Soft Sourdough Pretzels Recipe. Perfect for Oktoberfest or football season 🥨

Описание: Tomorrow is the start of Oktoberfest and you’ve gotta make these soft Sourdough Pretzels! 🥨 🍻

I use a somewhat unconventional method to get the quintessential color on these pretzels that doesn’t involve lye- a baked baking soda bath!

Yep, bake a sheet pan of baking soda and it will concentrate the soda to a higher PH, which will make the solution more alkaline. This contributes to better browning.

It’s not a 100% necessary step (you could do a normal baking soda bath like bagels or use lye if you have it), but I think it’s a good in between option for home bakers looking for that dark brown pretzel color but don’t want to deal with caustic lye around (🙋‍♂️).

There’s some rye flour added for flavor (sub with whole wheat) and I prefer to add a pinch of instant yeast, which contributes to their soft and chewy texture. Once again, optional, but it was a little trick I picked up from expert baker @sourdoughhough last year.

With pretzel salt, dipped in some whole grain mustard, with a beer stein, these are hard to beat. They’re also great for football season!

👉 Recipe: https://sourdoughbrandon.com/sourdoug...

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