Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pretzel bites. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pretzel Bites is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Pretzel Bites is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pretzel bites using 19 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pretzel Bites:

1. Prepare Pretzel ingredients
2. Prepare 1 1/2 Cups Warm Water
3. Make ready 1 Packet Yeast (2 1/2 tsp)
4. Take 1 Tsp Salt
5. Get 1 Tbsp Brown Sugar
6. Prepare 1 Tbsp Shortening (softened)
7. Prepare 1 Tsp Butter flavoring (optional)
8. Make ready 5 Cups Flour, General Purpose
9. Take Soda bath
10. Get 9 Cups Water
11. Take 1/2 Cup Baking Soda
12. Get Prebake
13. Make ready 1 Egg White (Large Egg)
14. Make ready Coarse Sea Salt
15. Make ready Other things
16. Take sheet Cookie
17. Take Parchment paper
18. Make ready bowls Several
19. Get spoon Slotted

Instructions to make Pretzel Bites:

1. Gather all the ingredients. Prep work is key to making this go smoothly.
2. In a bowl, whisk together warm water and yeast. Let sit for a minute or so.
3. Whisk in the salt, brown sugar, shortening, and butter flavoring (if desired.) Whisk until well blended. NOTE: while trying for an emulsion, it is perfectly fine to have broken up bits of shortening in the bowl.
4. Using wooden spoon, or dough hook, gradually add flour 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough is not the consistency of paste, and has a slight spring to it.
5. Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface, and knead for three minutes.
6. Lightly cover with cloth, and let rise 10 minutes.
7. While dough is rising, prepare Soda bath on stove top and bring to a boil. Preheat oven to 400F.
8. Once dough has risen, deflate and flatten it slightly. Cut into long strips. A pizza cutter works well at this point.
9. Cut the long strips into smaller squares.
10. Roll each square into a ball and set aside. Repeat until dough is used up.
11. In batches of four or five, place dough balls into soda bath for around 30-45 seconds. Lift out with slotted spoon, drain, and set on parchment lined cookie sheet.
12. Repeat step 11 until all dough balls are done.
13. Wash each dough ball with egg white, and sprinkle generously with coarse sea salt.
14. Bake for approximately 17 - 19 minutes, until deep golden brown with a hard shell crust.
15. Remove. Cool. Enjoy!

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