"Pretzels are a very Romanian dish. This is the street food of Romania," says blogger and recipe designer Hadar Shapira, adding that "everywhere in the city of Bucharest you can find small bakeries scattered with this Romanian pretzel. That's what they sell - bagels in a variety of sausage or cheese fillings, and drinks. It costs a few shekels here and people fly for it. Romanians are literally waiting in line to buy them fresh, tasty, satisfying and cheap. It closes a corner for them at lunch."
Shapira moved to Romania with her husband and five children seven years ago, since then she began publishing recipes, mainly of pastries, on her successful blog "Hadar's Website". She posted this recipe a few days ago in the Facebook group "Hungry in Your Hunger," where she received more than 250 sympathetic comments and almost 600 likes.
Serve alongside ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard, photo: Hadar Shapira
"I usually make hot dog pretzels for lunch and serve it to the kids when they come home from school next to a saucer with ketchup. They really, really like it, it's a snack with style," she says. "What makes the pretzel and sets it apart from a regular bun is actually a dip in a soda water bath, which gives it an outer layer that crackles on the outside and is soft on the inside."
Recipe for Hadar Shapira's sausage pretzels
Components
For 12 pretzel rolls:
- 500 g flour - preferably bread flour
- 8 g dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 10 g salt (<>/<> tablespoon)
- 40 g oil
- 330 fl. oz. lukewarm water
For soda water bath:
- About 3 liters of water
- 50 g baking soda
- 2 tablespoons silan
To create the dish:
- 12 sausages to fill
- Beaten egg
- A little coarse salt and poppy seed to sprinkle (optional)
Method of preparation
Prepare the dough and rise:
Form the rolls and rise again:
Make a soda bath and bake:
Bake the pretzels for about 20 minutes or until golden and beautiful.
Best served with ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard.
Enjoy.
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