VEGAN PRETZEL BREAD

Ingredients

• 4 Cups of All purpose white non bleached flour.
• 1/3 cup melted vegan butter. I use earth balance.
• 1 1/3 cup of warm water.
• 1 pinch of salt.
• some coarse salt to decorate.

Yeast proofing:

• 2 1/4 tsp of yeast + 1/2 tsp of sugar + 1/4 cup of warm water.

Alkaline bath:

• 6 cups of water + 2 Tbsp of baking soda.

Instructions

1. Take all your yeast proofing ingredients and mix them together. Set aside until it foams and doubles in size.

In your stand mixer:

1. Mix your flour and salt.
2. Add the proofed yeast and melted butter.
3. Set your stand mixer to low speed and add your water very slowly.
4. Once you use all your water is used. Set the speed to high and let it do it's thing for 5-6 minutes.
5. Take your dough out. It should be very sticky.
6. Cut in 4 and shape it into 4 balls.
7. Spray a baking sheet with some oil, place your 4 dough balls in there, making sure that you space them by at least 3-4 inches.
8. Cover with a towel and let rise for 45 minutes or until it doubles in size.
9. Prepare your alkaline bath by putting the water (6 cups) in a large pot and bringing it to a boil. Add your baking soda.
10. Pre heat your oven to 375F.
11. Using a very sharp knife, make a a couple of incisions in your dough balls and boil them for 1-2 minutes each ONE AT A TIME. Boiling them one a time ensures that the temperature in your bath will not drop.
12. Lay some parchemin paper on a loaf pan, and put your dough balls one next the the other in the pan. I could only fit 2 in my pan. So this recipe made 2 loaves. Yaye !
13. *If you don't have parchemin paper, you can just oil your loaf pan. Please note that this will make your pretzel loaf more crispy on the bottom and sides.
14. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown.

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