Rain rain go away, little children want to play... it has been raining for almost half of the day now. The carving of having piping hot pretzel popping into my mouth with a cup of hot coffee is the only thing I need most from one of my sleepless night with baby Shane.
So without any hesitation, let's get started on making some mini cheese hotdog pretzel! Unlike those hard pretzel you have tasted at Auntie Anne, my version is softer yet tougher than normal bread.
The question now is what do you need?
This recipe will yield 16 mini pretzels
Equipment:
Electrical Mixer with swirling hook attachment
Ingredients:
For the dough -
1 cup of warm water ( about 40-50 Degrees Celsius)
1/2 cup of low fat milk; alternatively, you may opt for skim milk =)
2 1/4 teaspoons of active dry yeast
4 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
1 teaspoon of salt
15 g of sugar
28 g of butter
For the fillings -
8 pieces of hotdogs of your choice
Mozzarella cheese
1 egg with splash of water as egg wash
This recipe is supposed to have the pretzel dipped in baking soda solution before egg wash, but I did not do it since I don't have baking soda at home.
For the dough
1) Mix the butter, salt and milk together (Mixture A) and microwave it for 1 minute and leave it to cool.
2) In the mixer bowl, dissolve the sugar and the warm water first then mix in the active dry yeast. Once done, wait for approximately 5 minutes or until you have seen foaming from the mixture.
3) Add in Mixture A into the mixer bowl and stir with the electric mixer. Add the flour slowly into mixer bowl, add more flour if required to ensure the dough is not very sticky.
4) Once done, kneed the dough for 5-10 minutes on the surface dusted with all purpose flour.
5) Round the dough and put into the big bowl which was oiled with vegetable oil on its surface.
6) Use a clean towel to cover the top for 1 hour in a warm environment.
The dough should be expanded twice its original size.
7) Divide the expanded dough into 16 pieces onto a oiled flat surface.
For the filling
8) Cut the hotdogs into half.
9) Cut the middle of the cut hotdog and stuff the mozzarella cheese into the slit.
9) Once ready, pick 1 of the divided dough and coil around the hotdog, making sure both ends do not have any exposed ends of the hotdog.
10) 30 minutes before placing the hotdog pretzels into the oven, heat the oven at 180 Degrees Celsius.
11) Egg wash the top of the hotdog pretzels .
12) Place the tray of 16 pieces of mini hotdogs pretzels into the oven for 15 minutes until golden brown.
Hope you try the recipe out and I have a hearty teabreak with these mini pretzels~~
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