Pretzel Challah | Imamother

Eminem

Mon, May 24 2010, 1:44 pm

There's a bakery in Los Angeles that makes this incredible Challah that tastes like pretzels.
Anyone have a recipe?

rnnr

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 6:20 pm

Pretzel Challa:
1. Make any challa recipe as usual including braiding/making rolls
2. Make the following solution in a pot over a stove: 1/3 cup baking soda and 4 cups water
3. Wait for solution to boil
4. Dip the challa into the pot (u might want to make rolls so it fits in a pot, or smallish challas) and let it sit in the boiling water for about 30 seconds per side
5. Remove challa from water
6. Bake as usual - do NOT egg it

Amarante

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 7:10 pm

Well this is something I didn't need to find out about. Lol How long can my better half prevent me from detouring to Got Kosher. Thank you very much lol

sky

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 7:32 pm

The kosher by design teen book has a great recipe.
It is fantastic served with a honey mustard dip.

[I just realized this was a really old request]

tigerwife

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 7:37 pm

Wow, sounds amazing! The boiled one sounds like a bagel challah!

Amarante

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 8:27 pm

A dangerous thread for me lol

What do pretzels and challah have in common? Not much. At least until the two met at Got Kosher? Provisions, a take-out shop on Pico Boulevard just west of Robertson. Chef-owner Alain Cohen introduced a pretzel challah in January, and has watched sales zoom. He's had to double oven capacity and add a night shift so that customers can have all the pretzel challah they want (there's traditional challah too).

The pretzel version isn't ordinary challah twisted into a pretzel. It's a lighter dough braided like classic challah, then immersed in a baking soda solution and sent to the oven, emerging with a glistening, deep mahogany crust and pretzel flavor. "I've always loved the pretzel," says Cohen, so that became the first in his line of gourmet challahs.

A skilled chef, Cohen worked in his father's restaurant growing up in Paris, where his parents settled after emigrating from Tunisia. In Los Angeles since 1981, he began cooking kosher meals for friends, then started wholesaling pre-packaged kosher foods to companies that wanted kosher options in their food service outlets.

A year ago, Cohen opened the retail shop, where all the food is dairy-free. It's a café too, with a few tables on the sidewalk, grab-and-go prepared foods and a long menu of kosher dishes that require advance order. In addition to plain pretzel challah, Cohen now offers pretzel challah with Belgian chocolate chunks, a whole wheat version, one sprinkled with sea salt and another with onions inside and out.

tigerwife

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 8:32 pm

Amarante, I'm drooling.
Another reason to visit LA again.

Amarante

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 8:40 pm

Two day flat priority is cheaper than air fare. LOL

I love good bread and butter. A weakness.

mommyla

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 8:41 pm

tigerwife wrote:

Amarante, I'm drooling.
Another reason to visit LA again.

It's worth every bite!

Amarante

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 8:44 pm

http://www.gotkosherinc.com/

And the rest of the items are divine. Truly food [filth] just to fantasize about my order. LOL

Amarante

Tue, Jul 07 2015, 8:48 pm

This isn't the same but I bet theynwould be good and there is an extensive tutorial with pictures to help with the process.

http://toriavey.com/toris-kitc.....llah/