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Great recipe for Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham). Perfect for parties, when you can use this recipe to make up to forty small gougeres. I made twenty medium sized gougeres here.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have gougeres (cheese puffs with ham) using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham):
- Take gougeres:
- Get 1 cup water
- Take 1 stick butter, unsalted
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 cup all purpose flour, sifted
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Prepare 1 cup finely grated cheese, like sharp cheddar or gruyere
- Make ready 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- Get 1 pinch cayenne pepper
- Make ready 1 pinch black pepper
- Make ready Ham filling
- Take 1/2 8oz tub cream cheese
- Get 1/4 cup soured cream
- Make ready 1 cup chopped cooked ham or gammon
- Get 1 tsp low salt vegetable bullion powder (I used Marigold brand)
- Take 1/4 tsp English mustard powder
- Make ready 1 dash white pepper
They are crunchy on the outside and soft in the inner centre, plus they are hollow making them super light. You can always add your favourite filling, although it's not. Light, airy, cheese puffs are a versatile addition to a meal or appetizer plate. Even bigger, they can be split and filled with ham, chicken, tuna salad, or even more cheese!
Instructions to make Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham):
- Whiz all the filling ingredients in a food processor until very smooth
- Put filling mixture in a bowl, cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least an hour until you need it. The longer you chill it, the firmer and easier to pipe it will be.
- Heat the oven to 375F/190C
- Line two baking trays with baking paper.
- Put the water, butter and salt in a saucepan, turn on the heat underneath and bring to a boil, melting the butter.
- When boiling, take the pan off the heat and immediately add all the flour, stirring really well until the mixtute comes away from the sides
- Add one egg, mix in real well, then repeat for each egg
- Put the mixture in a mixing bowl, add the other ingredients and stir well again.
- Put mixture into a piping bag (I used a clean square plastic bag, cut into a triangle, bottom corner to top corner diagonally, with one corner cut) and pipe desired number of gougeres evenly spaced on the baking sheets.
- Bake at 375F/190C for 10 minutes, then drop the temperature to 350F/180C for a further 15-20 minutes
- Remove to cooling racks and allow to cool
- To fill, either make holes and pipe the ham mixture in, or split them and spoon it in.
These are easier to make than the recipe sounds, yet the result looks impressive enough that you can. These cheese puffs are made with cheddar cheese and a little bit of thyme. You could add crumbled bacon to the mix, or use sage or rosemary. You could use goat cheese instead of cheddar, or Gruyere or Emmenthaler (more traditional for a gougère). Gougeres (French Cheese Puffs) - terrific appetizer / finger food for paries, or for dunking into soups!
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