Rosco Wine Christmas Pretzels
4 servings
30 minutes
There are many variations of the recipe for Christmas wine pretzels. In most cases, sweet Muscatel wine is added to the dough. Sometimes anise seeds or anise liqueur are added to the dough, and most often - sesame. Sweet wine can also be replaced with the one you like best.
1
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Pour olive oil into a pot, add sesame, and keep on low heat until the sesame aroma appears. Do not let the oil boil.
- Olive oil: 65 ml
- Sesame seeds: 10 g
2
Sift the flour and mix it in a bowl with lard, wine, powdered sugar, and anise liqueur. Gradually pour in the sesame oil and mix the dough until a homogeneous mass is achieved.
- Wheat flour: 360 g
- Lard (rendered pork fat): 40 g
- Sweet white wine: 70 ml
- Icing sugar: 100 g
- Anise liqueur: 10 ml
- Olive oil: 65 ml
- Sesame seeds: 10 g
3
Cut pieces of dough the size of a walnut and roll them in your hands or on a board into a cylinder. Then connect the ends.
4
Place the croissants on a baking sheet lined with foil or parchment paper. Bake for about 12 minutes - until they are covered with a crust while remaining soft inside (when the croissants cool, they will be crispy but not dry).
5
Remove the croissants from the oven and coat them well in powdered sugar. Let them cool.
- Icing sugar: 100 g
