Milk free soft pretzel recipe

Looking milk or butter free recipe? Try this soft pretzel recipe.
My daughter has milk allergy. So, I have to make up recipes. Since to day is Friday, I thought it's appropriate to blog something on the lighter side ...

I got this soft pretzel recipe from Metro Parent (from Familyfun.com) which calls for butter. I decided to use vegetable oil instead.

1 pkg dry active yeast
1 1/2 c. lukewarm water
3/4tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp sugar
2 tbsp vegetable oil
4 c. + 1 tbsp flour
1 egg beaten
coarse salt.

Put lukewarm water in a large bowl and sugar. Then add yeast. Leave it for 10 minutes. You should see the yeast a bit bubbly. If you don't see anything, throw it away. The water may be too hot and kill the yeast.
Add salt, oil and flour. Mix it until a dough forms. Knead the dough for 5 minutes and set aside for at least 45 minutes to 1 hr. After 45 minutes, the dough should rise. Preheat oven to 450F.

Cut dough into small pieces and roll into pencil thin ropes and shape into pretzel (or any shape you like. I made spiral, heart, sigma pretzels shape). Cover a cookie sheet with foil and sprinkle 1 tbsp flour. Place pretzel onto floured cookie sheet. Brush with egg mixture and sprinkle coarse salt on top. Bake for 12 minutes.

After it cooled, my daughter went to the next neighbor to share the fresh baked pretzels.
Hmm.... lucky kids...