This recipe for Norwegian waffles has been a staple in my husband’s family for many years.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 40 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 dozen pretzels |
Ingredients
- 2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
- 1 cup warm water (110 degrees F (43 degrees C))
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 tablespoon shortening, melted
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon water
- coarse salt, or to taste
Instructions
- Stir yeast into 1 cup warm water in a large bowl; beat in flour, sugar, shortening, and salt to make a dough. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead for 5 minutes.
- Place dough into a greased bowl and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Punch down dough and divide into 12 equal-size pieces. Roll each piece into a rope 18 to 20 inches long.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
- Shape each rope of dough into a pretzel on the prepared baking sheet; let pretzels rest for 5 minutes. Beat egg yolk with 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl and brush yolk mixture over each pretzel; sprinkle each with coarse salt.
- Bake in the preheated oven until pretzels are golden brown, about 15 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 158 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 30 g |
| Cholesterol | 17 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1 g |
| Sodium | 676 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Fat | 2 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Dough was dry and hard to work. Resulted in a dry, dense pretzel. I recommend putting in the flour incrementally so you get a better result. I will try again.
These did not taste like pretzels at all. If anything, they were bland and resembled a biscuit-like texture. This is not to say that they wee terrible, but I wound up slicing them open (I shaped them like logs), and putting butter on them. I would not recommend this recipe for pretzel-making, however, I suspect that if you add ingredients as others have suggested (cinnamon, cheddar, etc.), they might be good for that.
Awesome!!
These pretzels were AMAZING!!
Great!
This was a great recipe! Being a newbie to using bread dough, but wanting to get more into it, this was a perfect recipe to try. I made one batch, and they were so good I made them again on the same day 🙂 The changes I made were letting the yeast, water and sugar sit for about five min before I started, and for the second batch, I mixed in some cheddar cheese to the dough. Would recommend eating these with mustard!
It was raining outside and I wanted to make something new. Why not pretzels? I went through a bunch of recipes, but this one seemed easiest. And it was! I used brown sugar instead of regular sugar,only 3 cups of flour (as suggested) and I boiled them because others said to (I didn’t boil one and it is just as good…so I won’t next time). I did do the water, yeast and sugar first and let it sit for a few minutes, but that’s really all I did differently. These were so easy and my husband likes them. This is definitely a keeper and one to do again and again!!! There is really no reason to change anything! Great recipe!!!!! *update: made them again…didn’t boil. They smell and look great…smoother. Next time I will make 15 smaller ones. Never thought I would make bread….never say never!
I took the advice in other reviews and shortened the flour down to 3 cups and still found it a little too dry. It was difficult to roll out and I hurt my wrist so make sure to take a rest/stretch for the sake of your hands! Otherwise, this was easy to make and turned out delicious.
This was good. We put the sugar, yeast, and water in together to allow the yeast to activate. The salt that is put on top of the pretzel is extremely important to the overall taste. While we like this recipe, we will try others before making it again.
These pretzels were a huge hit! And probably cost less to make than it would cost to buy one elsewhere. We had a ton of fun, and I know we’ll make these again.
came out well maybe a double batch next time and freeze some these didn’t last long
Great recipe! Super easy to follow, and the result is exactly what I was hoping for. I managed to make 16 pretzels with this recipe, once I got the consistency of the dough right it ended up being just a bit more than the called for measurements. Also, I baked mine for about 18 mins at 375°C to achieve a perfect golden brown.
Great Recipe!
Very easy recipe. I was a bit surprised when mixing the yeast in warm water that you are not required to let it foam for 10 minutes. These tasted wonderful. The only thing I changed after reading reviews was the amount of flour. I only added 3 cups. Dough came out perfect. Instead of shortening, I melted 1 tablespoon of butter. I WILL be making these again!
Awesome!! Made these for Super Bowl and they were a hit! Will definitely make these again!
This recipe is perfect just as it is, I’ve made it multiple times. Stick to the ingredients and you shouldn’t have any problems, if you substitute ingredients then I can’t really say. I use vegetable shortening. Main thing I’d like to point out is to make sure you MELT THE SHORTENING! I was moving pretty quick cooking other things etc. and I didn’t melt the shortening, the dough was impossible and I thought I added too much flour. Also, I wouldn’t use packed cups of flour, I just scooped out rough cups of flour with out packing them and everything comes out excellent. Great recipe!
tastes like bread it needs jam or cheese or something on it.
I only used 3 cups of flour and turned out great. Instead of using water in the egg wash I used butter. Loved it
Great recipe except that it calls for too much flour. I will probably start out with 3 cups or 2 1/2 cups next time.
this was amazing a little time consuming but other then that it was great. I think my only problem way i didn’t let them rise but that is on me other then that, amazing, fabulous!
These are amazing. I followed some others suggestions and didn’t use quite as much flour as it called for. Ither than that, they are fantastic. All my brothers and sisters love them. I will definetly make them again. They go great in lunch boxes.