Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, gougeres (cheese puffs with ham). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A gougère (pronounced [ɡuʒɛʁ]), in French cuisine, is a baked savory choux pastry made of choux dough mixed with cheese. 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!
Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook gougeres (cheese puffs with ham) using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham):
- Get gougeres:
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Prepare 1 stick butter, unsalted
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 cup all purpose flour, sifted
- Get 4 eggs
- Take 1 cup finely grated cheese, like sharp cheddar or gruyere
- Take 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- Prepare 1 pinch cayenne pepper
- Take 1 pinch black pepper
- Make ready Ham filling
- Get 1/2 8oz tub cream cheese
- Get 1/4 cup soured cream
- Prepare 1 cup chopped cooked ham or gammon
- Prepare 1 tsp low salt vegetable bullion powder (I used Marigold brand)
- Make ready 1/4 tsp English mustard powder
- Take 1 dash white pepper
Gougeres are French Cheese Puffs served with pre dinner cocktails, as finger food at parties, and in place of boring bread rolls to dunk into soups and. 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).
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.
Cheese gougères are essentially French cheese puffs. They are great to serve as an alternative to dinner rolls or as a tasty appetizer. Gougères should be crispy on the outside and soft and. Cheese Puffs - quick and easy Gougeres recipe for puffy, light and airy French cheesy puffs. Loaded with mozzarella and parmesan cheese, so good!
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