Description
Delicious gluten-free soft pretzels with a cinnamon-sugar or a sea salt topping. Lactose-free and low FODMAP.
Ingredients
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For the dough
- 3 ½ cups gluten-free flour (I used gluten-free flour by Schär, an Italian brand)
- 2 teaspoons instant yeast
- 1 ¼ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 1/4 cup warm water
- 1 large egg (at room temperature)
- 2 tablespoons soft butter
For the water bath and topping
- 3 ½ lt water
- ¼ cup baking soda
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- Melted butter
- Sea salt
- Cinnamon and sugar
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius or 425 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In a bowl stir together the flour, sugar, yeast, salt, baking powder and xanthan gum. Add the water, egg and butter and knead everything into a firm dough using a mixer. This takes about 4 minutes. If the dough is too dry you can add a few tablespoons of water.
- Grease a bowl, put the dough in a bowl and cover it. Leave the dough to rise in a warm place until almost doubled, about 45 to 90 minutes.
- Put the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Cut the dough into 10 pieces and roll each piece into a long rope. Fold into a pretzel shape.
- Line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Bring the water for the water bath to boil. Stir in the sugar and the baking soda.
- Drop the pretzels into the water one at a time and boil them for about 5 seconds. They will sink and then float to the surface.
- Put the pretzels on the baking sheet. Brush the pretzels with the melted butter and top them with either a mixture of sugar and cinnamon or with sea salt. We chose to make 6 sweet and 4 savoury pretzels.
- Bake the gluten-free soft pretzels for 18-20 minutes. Watch them closely, some ovens may bake faster than others, this might require you to bake the pretzels a bit shorter or longer. If the pretzels get too dark too quickly you can cover them with a bit of aluminium foil or turn down the temperature a bit.
- You can store the pretzels up to 4 days into an airtight box. They will taste best if you will put them in the oven for a few minutes before eating them. If you want to keep them longer you can freeze them.
- Prep Time: 90 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins