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Chouquettes

Name: Chouquettes
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1/2 cup water; 1/2 cup milk; 7 tbsp butter; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 tsp sugar; 1 1/4 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 4 plus 1 for glazing (use half) egg; 1/2 cup pearl sugar

Hollow little choux puffs studded with crunchy pearl sugar. French bakery popcorn.

50 minTime

8 gProtein each

mildSpice

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Grandma's wayThe original. Handle with reverence.

The original

337kcal

8 gprotein

1 gfibre

50minutes

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table. Grandma's way is the starting point the other versions are compared with.

Ingredients

Water½ cup

Milk½ cup

Butter7 tbsp

Salt½ tsp

Sugar2 tsp

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1¼ cups

Egg4, plus 1 for glazing (use half)

Pearl sugar½ cup

Method

5 steps

1Heat the oven to 190 C. Bring the water, milk, butter, salt and sugar to a boil.
2Tip in the maida all at once and stir hard over low heat for 2 minutes.
3Cool 5 minutes, then beat in 4 eggs one at a time until glossy.
4Pipe 3 cm balls on lined trays, brush with beaten egg and cover generously with pearl sugar. Tip off the excess.
5Bake 20 to 25 minutes without opening the oven door for the first 15.

Serve it like this

Tip warm chouquettes into a paper bag or bowl and serve in a heap with hot chocolate or coffee.

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