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Pets de nonne

These small fritters are like mini doughnuts: they're simply made with choux pastry dough, then tossed in a little sugar.

[Translator's note: their amusing French name literally means "nun's farts". So, maybe we'll leave it French...].

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Last modified on: June 18^th 2014

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For 100 fritters, you will need:

1 400 g Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
2 2 tablespoons caster sugar
Total weight: 430 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
40 min.	5 min.	45 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 30 min.

Prepare 400 g Choux pastry (pâte à choux).

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Transfer the dough to a forcing bag. If you don't have one, use a plastic bag and cut off one corner.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Heat the oil 320°F (160°C).

Press on the forcing bag and squeeze out the dough to the size of a walnut, then cut this off with a knife.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

When the dough falls into the hot oil it will sink to the bottom at first, then rise back up to the top.

Stage 5

Turn the pets de nonne so that they brown evenly.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Remove them from the oil with a skimmer and place on absorbant paper.

Sprinkle a little sugar on top and they're ready.

Remarks

It its important to keep the oil temperature relatively low. If it is too hot, the outside browns rapidly, leaving the inside uncooked.

Keeping

A few hours.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
412 Kcal or 1,725 Kj	28 gr	158 gr	104 gr
21 %	11 %	15 %	16 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
96 Kcal or 402 Kj	7 gr	37 gr	24 gr
5 %	3 %	3 %	4 %

Per fritters
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
4 Kcal or 17 Kj	< 1 gr	2 gr	1 gr
0 %	<1 %	<1 %	<1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Gluten, Egg

How much will it cost?

For 100 fritters : 1.06 €
Per fritters : 0.01 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Choux pastry (pâte à choux): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Valay-Brest, Saint Honoré cake, Profiteroles, Paris-Brest, Mini Mont-Blanc choux puffs, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pear and lime meringue pie, Prune Far, Nachos, Panettone, Profiteroles, ... All

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