Bonjour, gourmets! Today we are cooking gougers with cheese! Have you ever heard of such baking? We just found out about it and immediately decided to share with you the recipe for this delicious snack.
Gougers with cheese are ideal as a snack for wine or instead of the usual bread for soup.
What are French gougers
Gouger is a French cheese bun made of custard dough, airy and addictive. This bun looks like profiteroles, but the filling is already inside. It is customary to make dough from cheese, but you can also add pieces of fried bacon, lightly salted salmon, hot chili pepper to the dough for lovers of savory snacks.
Gouger dough is made from simple ingredients that are always in your refrigerator: butter, eggs and cheese. The base of the dough is a mixture of water, butter and flour. The custard dough turns out creamy and thick, it’s hard to knead it with a wooden spatula. When you knead such a custard dough, your hand gets tired of intense movements.
How to cook French cheese gougers
Ingredients for custard dough
• Water
• Flour
• Cheddar cheese
• Butter
• Salt
• Ground black pepper
• Dried thyme
• Chicken egg
The process of making French cheese buns
In a saucepan, we took 2 liters of water, mix water, salt and butter.
Bring the mixture to a boil in a saucepan at maximum temperature.
Reduce the heat to a minimum.
Add all the flour to the saucepan. Mix intensively until a thick mass is formed.
Remove the saucepan from the heat and add one egg to the dough. Stir until creamy.
Repeat the previous step with the remaining eggs.
Add thyme, ground black pepper and cheese to the dough. Mix the dough until smooth.
Put the dough on parchment paper on a baking sheet. Should fit on a baking sheet 25 blanks for buns.
Put the baking sheet in the oven at 220 ° C (428 ° F), so that the dough would grab on the outside.
Reduce the oven temperature and bake for a little more than 20 minutes.