10 easy to make pretzel recipes that are superdelicious

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It is not known for sure the origin of the pretzel, but whether in Germany, France or Holland, this dough has gained much prominence, being made as sweet or as salty, and is great to complement the afternoon snack. To learn how to make delicious pretzels, check out the 10 recipes below!

1. Pretzel with sugar and cinnamon

Ingredients

• 200 ml warm milk
• 1 sachet of dry biological yeast
• 1 egg
• 4 tablespoons of sugar
• 3 tablespoons room temperature butter
• 3 ½ cups wheat flour
• 1 pinch of salt
• ½ cup warm water
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• 1 yolk to brush
• 2 tablespoons melted butter for brushing
• ¼ cup sugar for sprinkling
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder for sprinkling

Directions

1. In a bowl, place the milk and yeast. Mix together and let the yeast act for about 5 minutes;
2. After this period, add the egg, sugar and butter. Stir and gradually add the flour with the pinch of salt;
3. When all is incorporated, mix with the hands and knead until it becomes a smooth dough;
4. Divide the dough into several portions of 80 g, roll each one out and place on a floured baking pan;
5. Cover with a dishcloth and bake in the oven or microwave turned off for 30 minutes or until doubled in size;
6. After the time has elapsed, stretch the dough into a very thin strip, take the two ends and interlace giving a few turns. Fit the ends together and pinch tightly;
7. In a buttered and floured pan, place the pretzels, leaving a space between them;
8. In a bowl, place the warm water and baking soda and brush over the doughs to ensure crispness;
9. Then brush on the yolk and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for about 20 minutes;
10. When removed from the oven and still warm, brush on the melted butter, sprinkling the sugar and cinnamon mixture on top.

2. Pretzel in airfryer

Ingredients

• 10 g dry biological yeast
• ½ cup warm water
• ½ cup warm milk
• 1 egg
• ½ cup room temperature butter
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 4 cups wheat flour
• 1 cup melted butter for brushing
• 1 cup sugar for sprinkling
• 3 tablespoons cinnamon powder for sprinkling
• Hazelnut cream to taste

Directions

1. In a bowl, place the yeast, water and warm milk. Mix with a fouet;
2. Next add the egg, butter, sugar, salt, and flour;
3. Begin by mixing with a spoon, but then incorporate the dough with the hands until smooth. When the point is reached, cover the dough and let rest for 20 minutes or until doubled in size;
4. Then flour a surface and take a piece of dough. Make long rolls in the shape of a pretzel: joining the ends with, about, 3 turns, and with the ends of the string for the rounded part;
5. Pinch with your fingers and preheat your airfryer to 200 degrees for 5 minutes;
6. Place the pretzels in the airfryer and program at 200 degrees for another 5 minutes;
7. Once they are ready, brush on the melted butter. Then mix the sugar with the cinnamon and brush over the pretzels;
8. Now it is time for the hazelnut cream: put it in a little bag and cut off the end. Wave it across the surface of your pretzel and you’re done!

3. Pretzel with brown sugar

Ingredients

• 1 ½ tablespoons dry biological yeast
• 5 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 cups warm water
• 4 tablespoons butter at room temperature
• 4 ½ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ liter of hot water
• ⅓ cup baking soda
• Salt to taste for the salted version
• 6 tablespoons melted butter for brushing
• Sugar with cinnamon to taste for the sweet version

Directions

1. In a mixer or bowl, place the yeast, brown sugar, and warm water. Let stand for 5 minutes for the yeast to begin acting;
2. Add the butter, flour, and salt. Knead the dough in the mixer for 10 minutes or by hand;
3. As soon as the dough is smooth, place it in a bowl, cover and let it rest for 1 hour;
4. Then divide the dough into 12 equal parts. In each of them, make the shape of the pretzel;
5. In a saucepan with the hot water, add the bicarbonate and dip one by one, for a few seconds;
6. On half of the doughs, sprinkle salt for the salted version. Bake in a preheated oven at 230 degrees for 7 to 10 minutes;
7. As soon as they are out of the oven, brush on the butter, and, those without salt, brush on the sugar-cinnamon mixture.

