Recipe: Chou pastry

Name: Pâte à choux
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: Pâte à choux pour réaliser une vingtaine d'éclairs :8 cl d'eau8 cl de lait60 gr de beurre1 cuiller à café de sucre*3 gr de sel fin*75 gr de farine3 oeufsun peu de sucre glace

By chef patrick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8/5 (66 reviews) Desserts

Prep 20 min

Cook 35 min

Total 55 min

c'est une recette de base incontournable ,même si elle n'est pas énoncée de la même façon partout mais c'est la recette et j'ai choisi pour les résultats que j'espérais, après, à vous les éclairs , religieuses, chouquettes ou autres profiteroles

Ingredients

With this pastry, you will able to prepare profiteroles, éclairs, cream puffs, chou buns coated with sugar and others….

For 20 éclairs

2 fl oz water
2 fl oz milk
2 oz butter
1 tsp caster sugar
1 tsp table salt
2.5 oz strong flour
3 eggs

a little icing sugar

Step-by-step directions

1/ pre-heat the oven at 428°F

2/ in a thick bottom pot, pour the water, milk, salt, sugar and the butter cut in parcels and bring to the boil.

3/ when boiling, add the flour in one go and stir energetically, while still on the hob for 2 minutes until the dough stop sticking to the pot. Then, put it into a bowl.

4/ Fold the eggs one by one until the pastry is homogeneous

5/ pour the chou pastry into a piping bag mounted with a 4/5 inch diameter nozzle and form éclairs or buns (according to what you want to prepare) on a Teflon cooking tray or parchment and sprinkle them with a little icing sugar.

6/ Keep an eye on the baking process : the first minute at 428°F then slightly open the door of the oven and continue cooking during 15 minutes at 392°F

Let the chou cool down before filling (or not, depending what you want to prepare) them with cream or chocolate or coffee custard or chantilly cream etc…

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