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Pets de nonne

Name: Pets de nonne
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 100 fritters
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 400 g choux pastry (pâte à choux); 2 tablespoons caster sugar

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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Duration

45 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: June 18^th 2014

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

For 100 fritters, you will need:

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

Times for this recipe

Preparation

40 min.

Cooking

5 min.

All in all

45 min.

Preparation 40 min.

Cooking 5 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

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	25 g RDI=39 %	118 g RDI=45 %	88 g RDI=121 %	278 kcal RDI=14 %	1,165 kJ RDI=14 %
Per fritters	1 g RDI=2 %	5 g RDI=2 %	3 g RDI=5 %	11 kcal RDI=1 %	50 kJ RDI=1 %
Whole recipe	108 g RDI=166 %	510 g RDI=192 %	380 g RDI=521 %	1,196 kcal RDI=60 %	5,007 kJ RDI=60 %