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Warm Crab Choux Bites
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Ingredients
- subheading: Choux pastry:
- 65ml water
- 55ml full-fat milk
- 50g butter, unsalted, cut into cubes
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- generous pinch of cayenne pepper
- generous pinch of chilli powder (optional)
- 75g strong plain flour
- 2 large eggs: they don’t need to be beaten first
- 1 heaped teaspoon Dijon or grain mustard
- 30g Cheddar cheese, grated (or use any other cheese of preference: Gruyère is particuarly wonderful )
- subheading: To finish the choux:
- egg-wash (beaten egg yolk with a splash of milk)
- light dusting of cayenne or a grinding of black pepper
- subheading: Filling:
- about 250g fresh white crab meat
- 4 to 5 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 clove garlic, crushed well
- pinch of fine sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- generous pinch of cayenne pepper
- a few chopped fresh chives
- juice of about half a lemon
- (1) Preheat the oven to 190C (fan) and line a baking sheet with greaseproof paper.
- (2) Heat the water, milk, butter and salt in a saucepan gently until the butter is melted. Turn up the heat and, crucially, bring to the boil.
- (3) Once the water has come to the boil add the flour and mix well until the mixture pulls away from the sides into a smooth ball. Turn down the heat and keep beating for another minute or two. Remove from the heat and let it cool for a couple of minutes.
- (4) Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the mustard, cayenne, chilli powder and the cheese and mix in well. I find it is easier with a wooden spoon rather than a hand-mixer. The paste will feel quite slippery to begin with - almost curdled in appearance - but after just a little beating it will become smooth and glossy.
- (5) Put the choux pastry into a piping bag, cut the end off to give up to 1cm diameter, and pipe small mounds of pastry onto the greaseproof, ensuring they are well spaced. Instead of piping you can place barely teaspoons (not heaped) of the pastry onto the greaseproof.
Steps
Directions at philshomekitchen.org
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