Hey Cookaholics, Chef Kendra here and today we are making pretzel bites with some beer cheddar
cheese sauce. So let's you and i do we do and make it happen get some water in this dutch oven
but you can use any large pot
next we're going to sprinkle in some baking soda we're going to turn this on medium
we have a large bowl here and get that down we're going to put our flour in
kosher salt
yeast brown sugar
i'm gonna mix this up
we're just using the fork here at this stage of the game
so excited i love soft pretzels
gotta take my watch in my hoodie off i'm pour the water in mix that in
just gonna stir this
and then i'm going to start looking all shaggy like that get some flour on my hands
come here and we won't start meat
and we're gonna need this until it comes together until it has a smooth feel to it about five
minutes something always satisfying about getting your hands on some dough and giving it a good need
and this dough is easy to work with so no worries there guys super easy
okay guys our dough has been kneaded for five minutes sprinkle a little bench flower
on this cutting board
get our guy out here now cut this guy
and eight pieces
one two three four five six seven eight yeah it doesn't matter now i'm just gonna roll this guy
out just like so now if i was making these into pretzels regular big pretzels
it starts the same way roll them out
but i'm just making pretzel bites
trying to get them somewhat even
and i'm just going to put them on this cutting board i'm not baking them on this
but a little holding station
and if you haven't gotten your water with your baking soda
about to boil now will be a good time to do it
you want them roughly the same time but it really doesn't matter that much.
Yo yo Houston we have boiling water.
So now this is what we are we have some are our fights ready we have this bowl here so when we
pull them out we can drain them a little bit drain them a little bit on here and then we have
our sill pad over there waiting to receive our boys
well i'm going to keep them in here for about 15 seconds let me get some man enough we can manage
that one thousand two so on and so forth
all right and we're gonna pull them out
and we put them on here
and then we finish the rest this is about half of it now we're gonna get these in the oven
these guys for 10 minutes
look at that guys look at that now guys we have some melted butter right here
and we're going to brush on the melted butter like some balls you know how we do up in here
brushing that butter on all fancy like i mean if you could really brush butter on fancy whatever
i don't really think it's a fancy way to do it probably can put the camera up close
a good camera and be like oh yeah yes that would be fancy you think
all right once we get these guys properly brushed down we're going to take some kosher salt
now it's not really a measurement here you're just drizzle on how much you want
there's also some pretzel salt that's bigger you don't have any of that so
kosher
don't go crazy
cheese this is mild cheddar cheese these are mustard we have some garlic powder some paprika
some flour you have some salt black pepper milk butter and Worcestershire
cider sauce and right here you have an optional ingredient this is sodium
citrate it makes the sauce stay creamy this is totally optional
you're gonna put that into the milk and give that a stir oh we also have beer
we have beer in this cup favorite beer yo we have a pot here that we're gonna get over medium heat
we're gonna add our butter to the pot now we're going to melt this butter
it's not oktoberfest or anything like that but sometimes you have a case or something and you
just have to make it am i right don't you get or or even if you don't like to cook you get
a taste of something you'll actually get in your vehicle and drive to the establishment to get what
you want or you'll pay uber eats way too much for something because you have a taste board
and this is a very flavorful cheese sauce and it pairs really well with our pretzel bites
it's melted we're going to sprinkle our flour on top
now i'm pouring milk in slowly by attempting to stir with my right hand
now this is similar to gravy and the fact that if you feel like you have lumps after it's all
said and done just run it through a blender it's no big deal just food we're just cooking
all we're looking for is a little fun and something delicious now i'm gonna stir
and cook this for about two minutes but what we really want is to have it come to a slight bubble
that way we know that the flour is truly cooked through and will have reached a bit of thickness
so you guys see it's starting to get thick you can see the thickness
now i'm gonna turn this down to low and we're gonna add the paprika
the kosher salt the garlic powder the garlic powder
the black pepper
the dijon mustard
the worcestershire sauce the wish chester
shire sauce i think i actually said it right that second time
our beer
now i'm going gonna add our cheese just get it in there and we're gonna stir it in until it melts
and our sauce will be just about ready
you want to taste it and make sure you like it that it has
enough salty flavor but you don't want to go crazy with salt because this is cheese
and it's inherently salty and we put a little salt in there plus a salt on the pretzel bites
look at this that's gorgeous
look at that
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Yo, that's all for this time i'll see you next time Chef Kendra is out peace