Gougères (Custard Cheese Buns)

Gougeres – custard cheese buns from France, are able to fall in love with you from the first bite! They are so fragrant, soft, large-porous, very, very cheesy and just unrealistically delicious!

Sevings: 4

Summary

Ingredients

• Milk – 220 ml
• Flour – 130 g
• Eggs – 4 pcs.
• Hard cheese – 100 g
• Butter – 4 tbsp
• Granular mustard – 1 teaspoon
• Salt – 1 teaspoon without a slide
• Ground black pepper – to taste

To lubricate the googers:

• Butter – 2 tbsp
• Garlic – 1 clove
• Parsley – a few twigs

Instructions

1. Combine milk and butter in a saucepan or saucepan.
2. Bring milk to a boil, add salt and black pepper. Stir.

   

3. And add all the flour immediately.
4. Keeping a saucepan over low heat, knead to a smooth dough. It is convenient to use a silicone spatula for this.
   You need to boil the dough over the fire for several minutes until it begins to move away from the walls of the dishes.
5. Then transfer the hot dough to a bowl and let it cool for 5 minutes.
6. Now beat four eggs one by one into the choux pastry, kneading the dough thoroughly each time. For this, it is convenient to use a mixer at slow speeds or a kitchen machine with a hook attachment.
7. Grate hard cheese on a coarse grater.
8. Transfer the grated cheese and grainy mustard to the choux pastry bowl.
9. Stir in the additives into the dough until they are evenly distributed.
10. Line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Shape the dough into balls with two teaspoons and place them on a baking sheet, leaving spaces between the buns.
11. Bake the cheese buns in an oven preheated to 220 degrees for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 190 degrees and bake the gouges for another 15 minutes.

    

12. To grease the gouges, melt the butter, add the garlic clove passed through a press and chopped parsley to it.
13. Toss the butter, garlic and parsley.
14. Brush hot gouges with aromatic oil and let the buns cool. Googers are ready!
15. You can serve gougera instead of bread for the first courses, as an appetizer, or take it with you as a snack.

    

Bon Appetit!