4. Pretzel with icing

Ingredients for the dough

• 1 sachet of granulated baking powder
• 4 cups wheat flour
• 1 pinch of salt
• 3 tablespoons room temperature margarine
• 1 egg
• 1 cup warm water
• ½ cup warm water for brushing

Ingredients for the topping options

• Melted margarine to taste
• ½ cup sugar for sprinkling
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon powder for sprinkling
• Industrialized chocolate icing or of your choice
• Granulated chocolate to taste
• Condensed milk to taste
• Shredded coconut to taste

How to prepare the dough

1. In a bowl, place the yeast, flour, salt, margarine, egg and warm water;
2. Mix everything together with a spoon and then continue with your hands. Knead the dough until it has a smooth consistency;
3. Set it aside in a bowl, covering with a dishcloth, and wait 30 minutes;
4. After that, make thin strips with the dough and follow the pretzel shape. Place them on a buttered and floured baking pan and let them rest for 15 minutes;
5. Then brush with warm water and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes or until hard.

How to prepare the topping options

1. Then choose the finishing touch of your preference: you can pass in melted butter and sugar with cinnamon;
2. You can pass in chocolate and granulated. The third option is to pass in condensed milk and coconut.

5. Pretzel with Ovomaltine topping

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm water
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 sachet of dry baking powder
• 4 cups wheat flour
• 3 tablespoons butter or margarine at room temperature
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 1 cup warm water
• Melted milk chocolate to taste for topping
• Ovomaltine to taste for sprinkling

Directions

1. In a bowl with the warm water, add the sugar, followed by the yeast. Mix together and leave to act for 5 minutes;
2. After that, take a bowl and put in the flour. In the middle of it, make a hole and put the mixture with the yeast;
3. Add the butter, salt, and egg. Stir by hand and incorporate all the dough until homogeneous;
4. Spread flour over the counter and knead the dough. Place it in a bowl, cover with a dish cloth and wait 30 minutes;
5. After the time has elapsed, turn the dough into thin strips and shape into pretzel shapes. Place them on a baking sheet and let rest for 10 minutes;
6. Then dip each of the pretzels in the warm water. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes;
7. Finally, dip in the melted chocolate and ovomaltine!

6. Vegan pretzel with water

Ingredients

• 350 ml warm water
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 sachet of dry baking powder
• 50 ml oil
• 500 g wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Vegetable milk to taste or 2 tablespoons of cane molasses with 1 teaspoon of water for brushing
• ½ cup sugar for sprinkling
• 1 to 2 tablespoons cinnamon powder for sprinkling

Directions

1. To begin, in a large bowl, place the water, sugar and dry yeast. Mix together and add the oil;
2. In another bowl, place the flour and salt. Transfer this mixture to the other bowl with the yeast;
3. Beat in mixer and knead until very smooth. Place in a greased bowl and let stand for 40 minutes in the oven off;
4. After the time has passed, throw your dough on a countertop with a little flour and cut out about 8 equal pieces;
5. Make little balls in each piece. Open the dough leaving it in a thin shape, make a heart with the ends;
6. Then, cross the ends twice, finishing with the ends down;
7. Transfer to a buttered or greased baking pan;
8. Bake in preheated oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes;
9. When out of the oven, brush with vegetable milk or make the little mix of vegetable milk with milk and pass in sugar with cinnamon!

7. Vegan pretzel with vegetable milk

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm soy milk or other vegetable milk
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 2 tablespoons demerara sugar
• 2 1/4 cup sifted flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 cup water
• 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
• Coconut oil or vegetable oil to taste to brush on
• Cinnamon sugar to taste for sprinkling

