fourth dimension into the boiling H2O for nearly thirty seconds. Remove amongst a slotted spoon in addition to identify onto the prepared sail pans. Brush each ball amongst the yolk & H2O mixture in addition to hence sprinkle amongst the salty seed mixture. Bake for 12 - fourteen minutes or until the pretzel bites accept on a nighttime brownish colour. Cool on a wire rack for five minutes earlier serving. Makes nearly threescore bites.
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Vancouverite, foodie, crafty, freelance designer, Jeannette Ordas from the pop nutrient blog, Everybody Likes Sandwiches joins us every Midweek enticing us amongst her hearty in addition to unproblematic recipes!