Perfect for adding something special to a light evening dinner…
it is essentially cheese profiteroles!
Ingredients:
- 40g Butter
- 125cl water
- 75g Flour
- 2 Eggs
- 75g Gruyere Cheese
- Pepper, Salt, Nutmeg
How to make :
- Put butter, salt and water in a pan and melt until small simmer.
- Mix flour in one go and incorporate to make a choux pastry, about 2/3 minutes of cooking.
- Take the mixture off the heat and add the eggs (you can beat them separately or add them one by one into the pastry directly). Mix vigorously and keep going until the mixture turns into a dough. This is the difficult part of the recipe. Keep mixing until you get a fairly dry and elastic dough.
- Add the nutmeg and pepper, keeping mixing so the pastry cools down a bit.
- Finally, add the cheese to the mixture.
- Prepare a cooking sheet and heat the oven to 200 degrees.
- The mixture should be enough to make roughly 15 (3X5) -16 (4X4) Gougeres.
- Use 2 spoons to pick some pastry and put it onto the sheet. I prefer it when the overall look is a bit rough. Rather than perfect balls. It is up to the chef to decide on this.
- Cook in the preheated oven.
- Do not open the door of the oven as you are cooking the Gougeres…probably about 20-25 minutes.
Enjoy with family and a glass of wine…
