What are Pizza Pretzels? Your New Menu Item Using Frozen Pizza Shells!
Customers love chicken wings and frozen breadsticks. But when you want to offer them something truly different, put pizza pretzels on your menu!
Pizza pretzels are just what their name suggests – pizza on top of a pretzel. These are delicious snacks to offer along your piece-by-the-slice offers; and you can even make mini pizza pretzels and put them on your appetizer menu. The problem most cooks and restaurant owners run into when they’re trying to make pizza pretzels is folding them into that distinct pretzel shape. The good news is that it’s easy!
Start by defrosting your frozen pizza shells. Then, on a work surface generously dusted with flour, roll it out and cut it into thin, long strips about two inches across each. Working with each strip individually, roll each strand of dough from end to end along the work surface until it is one long tube is formed for each. Then it’s to shape them into pretzels!
Again, one by one, shape each strand of dough into a circle, allowing the ends to overlap about one inch each at the top of that circle. Twist these ends around each other and then, keeping the dough on the work surface for support, fold those ends down and over, to the bottom of the circle. If you think of the circle like a clock, the twisted ends of the strands should be placed at “5” and “7.”
Then just top with pizza sauce and a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese and bake as you would a pizza. You’ve now made pizza pretzels, and using the homemade pizza dough you already had on hand. And your customers will thank you for it!