Directions

1. In a bowl, place the vegetable milk, the biological yeast and the demerara sugar. Mix and leave to act for 3 minutes;
2. Meanwhile, in another bowl, put the flour,salt, oil and add the mixture with the yeast;
3. Incorporate the ingredients with a spoon. Then spread flour on a workbench and knead the dough;
4. After about 5 minutes of kneading, you will have a homogeneous dough;
5. Transfer to a bowl with a little oil, cover with a damp cloth, and let rise for 1 hour;
6. After the time has passed, place the dough again on the countertop. Cut into strips of about 3 centimetres;
7. Leave it about 70 centimetres long, form a « u » with it, and, taking the ends, cross two or three times, connecting the points at the top;
8. Soak each pretzel in the water with bicarbonate for 10 to 15 seconds;
9. Then place them on a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat. Bake in a preheated oven at 250 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes;
10. When removed from oven, brush on coconut oil and roll in sugar with cinnamon.

8. Vegan pretzel dog

Ingredients

• 1 cup soy milk or other neutral vegetable milk
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons dry biological yeast
• 2 tablespoons lightly melted vegan butter
• 2 ¼ cups wheat flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 8 vegan sausages
• 1 cup hot water
• 1 ½ tablespoons baking soda
• 1 tablespoon fleur de sel or coarse salt
• 2 tablespoons melted vegetable butter for brushing
• Vegan mustard or dehydrated onion, garlic and parsley to taste

Directions

1. In a bowl, place the soy milk, sugar and yeast. Leave it to act for 10 minutes;
2. Then put in the vegetable butter and add half the flour, then the other half always stirring;
3. Move to the workbench and knead the dough for 2 minutes. Put a little vegetable oil in a bowl and let the dough rest for 1 hour;
4. Cut the dough into eight parts, open leaving it quite long. Press and roll each dough into the sausage;
5. Now, in a bowl, put the water and bicarbonate. Dip each of the pretzels and sprinkle fleur de sel before putting them in the oven;
6. Bake in the preheated oven at 220 degrees for 10 to 17 minutes. Brush the melted butter on top as soon as it comes out of the oven and finish with the mustard or dehydrated spice mix.

9. Gluten Free Pretzel

Ingredients

• 1 cup warm water
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 ½ tablespoons dry biological yeast
• 2 cups rice flour
• 2 cups powdered milk
• 1 cup potato starch
• 1 cup sweet cornstarch
• 1 cup cornstarch
• 6 teaspoons neutral alloy
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 1 cup warm water
• Sugar with cinnamon to taste for sprinkling
• Doce de leite optional

Directions

1. In a bowl, place the warm water, sugar and yeast. Let it rest for about 10 minutes;
2. Meanwhile, in a bowl, put the rice flour, milk powder, potato starch, tapioca starch, cornstarch, neutral alloy, sugar and salt;
3. Mix together and add to the dry ones the yeast sponge, vegetable oil, egg and warm water;
4. Mix with a spatula and beat in the mixer for 10 minutes on maximum speed;
5. Pour the batter into a piping bag with the thick tanga nozzle;
6. In hot oil, fry the pretzels, making the shape with the piping bag;
7. Drain on a napkin and rub in sugar with cinnamon. If preferred, serve with dulce de leche.

10. Salted pretzel

Ingredients

• ½ cup warm milk
• ½ cup warm water
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons dry baking powder
• 3 tablespoons melted butter
• 2 cups wheat flour
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• Boiling water with 3 teaspoons of baking soda
• Salt or sugar to sprinkle

Directions

1. Put in a bowl the milk and water together with the sugar. Mix well, add the yeast. Let it rest for 10 minutes;
2. Add the melted butter, some of the flour and the salt. Gradually mix until well incorporated;
3. Place dough on a work surface, knead, and gradually add remaining flour until dough is loose from hand;
4. Let dough rest for 1 hour. Roll out, cut into smaller pieces and shape into a pretzel;
5. Dip them for 10 seconds on each side in boiling water with the baking soda;
6. Drain well and place in a greased baking-pan. Sprinkle salt or sugar on top;
7. Bake in preheated oven at 230 degrees until flushed and done!

Just as the pretzel has its uncertain roots, the doughnut also shares this vagueness when it comes to pinpointing its origins, but it is so tasty and can be so incremented that it has gained admirers not only the United States, but all over the world!