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:For 400 g, you will need:
- 1
1⁄3 cup milk - 2
1⁄3 cup water - 3
1⁄3 cup butter - 4
½ cup flour - 5
½ cup egg ( How to... ) - 6
½ teaspoon fine (or table) salt - 7
1 teaspoon caster sugar - 8
½ cup Craquelin (sweet cracker dough) (optional)
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 1⁄3 cup milk and 1⁄3 cup water into a pan, add 1⁄3 cup butter, ½ teaspoon fine (or table) salt and 1 teaspoon caster sugar.
Stage 3 - 7 min.
Heat on medium heat until butter is completely melted.
Stage 4 - 1 min.
Remove pan from heat, and ½ cup 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.
Source
Home made, but after Gaston Lenôtre.
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 |
| 342 Kcal or 1,432 Kj | 7 gr | 32 gr | 26 gr |
| 17 % | 3 % | 3 % | 4 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 400 g : 0.89 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
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This recipe uses (among others)
 | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crab Cakes, Lime crémeux, Caribbean upside-down cake, Moist Lemon Cake, Arizona cupcakes, ... All |
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Leek and tuna loaf, "Moelleux" cake batter, Sweet pastry, Almond mug cake for Mary, Chocolate mug cake, ... All |
 | Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Sesame fried scampi, French baguettes, Eggs meurette, Nachos, "Buttonhole" quail eggs, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pan-baked hash brown (Hash-brown casserole), Celeriac and sesame soup, Mushroom bourguignon, Shiitake eggs, Chilli chicken and spinach gratin, ... All |
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