Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

There is nothing like a hot, salty pretzel just out of the oven. Chewy, soft, salty and almost a little malty. So delicious, and I can’t believe it is possible to make these at home! And seriously- it is so easy!

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

I made the dough last week during the day and then I let the girls form the pretzels when they got home from school. Pia and Coco had the best time trying to twirl the dough into just the right shapes.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

I absolutely love these pretzels piping hot and fresh out of the oven and totally slathered in this really spicy and sweet onion mustard. So good.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Tons of these pretzels would be so incredible piled in a big basket for your superbowl party, or even just as the best afterschool snack EVER for your kids on one lucky afternoon!

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

For the Soft Pretzels:
Combine water, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Sprinkle yeast on top and wait 5 minutes, until mixture starts to foam. Add flour and butter and begin to mix with dough hook attachment on low speed, until ingredients are combined.

Turn up the mixer to medium speed and work until the dough is smooth and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, approximately 4-5 minutes. Remove the dough, coat the bowl with cooking spray, return the dough, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm spot in your kitchen until it doubles in size, about one hour.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Preheat oven to 450. In the meantime, coat two cookie sheets with cooking spray. In a deep saucepan or roasting pan, combine the water and baking soda. In a bowl, beat egg and water. When you’re ready, bring the water to a boil.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Divide the dough into eight pieces. Roll each piece into a long, thin rope about 2 feet long. Twist into a pretzel shape.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Give each pretzel a 30 second bath in the boiling water mixture, remove with a flat spatula and place on the greased cookie sheet.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Brush with egg wash and sprinkle with kosher salt.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Bake for 12 minutes until a deep, golden brown is achieved. Cool on a rack before serving.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

For The Mustard:
In a sauté pan, melt the butter over medium heat.
Add the diced onion and sprinkle with kosher salt. Sweat the onion for 20 minutes until very soft and tender and slightly golden.
Add to the bowl of a food processor and combine with the mustard and the brown sugar.
Puree on high until well combined. Serve the mustard with hot pretzels!

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Adapted from Alton Brown

Recipe: Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Ingredients

  • Soft Pretzels
  • – 1 1/2 cups warm water (110-115 degrees F)
  • – 1 tablespoon sugar
  • – 2 teaspoons salt
  • – 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast (1 package)
  • – 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • – 2 ounces unsalted butter, melted
  • – cooking spray
  • – 10 cups water
  • – 2/3 cup baking soda
  • – 1 large egg yolk beaten
  • – 1 tablespoon water
  • – kosher salt
  • Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard
  • – 2 Tbs butter
  • – 1 yellow onion, diced
  • – kosher salt
  • – ¼ cup brown sugar
  • – 8 ounces Dijon mustard

Instructions

  1. For the Soft Pretzels:
  2. 1. Combine water, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Sprinkle yeast on top and wait 5 minutes, until mixture starts to foam. Add flour and butter and begin to mix with dough hook attachment on low speed, until ingredients are combined.
  3. 2. Turn up the mixer to medium speed and work until the dough is smooth and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, approximately 4-5 minutes.
  4. 3. Remove the dough, coat the bowl with cooking spray, return the dough, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm spot in your kitchen until it doubles in size, about one hour.
  5. 4. Preheat oven to 450. In the meantime, coat two cookie sheets with cooking spray. In a deep saucepan or roasting pan, combine the water and baking soda.
  6. 5. In a bowl, beat egg and water. When you’re ready, bring the water to a boil.
  7. 6. Divide the dough into eight pieces. Roll each piece into a long, thin rope about 2 feet long. Twist into a pretzel shape.
  8. 7.. Give each pretzel a 30 second bath in the boiling water mixture, remove with a flat spatula and place on the greased cookie sheet. Brush with egg wash and sprinkle with kosher salt. Bake for 12 minutes until a deep, golden brown is achieved. Cool on a rack before serving.
  9. For The Mustard:
  10. 1.In a sauté pan, melt the butter over medium heat.
  11. 2.Add the diced onion and sprinkle with kosher salt. Sweat the onion for 20 minutes until very soft and tender and slightly golden.
  12. Add to the bowl of a food processor and combine with the mustard and the brown sugar.
  13. Puree on high until well combined. Serve the mustard with hot pretzels!

Preparation time: 1 hour(s) 20 minute(s)

Cooking time: 30 minute(s)

Number of servings (yield): 8

 

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Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

There is nothing like a hot, salty pretzel just out of the oven. Chewy, soft, salty and almost a little malty. So delicious, and I can’t believe it is possible to make these at home! And seriously- it is so easy!

