Submitted by: Heidi Kleyn (Vicksburg, MI)
Image (c) Heidi Kleyn (Vicksburg, MI)
“Jazz up snack time with these chewy, Amish Friendship Bread pretzels.”
Prep Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 18 to 20 minutes
Servings: 12
Yield: 12 pretzels
Ingredients
1 cup Amish Friendship Bread Starter
3/4 cup lukewarm water
2 teaspoons yeast
3 cups flour
1/4 cup instant non-fat dry milk
1 tablespoon oil
2 teaspoons salt
Kosher salt to top pretzels
Directions
- 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 for a pretzel (see photos below.) 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!
Kitchen Notes
From Heidi Kleyn: “Make a tasty dipping sauce with half mustard and half mayo. These are really great if you eat them warm. Instead of the kosher salt, try topping with sesame seeds, poppy seeds, dried onion or dried garlic. Add all toppings for an “everything” pretzel. Instead of twisting into pretzel shape leave long like a bread stick.”
Images
L to R: shape dough like a U and cross (c) Heidi Kleyn; pull and press down dough (c) Heidi Kleyn
I love ideas for this starter. I have come up with many different flavors of bread, but have never branched off to any other item. my boys love soft pretzels so this is something I will definitely try! Thank You!
Great, Beth! Let us know how it turns out for you! Snap some pictures!
I made these today and they are quite delicious! Hubby loved them as well. Igot 18 of them and sprinkled some w/ coarse salt, but it was too much. Do you think you could turn these into bagels?
Wow! So good! Who knew? I have never tried making pretzels before and these were super easy and delicious.
Wow, this paragraph is nice, my sister is analyzing such things, therefore I am going to tell her.
Can you freeze the pretzels after cooking?
Hi Kim,
This was a reader submitted recipe and we have not experimented with freezing the pretzels. Our kitchen knowledge leads up to believe that yes, they can be frozen. Try it out and let us know your results!
Happy Baking,
Susan
FBKitchen Assistant
Love the options that you can have with the AFB. I too have tried many flavors and variations but would love to try this one. Thanks for the suggestion.
These are definitely going in my ‘saved recipes’ folder!!