Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
Choux pastry is used for making profiteroles, eclairs and other small pastries.
455,0803.7/5 for 57 ratings
Grade this recipe: Last modified on: March 2nd 2019
For 400 g, you will need:
- 1
70 ml milk - 2
70 ml water - 3
70 g butter - 4
70 g flour - 5
110 g egg - 6
2 g fine (or table) salt - 7
5 g caster sugar - 8
100 g Craquelin (sweet cracker dough) (optional) - Total weight: 497 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
Keeping: Choux pastry cooked: several hours.
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 21 min. | 43 min. | 1 hour 4 min. |
At what time?
- When will I finish if I start the recipe at a certain time?
When should I start for the recipe to be ready at a certain time?
Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Pour 70 ml milk and 70 ml water into a pan, add 70 g butter, 2 g fine (or table) salt and 5 g caster sugar.
Stage 3 - 7 min.
Heat on medium heat until butter is completely melted.
Stage 4 - 1 min.
Remove pan from heat, and 70 g flour.
Stage 6 - 1 min.
Put pan on low heat, and stir dough for one minute to dry it.
Stage 7 - 2 min.
Pour the dough in a bowl.
Stage 8 - 5 min.
Pour beaten eggs step by step...
Stage 9
...and whisk to mix.
Stage 10
Stage 11
Your choux pastry is ready.
Stage 12 - 3 min.
Stage 13 - 5 min.
Make choux with the forcing bag, in shape and size of your choice, here small round choux.
Don't forget that dough will rise and spread during cooking, so choux must not be too close together.
Don't forget that dough will rise and spread during cooking, so choux must not be too close together.
Stage 14
If you're not easy with forcing bag, you may have unwanted small peaks on top of choux
Stage 15
In this case, flat the peak using a teaspoon soaked in milk...
Stage 16
...to get a well rounded top.
Stage 17
Other solution, use craquelin (sweet cracker dough) which give a real professional look.
Stage 18 - 30 min.
Put il the oven for about 30 minutes.
Remove choux from the oven as soon as they are browned.
Note: Don't open the oven door during cooking, because the drop in temperature will make your choux collapse.
Leave to cool on a wire rack
Remove choux from the oven as soon as they are browned.
Note: Don't open the oven door during cooking, because the drop in temperature will make your choux collapse.
Leave to cool on a wire rack
Remarks
According to whether the choux pastry will be used for a sweet or savoury recipe, you can double the quantity of sugar or salt to accentuate the taste. For example: you want to make sweet cream puffs, make this recipe with 2 g salt and 5 g sugar, for salted cream puffs (with bechamel sauce for example) use 2 g sugar and 5 g salt.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,339 Kcal or 5,606 Kj | 27 gr | 118 gr | 104 gr |
| 67 % | 10 % | 11 % | 16 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 269 Kcal or 1,126 Kj | 5 gr | 24 gr | 21 gr |
| 13 % | 2 % | 2 % | 3 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 400 g : 1.29 €
Some recipes that use this recipe
Saint Honoré cake
The Saint Honoré cake is a famous example of French patisserie. It consists of a puff pastry base surrounded by a ring of caramel-coated choux puffs and topped with whipped cream (Chantilly). It is a bit tricky to make, but this recipe gives you all the hints you need.
83,7404.7/5 for 15 ratings 2 hours 51 min.
Paris-Brest
The Paris-Brest is a famous French patisserie: a ring of choux pastry, scattered with flaked almonds and icing sugar and filled with a praline cream. The name comes from a historic cycle race between Paris and Brest (600 km or 372 miles), as the shape is like a bicycle wheel.
150,7304.6/5 for 14 ratings 2 hours 18 min.
Puits d'amour
This delicious little cake's charming French name means "well of love". It is made up of layers of puff and choux pastry, assembled with a light caramel and filled with vanilla confectioner's custard.
66,5874.4/5 for 16 ratings 1 hour 43 min.
Profiteroles
Small choux pastry puffs, filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with a rich smooth chocolate sauce.
268,744 14.5/5 for 2 ratings 1 hour 35 min.
Gougères
Gougères are small cheese choux pastries, sometimes (like here) with bits of ham.
209,051 13.8/5 for 17 ratings 56 min.
Source
Home made, but after Gaston Lenôtre.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Thin endive tart, Tarte Normande, Gingerbread, Green asparagus omelette, Alsatian apple tart, ... All |
| Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Kouign-amann, Mushrooms on toast, French style, Fruit crumble, Crackers, Stock-pot fish , ... All |
| Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rabbit civet "à la normande", Finger biscuits, Coconut tuiles, Little lemon biscuits, Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, ... All |
| Milk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Flognarde, Jam doughnuts, New hamburger buns, Pesto crackers, Chocolate tart, ... All |
Other recipes you may also like
![[Creamy risotto with vegetables ]](/images/vignettes_150/215.jpg)
Creamy risotto with vegetables
Risotto is one of the many delights of italian cooking... Here is a version with vegetables cooked separately, and their stock used to cook rice. Delicious, as you will see...95,3865/5 for 1 ratings 2 hours 53 min.
![[Home-made doner kebab]](/images/vignettes_150/389.jpg)
Home-made doner kebab
The kebab is a way of cooking meat that originated in the Middle East (the word means grill or grilled meat in different languages). The doner kebab is made up of slices of meat skewered and grilled vertically. The Turkish version is traditionally served with a yogurt and herb sauce in bread and/or...58,090 15/5 for 2 ratings 2 hours 32 min.
![[Express apple tart]](/images/vignettes_150/11.jpg)
![[Passion fruit jellies]](/images/vignettes_150/18.jpg)
Passion fruit jellies
Usually to make fruit jellies or (fruit "paste"), it's like jam but you need to cook fruit pulp and sugar much longer. Unfortunately, this long cooking is bad for both vitamins and flavour. In this recipe we use a special jam gelling agent, to reduce cooking time as much as possible .86,4344/5 for 8 ratings 2 hours 30 min.
![[4 pears salad with vanilla]](/images/vignettes_150/22.jpg)
4 pears salad with vanilla
It's a very easy recipe, everything depends on the choice of differents kinds of pears all fully ripe, to give a delicious contrast in the mouth.62,1154.2/5 for 20 ratings 37 min.
News list of cooking-ez.com
Sign up to receive the latest recipes (next batch due to be sent on 2020-04-12)
Note: We'll never share your email with anyone else.
Follow this recipe (as 8 people already do)
If you are interested in this recipe, you can "follow" it, by entering your email address here. You will then receive a notification immediately each time the recipe is modified or a new comment is added. Please note that you will need to confirm this following.Note: We'll never share your email with anyone else.
Alternatively: you can subscribe to the mailing list of cooling-ez.com , you will receive a e-mail for each new recipe published on the site.
Post your comment or question