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

I made the dough last week during the day and then I let the girls form the pretzels when they got home from school. Pia and Coco had the best time trying to twirl the dough into just the right shapes.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

I absolutely love these pretzels piping hot and fresh out of the oven and totally slathered in this really spicy and sweet onion mustard. So good.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Tons of these pretzels would be so incredible piled in a big basket for your superbowl party, or even just as the best afterschool snack EVER for your kids on one lucky afternoon!

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

For the Soft Pretzels:
Combine water, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Sprinkle yeast on top and wait 5 minutes, until mixture starts to foam. Add flour and butter and begin to mix with dough hook attachment on low speed, until ingredients are combined.

Turn up the mixer to medium speed and work until the dough is smooth and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, approximately 4-5 minutes. Remove the dough, coat the bowl with cooking spray, return the dough, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm spot in your kitchen until it doubles in size, about one hour.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Preheat oven to 450. In the meantime, coat two cookie sheets with cooking spray. In a deep saucepan or roasting pan, combine the water and baking soda. In a bowl, beat egg and water. When you’re ready, bring the water to a boil.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Divide the dough into eight pieces. Roll each piece into a long, thin rope about 2 feet long. Twist into a pretzel shape.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Give each pretzel a 30 second bath in the boiling water mixture, remove with a flat spatula and place on the greased cookie sheet.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Brush with egg wash and sprinkle with kosher salt.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Bake for 12 minutes until a deep, golden brown is achieved. Cool on a rack before serving.

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

For The Mustard:
In a sauté pan, melt the butter over medium heat.
Add the diced onion and sprinkle with kosher salt. Sweat the onion for 20 minutes until very soft and tender and slightly golden.
Add to the bowl of a food processor and combine with the mustard and the brown sugar.
Puree on high until well combined. Serve the mustard with hot pretzels!

Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Adapted from Alton Brown

Recipe: Soft Pretzels with Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard

Ingredients

  • Soft Pretzels
  • – 1 1/2 cups warm water (110-115 degrees F)
  • – 1 tablespoon sugar
  • – 2 teaspoons salt
  • – 2 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast (1 package)
  • – 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • – 2 ounces unsalted butter, melted
  • – cooking spray
  • – 10 cups water
  • – 2/3 cup baking soda
  • – 1 large egg yolk beaten
  • – 1 tablespoon water
  • – kosher salt
  • Sweet and Spicy Onion Mustard
  • – 2 Tbs butter
  • – 1 yellow onion, diced
  • – kosher salt
  • – ¼ cup brown sugar
  • – 8 ounces Dijon mustard

Instructions

  1. For the Soft Pretzels:
  2. 1. Combine water, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Sprinkle yeast on top and wait 5 minutes, until mixture starts to foam. Add flour and butter and begin to mix with dough hook attachment on low speed, until ingredients are combined.
  3. 2. Turn up the mixer to medium speed and work until the dough is smooth and pulls away from the sides of the bowl, approximately 4-5 minutes.
  4. 3. Remove the dough, coat the bowl with cooking spray, return the dough, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm spot in your kitchen until it doubles in size, about one hour.
  5. 4. Preheat oven to 450. In the meantime, coat two cookie sheets with cooking spray. In a deep saucepan or roasting pan, combine the water and baking soda.
  6. 5. In a bowl, beat egg and water. When you’re ready, bring the water to a boil.
  7. 6. Divide the dough into eight pieces. Roll each piece into a long, thin rope about 2 feet long. Twist into a pretzel shape.
  8. 7.. Give each pretzel a 30 second bath in the boiling water mixture, remove with a flat spatula and place on the greased cookie sheet. Brush with egg wash and sprinkle with kosher salt. Bake for 12 minutes until a deep, golden brown is achieved. Cool on a rack before serving.
  9. For The Mustard:
  10. 1.In a sauté pan, melt the butter over medium heat.
  11. 2.Add the diced onion and sprinkle with kosher salt. Sweat the onion for 20 minutes until very soft and tender and slightly golden.
  12. Add to the bowl of a food processor and combine with the mustard and the brown sugar.
  13. Puree on high until well combined. Serve the mustard with hot pretzels!

Preparation time: 1 hour(s) 20 minute(s)

Cooking time: 30 minute(s)

Number of servings (yield): 8

 

Recipe by Heather Christo (http://heatherchristo.com)