Skinny(ish) Pretzels and Beer Cheese
We have an appetizer night (yay for appies) at least once a month because who doesn’t love nibbling on lots of small, delicious foods?! When the genius Gina (@skinnytaste) released her AMAZING bagel recipe, I knew I had to try and make pretzels using the same dough. Lo and behold, this boyfriend pleasing recipe was born!
Skinny(ish) Pretzels and Beer Cheese
lower fat pretzels and beer cheese
Ingredients
Pretzels
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup nonfat plain greek yogurt
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp salt
Beer Cheese
- 3 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup skim milk
- 1/2 cup light beer
- 1 tsp dijon mustard
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp sriracha
- 3 cups reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
Pretzels
- preheat oven to 350°F
- fill a medium saucepan 3/4 of the way with water and add about 1/4 cup of baking soda - bring to boil
- mix flour, salt, baking powder and yogurt together until a ball forms
- roll into log and cut in 2 inch pieces
- when baking soda water is boiling, put pretzel pieces in water, a few at a time, and cook ~1-2 minutes (pretzel pieces should rise to the top of the water when ready) then place on baking sheet
- sprinkle tops of pretzel pieces with coarse kosher salt
- bake ~22 minutes, until pretzels are golden brown
Beer Cheese
- in a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt butter
- whisk in flour
- whisk in milk, a little at a time, mixing well each time
- stir in beer, dijon mustard, garlic powder, sriracha and salt
- remove from heat and fold in cheese, stirring until all cheese is melted
