Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
Choux pastry is used for making profiteroles, eclairs and other small pastries.
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Last modified on: February 13th 2022
Keywords for this recipe:ChouxChoux pastryPastryFor 400 g, you will need:
- 1
60 ml milk - 2
60 ml water - 3
60 g butter - 4
75 g flour - 5
110 g egg ( How to... ) - 6
2 g fine (or table) salt - 7
4 g caster sugar - 8
100 g Craquelin (sweet cracker dough) (optional) - Total weight: 471 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 21 min. | 43 min. | 1 hour 4 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
Stage 2 - 5 min.
Pour 60 ml milk and 60 ml water into a pan, add 60 g butter, 2 g fine (or table) salt and 4 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 75 g flour.
Stage 6 - 1 min.
Put pan on low heat, and stir dough for one minute to dry it.
Stage 7 - 2 min.
By hand
Pour the ball into a small bowl.
Stage 8 - 5 min.
Pour beaten eggs step by step...
Stage 9
...and whisk to mix.
Stage 10
Stage 11
Your handmade choux pastry is ready.
Stage 12
With a mixer
Pour the ball into the bowl of a mixer.
Stage 13
Start up at minimum speed.
Stage 14
Gently pour the eggs into the bowl of the mixer while it is moving, until completely incorporated.
Stage 15
Increase the speed of the mixer a little and continue beating for a minute or two to aerate the dough a little.
Stage 16
Your choux pastry mixer made is ready.
Stage 17 - 3 min.
Stage 18 - 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 19
If you're not easy with forcing bag, you may have unwanted small peaks on top of choux
Stage 20
In this case, flat the peak using a teaspoon soaked in milk...
Stage 21
...to get a well rounded top.
Stage 22
Other solution, use craquelin (sweet cracker dough) which give a real professional look.
Stage 23 - 30 min.
Cooking
Put in 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
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.
Keeping
Choux pastry cooked: several hours.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,268 Kcal or 5,309 Kj | 27 gr | 120 gr | 95 gr |
| 63 % | 10 % | 11 % | 14 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 269 Kcal or 1,126 Kj | 6 gr | 25 gr | 20 gr |
| 13 % | 2 % | 2 % | 3 % |
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Source
Home made, but after Gaston Lenôtre.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cherry clafoutis, Hachis parmentier, Chocolate sweetcrust pastry, Little chocolate and hazelnut fondants, Hamburgers, ... All |
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Grated potato cakes, Tomato tatin, Cod loin with saffron, Caramelized apple rice pudding, Chocolate almond cookies, ... All |
 | Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Panettone, Soup Cornouaillaise, Langoustine sabayon tart, Pumpkin (or potimarron) soup, Pizza dough, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Autumn apple and plum crumble pie, Caramelized pear custard tart, Clarified butter, Sausage mushroom and cheese crumble, Filo leeks and cheese tart, ... All |
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