Easy Recipe: Delicious Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham)

Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham). Combine water, butter, and salt in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Light, airy, cheese puffs are a versatile addition to a meal or appetizer plate. Larger, they pair well with beer or wine.

Perfect for parties, when you can use this recipe to make up to forty small gougeres. I made twenty medium sized gougeres here. This recipe has been adapted from two recipes for gougeres, one from Florence Fabricant in The NewYork Times, and one. You can have Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham) using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham)

1. Prepare of gougeres:.
2. You need 1 cup of water.
3. Prepare 1 stick of butter, unsalted.
4. It's 1 tsp of salt.
5. Prepare 1 cup of all purpose flour, sifted.
6. It's 4 of eggs.
7. It's 1 cup of finely grated cheese, like sharp cheddar or gruyere.
8. You need 1/2 cup of grated parmesan.
9. It's 1 pinch of cayenne pepper.
10. It's 1 pinch of black pepper.
11. It's of Ham filling.
12. It's 1/2 of 8oz tub cream cheese.
13. It's 1/4 cup of soured cream.
14. You need 1 cup of chopped cooked ham or gammon.
15. You need 1 tsp of low salt vegetable bullion powder (I used Marigold brand).
16. Prepare 1/4 tsp of English mustard powder.
17. You need 1 dash of white pepper.

Gougeres are French cheese puffs made with a choux pastry and loaded with cheese. Gougere is my favorite recipe to bake when I crave for cheesy puffs. These little packages are so good and addictive. Loaded with two types of cheese: mozzarella and Parmesan cheese.

Gougeres (Cheese Puffs With Ham) instructions

1. Whiz all the filling ingredients in a food processor until very smooth.
2. 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..
3. Heat the oven to 375F/190C.
4. Line two baking trays with baking paper..
5. Put the water, butter and salt in a saucepan, turn on the heat underneath and bring to a boil, melting the butter..
6. 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.
7. Add one egg, mix in real well, then repeat for each egg.
8. Put the mixture in a mixing bowl, add the other ingredients and stir well again..
9. 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..
10. Bake at 375F/190C for 10 minutes, then drop the temperature to 350F/180C for a further 15-20 minutes.
11. Remove to cooling racks and allow to cool.
12. To fill, either make holes and pipe the ham mixture in, or split them and spoon it in..

They are packed with wonderful aroma, flavorful and delicious. Oh so French, gougères are savory cheese puffs made from pâte à choux, or cream-puff dough, with a generous amount of cheese folded in. Slightly warm with a crisp shell and a cheesy, pillowy interior, they are the perfect little bite to pop in your mouth between sips of sparkling wine or cocktails. Combine butter, water, cayenne and kosher salt in a heavy metal saucepan; bring to a boil over high heat. Store in the refrigerator and bring to room temperature before serving.