How to Make Goat Cheese Profiteroles
Most people know profiteroles as a cream-filled dessert, but this recipe turns them into one truly tasty appetizer.
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You Will Need
- 0.5 c water
- 0.5 c milk
- Half a stick of butter
- 0.5 c all-purpose flour
- A heavy, 1- to 2-quart pot
- 4.0 eggs
- 0.25 c roasted garlic
- 11.0 oz fresh goat cheese
- An 11-by-17-inch sheet tray
- Some parchment paper
- 2.0 piping or pastry bags
- 1.0 tsp chopped fresh thyme leaves
- 1.0 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
- Some salt and pepper
- A wooden spoon
- An oven
- A paring knife
Steps
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Step 1
Preheat oven
Preheat your oven to 350°.
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Step 2
Combine the basic ingredients
Combine the basic ingredients. Add half a cup of water, half a cup of milk, and half a stick of butter to your pot and bring it to a boil.
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Step 3
Add flour
Add half a cup of all-purpose flour to the pot.
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Step 4
Stir
Stir vigorously with a wooden spoon until the flour has absorbed all the liquid.
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Step 5
Remove pot from heat
Remove the pot from the heat. Keep stirring to allow steam to escape.
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Step 6
Mix in eggs
Mix in four eggs.
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Step 7
Spoon dough into pastry bag
Spoon the dough into a pastry bag.
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If you don’t have a pastry bag, fill a self-sealing plastic bag and cut off one corner.
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Step 8
Secure parchment paper
Secure the parchment paper to the sheet pan by putting a small dot of dough in the four corners of your pan and then laying the parchment paper in place.
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Step 9
Pipe dough onto the paper
Pipe the dough onto the paper.
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Step 10
Put the pan into the oven
Put the pan into the oven.
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Step 11
Mix the filling
Mix the filling. Add 11 ounces of fresh goat cheese (at room temperature), about a quarter cup of roasted garlic, a teaspoon of chopped fresh thyme leaves, and a tablespoon of chopped fresh parsley to a bowl. Mix the ingredients together, using your spoon to crush the garlic. Add salt and pepper to taste.
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Step 12
Spoon filling into pastry bag
Spoon the filling into a pastry bag.
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Step 13
Remove profiteroles from oven
Remove the pan from the oven. Allow the profiteroles to cool for 10 minutes.
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Step 14
Fill the profiteroles
Fill the profiteroles by inserting the tip of your pastry bag into the center of the profiterole and squeezing in your goat cheese filling.
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Step 15
Serve and enjoy
Serve and enjoy!
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In 1998, bakers in Athens made a profiterole that weighed 4½ tons and required 1,800 eggs.
