his Easy Homemade Pretzels recipe makes 8 pretzels ( with two bonus pretzel bites) pretzel is Four points each on all Weight Watchers Plans
Course Snack
Servings 8
Ingredients
- 2 cups of Bread Flour
- 3/4 cup of unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tsp of instant rapid rise yeast.
- 1 egg
- pinch of salt (toss the salt in away from the yeast yeast doesn’t like direct contact with salt.
Instructions
- Combine in a stand mixer with dough hook above ingredients.
- Mix on low until dough forms then keep on mixing for another 4-7 minutes (kneading), I like to help the mixer along by removing the dough from the hook, putting it back into the bowl a few times during the kneading process. Do this until the inside of the bowl is clean of loose flour, you should end up with a nice tacky, not sticky ball of dough.
- Remove the dough ball, spray the inside of mixing bowl with Pam, return dough to bowl, flip over (so it’s oiled on both sides) cover and keep in a warm area for 1 1/2-2 hrs. to proof.
- Heat oven to 450 degrees and bring 10 cups of water to rolling boil with 2/3 cups of baking soda.
- Turn proofed dough onto oil sprayed surface and divide into 8 equal portions, roll out each portion into a 24” rope, make a U-shape , holding each end, cross them over each other twice and press onto bottom of U to form pretzel, place on parchment lined ,oil sprayed, cookie sheet and repeat with the rest of the dough.
- One at a time place pretzels in the boiling water for 30 seconds then remove and place back on the cookie sheet, repeat with remaining pretzels. Bake 10 minutes, they should be a beautiful dark golden brown, remove from oven and sprinkle with salt.