Frozen Dough Soft Pretzels

INGREDIENTS

• frozen dinner rolls, dough thawed but still cold
• 1 tablespoon baking soda
• melted butter
• coarse salt

TIP:  You can use frozen dinner rolls, frozen bread dough, Grand's biscuits or fresh pizza dough from the bakery department at your local grocery store.

DIRECTIONS

1. Roll 2 dinner rolls combined or one Texas roll into a 16-inch rope. Form into a pretzel shape. Repeat with remaining rolls and place on large sprayed baking sheets.
2. Cover with sprayed plastic wrap and let rise 30-45 minutes.
3. In a large saucepan, bring 6-inches of water with 2 tablespoons of baking soda to boil.
4. Remove plastic wrap and slip pretzels, a few at a time, into gently boiling water. Boil each pretzel for 30 seconds on each side. Remove with slotted spoon; drain on cooling rack.
5. Return to sprayed baking sheet. Bake immediately at 375 degrees F 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
6. Top with melted butter and coarse salt. Or whatever toppings you desire!

For Freezer Meals

• Prepare the pretzels finishing at step 5. Let them cool to room temperature before freezing them individually with freezer bags or plastic wrap. Wrap them in tinfoil if you plan to reheat them in the air fryer or oven.

Microwave

• Wrap a damp paper towel over the pretzels and microwave for 1 minute and 15 seconds. Finish with step 6.

Oven

• Preheat oven to 350ºF. Place the pretzel wrapped in tinfoil in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Finish with step 6.

Air Fryer

• Place pretzel wrapped in tinfoil in the air fryer basket at 350ºF for 7 minutes. Finish with step 6.

Using Grands! Biscuits

TYPES OF DOUGH TO USE?

You can use frozen bread dough. Any kind.  Bread or rolls.  Found in the freezer aisle for breads.

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Some bakery departments also have ready made pizza dough that you can buy and immediately use.  They make it daily and it sits in a little fridge by the fresh baked bread.

Then there is Grands! biscuits.

There are so many possibilities.  Yes, you could make your own dough and go from scratch.  Using any of these pre-made items helps jump start the process and skip that whole step.