Choux Pastry Recipe
Choux pastry is a very thick white sauce, sometimes called a panade of flour, water, butter, eggs and seasoning, then baked for creating little puffs, for sweets and savory appetizers.
Ingredients
- ¾ cup plain all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup water
- ⅓ cup unsalted butter cut into pieces
- 3 eggs
- Pinch of nutmeg optional
For Serving
- ½ cup icing sugar to sprinkle or chopped hard candy, nuts, candied fruit
- 1 cup about plain chocolate broken in pieces and ½ cup as needed, warm water for drizzle
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 400°F/200°C/Gas 6
- Sift the flour together with the salt and nutmeg.
- Put the water into a heavy bottomed medium pan, add the butter and bring to a boil.
- Remove it immediately from the heat and quickly add the flour mixture.
- Beat well with a wooden spoon and continue to beat until the mixture begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
- At this stage, place the pan back on a low heat and continue beating for about 2 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and place mixture in a bowl to cool down.
- When cool enough to prevent the eggs from cooking, make a well in the middle and place one egg in the well and beat into the mixture until well absorbed.
- Continue with the other eggs in the same way one at a time, it should be easier with the last egg.
- The mixture should now be shiny and smooth.
- Drop tablespoons of the mixture onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet with a scoop, leaving a space between each one to allow the puff to expand.
- You can also use a piping bag with a ½ inch round tube opening if you prefer.
- Place into a pre-heated oven and bake for about 20 minutes until crisp and golden brown.
- Take out of the oven and pierce each puff to allow the steam to escape.
- Turn the oven off and place the puffs back in the oven with the door ajar for about 10 minutes.
- Remove and allow to cool on a wire tray.
- Place the chocolate and water in a bowl in a pan over hot water (or in a double boiler if you have one) and allow the chocolate to melt, stirring as it melts.
- Keep warm while you fill the puffs with your choice of filling.
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