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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

For 100 fritters, you will need:

1 400 ml Choux pastry (pâte à choux)
2 2 tablespoons caster sugar

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Time required

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

Keeping:

A few hours.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 30 min.

Prepare 400 ml 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.

Nutritional information

% 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).

How much will it cost?

For 100 fritters : 1.35 €
Per fritters : 0.01 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made.

More recipes?

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: Gougères, Profiteroles, Valay-Brest, Saint Honoré cake, Chouquettes, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Strawberry feuilleté, Passion fruit jellies, Gravlax, Pistachio custard tart, Almond mug cake for Mary, ... All

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