Cheesy Pretzels Recipe - Cooking Index
Cheesy Pretzels Recipe - Cooking Index
| Shortening - as needed | ||
| 1 1/2 cups | 93g / 3.3oz | All-purpose flour |
| 1/2 cup | 73g / 2.6oz | Shredded Cheddar cheese - (2 oz) |
| 2/3 cup | 157ml | Milk |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Margarine or butter (from a stick) |
| 2 teaspoons | 10ml | Baking powder |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Sugar |
| 1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Salt |
| 1 teaspoon | 5ml | Egg (large) |
| Coarse salt - as needed | ||
| Utensils You Will Need | ||
| Cookie sheet | ||
| Pastry brush | ||
| A medium bowl | ||
| Fork | ||
| Dry-Ingredient measuring cups | ||
| Liquid measuring cup | ||
| Measuring spoons | ||
| Rolling pin | ||
| A small bowl | ||
| Pot holders | ||
| Spatula | ||
| Wire cooling rack |
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Generously grease cookie sheet with shortening.
Mix all other ingredients in medium bowl with fork to make a dough.
Sprinkle a clean surface (such a kitchen counter or breadboard with flour. Put dough on surface. Roll ball of dough around 3 or 4 times. Knead dough quickly and lightly by folding, pressing, and turning. Repeat 10 times.
Divide dough in half. Roll or pat half of the dough into 12- by 8-inch rectangle.
Adult help: Cut dough lengthwise into eight 1-inch-wide strips. Fold each strip lengthwise in half to make it more narrow. Pinch the edges to seal.
Twist each strip into a pretzel shape. Put pretzels, seam sides down, on cookie sheet.
Beat one large egg in small bowl with fork.
Brush pretzels with the beaten egg, then sprinkle lightly with coarse salt.
Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove pretzels from cookie sheet with spatula to wire rack. Cool. Repeat making pretzels with the rest of the dough
Here's another idea...Make Peanutty Pretzels: Leave out the cheese. Use 2 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter in place of the margarine. Use 2 tablespoons chopped salted peanuts in place of the coarse salt.
This recipe yields 16 pretzels.
Nutrition Per Pretzel: 80 calories (25 Calories from Fat); 3g protein; 3g fat (1 g saturated); 10g carbohydrate (0 g dietary fiber); 20mg cholesterol; 580mg sodium.
HINT: A pizza cutter makes quick work of cutting the dough into strips.
Source:
Cookbook Digest, May/Jun, 1996
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