Simple Homemade Pretzel Dogs

A warm dog baked proper inner a clean beer pretzel makes those the tastiest and best home made pretzel puppies you can ever devour! ready in handiest 35 minutes you can experience these any night time. they will be a awesome make beforehand recipe and that they freeze properly too. definitely thaw and dad them in a 350°F oven till warm, about five-8 minutes.

We've got waited lengthy sufficient.  I understand y'all are although freezing up north, but it is stunning proper here in Arizona and all I need is grillin' meals,  the vintage college type...  burgers and dogs!  So, Chad desired a burger on a pretzel bun and i wanted a warm canine.  here is the closing compromise.  notwithstanding the reality that I nonetheless did no longer take the quilt off my grill.

If you would love tips on options see the cook's word at the lowest of the recipe.  both manner, you and your family are going to go nuts over these!

SIMPLE HOMEMADE PRETZEL DOGS

A warm dog baked proper inner a clean beer pretzel makes those the tastiest and best home made pretzel puppies you can ever devour! ready in handiest 35 minutes you can experience these any night time. they will be a awesome make beforehand recipe and that they freeze properly too. definitely thaw and dad them in a 350°F oven till warm, about five-8 minutes.

PREP TIME: 22 MINSCOOK TIME: 13 MINSTOTAL TIME: 35 MINS

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 large egg
• coarse salt (or pretzel salt)
• 3¼ cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 2¼ teaspoons active dry yeast
• ½ cup baking soda
• 8 hot dogs
• 12 ounces warmed beer (110°-120°F)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 450°F.  Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.  Set aside.
2. Pour beer into the bowl of a stand mixer (see cooks observe in case you do no longer have a stand mixer), sprinkle yeast over pinnacle, upload honey and stir.  permit yeast to bloom for five-10 minutes.  as soon as it's far high-quality and foamy, it is ready.
3. Fill an eight quart pot with water and convey to a boil over medium excessive heat.  In a small bowl beat egg and a pair of tablespoons water with a fork.  Set apart.  Wash a phase of counter top for rolling out dough.  Do not flour it or it'll be tougher to roll out the dough.
4. Upload flour and salt to mixer.  Knead for approximately three minutes till the dough comes collectively in a single ball.  add extra flour a tablespoon at a time as wished, if bread is just too sticky to come back collectively.  Dough must be tacky while you pull it out of the mixer, now not sticky.
5. Place dough on counter pinnacle and form dough right into a ball.
6. We are going to reduce this ball into 8 (quite) even portions.  First region the ball of dough.  Then cut each quarter in half of.  Roll every piece right into a 12” strand.
7. Area end of dough strand at the give up of the hot canine pinching the stop collectively, and then wrap it across the dog until all of the dough is wrapped around the canine.  Pinch the ends so they stay together.
8. Cautiously, add baking soda to boiling water.  USE warning:  it will BUBBLE UP.  vicinity warm puppies into boiling water approximately 3 at a time.  do away with with a slotted spoon after 30 seconds.  vicinity on parchment paper to chill and repeat until all hot dogs were boiled.
9. set up all pretzel dogs on parchment so they may be now not touching.  Brush egg wash onto each one and sprinkle with coarse salt.
10. Bake for 11-13 minutes till the tops are browned.
11. Enjoy!