Smoked Pretzels

Anything you can bake in your kitchen you can bake on your grill, especially pretzels. Add a little smoke to soft, warm, homemade pretzels with your Broil King Pellet grill!
Difficulty:
3/5
Prep time:
30 min
Cook time:
20 min
Serves:
4-6

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 to 1.5 cups water (37 degrees is best… run water on your wrist until it doesn’t feel warm or cool)
  • 1 tablespoon of dry yeast
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • Pinch of fine salt
  • Coarse sea salt
  • ½ cup baking soda
  • 4 liters water

DIRECTIONS

  1. Mix dry yeast with a little bit of water and let it stand at room temperature for 10 minutes or until the yeast starts to bubble and smell more fragrant.
  2. Add all flour to the yeast mixture and begin by incorporating 1 cup of water, adding more as needed. It is important to knead dough for 15 – 20 minutes either by hand or using a dough hook in a mixer. Dough should be smooth but not stick to the sides of the bowl.
  3. Proof dough for 1 hour or until dough doubles in size.
  4. Bring 4 liters of water and ½ cup baking soda to a rolling boil and turn on Broil King pellet smoker to 425°f (218°C). Place the Pizza stone on the cooking surface.
  5. Roll out pretzels and shape.
  6. Drop pretzels in water, they should float if your dough was proofed properly, if not they will rise to the surface after a few seconds.
  7. Boil for about 30 seconds flipping halfway.
  8. Transfer pretzels to a parchment lined pizza stone and sprinkle with sea salt.
  9. Bake/smoke pretzels for 20 minutes.
  10. Finish with an egg wash for a more traditional look, however don’t put the egg wash on before the pretzels are done smoking as the dough will retain less smoke flavour.

Enjoy!