Homemade Pretzel Dog Recipe
The ultimate homemade Pretzel Dog Recipe made with hot dogs wrapped with a soft and chewy pretzel dough and baked.
Ingredients
- 12 beef hot dogs
- coarse salt, optional
Pretzel dough-
- 1 1/2 cups warm water, 110°F
- 2 ¼ tsp active dry yeast
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp granulated sugar
- 3 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- 4 cups all-purpose flour, measured then sifted
Water bath-
- 8 cups water
- 1/3 cup baking soda
Instructions
Prepare pretzel dough-
- In a bowl or kitchen aid bowl add the sifted flour and salt and mix.
- In a separate bowl, add the warm water, yeast, sugar, melted butter and mix. Allow to sit for about 5 minutes, allowing the yeast to activate. Pour the mixture into the flour.
- With a kitchen aid hook attachment or by hand, knead the dough until well incorporated.
- Cover the dough and allow it to rise for 1 hour.
Shape the pretzel dogs-
- In a large pot bring the water and baking soda to a boil.
- Preheat the oven to 450°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Once the dough has risen, flour workspace and add the dough onto the work space.
- Divide the dough into 12 equal parts. Roll out each piece into about an 18 inch rope and then wrap the dough around a hot dog pinching the sealing ends so that it does not unfold.
- Repeat with all 12 hot dogs and the rest of the dough.
- Add about 3 pretzel dogs at a time in the water bath for about 30 seconds, with a strainer spatula remove the pretzel dogs then add them to the prepared baking sheet. Top with coarse salt if desired.
- Bake the pretzel dogs at 450°F for about 14-16 minutes or until crispy and golden.