Pretzel Buns
- Lyndsey
- Sep 5, 2017
- 3 min read
Hey pals! I hope you all had a lovely holiday weekend! I spent the weekend with my sister and mom and our favorite man alive Ed Sheeran. Have y'all seen him?! He puts on a heck of a show! ANYWAYS my brother in law was at my house with my husband and they had a fun boys weekend, football, NASCAR, beer what else do they need? I came home yesterday and we spent the day at the pool and had a cookout. The boys said I wish we had pretzel buns and I said oh I know how to make those and I saw their faces so two hours later they had pretzel buns with their burgers.
So let's talk about pretzels...What makes it a pretzel? Any guesses? I'll tell you. It's the boiling in water and baking soda before baking.
There are recipes out there that are specific to pretzels, but you can use various types of dough because like I said, it's the process of boiling it. I've made my pizza dough recipe and made pretzel bites before. So if you are in a pinch, other dough works as well.
This time, I wanted to make sure that I had enough dough to make buns, so I followed this recipe for the dough. It was simple enough yeast, sugar, water, flour salt etc. all things most people have in their kitchen. Then after the dough rises and you roll them into bun shaped balls, you boil them in baking soda and water then top with egg and salt (the egg is to make sure the salt sticks) and bake until done! the recipe says 15-20 minutes, but the fifteen minutes seemed to be enough time! I didn't want to over bake them, especially since they were going to be toasted on the grill!
I don't have many pictures except for the finished product, because I was trying to make sure the boys got their food in a timely manner!
Here is the recipe that I used from The Lady Behind the Curtain's blog! It was so delicious I highly recommend it! And click on the link above (linked as recipe) for more descriptive pictures since I forgot to take them!
Ingredients
I-1/2 cup warm water (110 degrees)
2-1/4 teaspoons or 1/4 ounce active dry yeast (that is typically one packet of yeast)
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
4-1/4 cups all-purpose or bread flour (this time I used all-purpose flour)
2 teaspoons salt
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1/4 cup baking soda
1 egg, lightly beaten
salt for sprinkling (pretzel or kosher)
Instructions
In the bowl of your stand up mixer fitted with the dough hook, add the water, yeast and sugar.
Stir and let rest for 5 - 10 minutes or until foamy.
Add the flour, salt and melted butter.
Mix until well combined and forms a ball.
Transfer to a medium bowl sprayed with non stick cooking spray, cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
Pull dough out of bowl onto a lightly floured surface and divide into 8 equal portions (about 4.2 ounces each). (let's be real I didn't measure it, so it kind of made different shapes, but I don't think that mattered!)
Form each portion into and ball by first pinching the top to the bottom and then rolling in the palm of your hand.
Place on prepared cookie sheet seam down in a staggered position.
Cover with towel allow to rest in a warm place for 30 minutes or until they rise and double.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees and place oven rack in the middle position.
In a large saucepan, bring 2 quarts of water to a low boil.
Remove from heat and slowly add the baking soda.
Return to heat and continue with a steady boil.
Place 2 - 3 of the rolls at a time in the poaching liquid, seam side down.
Poach for 30 seconds and then carefully turn the roll over and poach for another 30 seconds.
Remove with a slotted spoon to the same prepared sheet pan, seam side down.
Repeat with the remaining rolls.
Using a pastry brush, brush each roll with the beaten egg, making sure to coat all sides completely and then sprinkle each roll with salt.
Using a sharp straight edged knife, cut a "X" shape in the top of each roll.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
What do you guys think? Pretzel buns or regular buns? Try them out and let me know! Enjoy!
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