Diet profiteroles
Description
The recipe won’t take much time. I suggest making diet-friendly profiteroles based on whole-wheat flour, but this is a basic version you can use to come up with many other interesting variations of your own. You can replace the whole-wheat flour with rye, buckwheat, corn, spelt, emmer, and so on. If you have a home mill, you’ll be able to bake profiteroles of almost any kind. You can swap part of the flour for ground flax, use bird cherry flour, add grated cheese, spices, or seeds to make gougères or popovers. Using this basic recipe and a little imagination, you can bake any other version. Of course, depending on the flour, the profiteroles will look different on the outside, but the result is always excellent. For the filling, you can use not only sweet cream but also lightly salted fish, vegetables, roe with cream cheese, salads, and so on. Keep this recipe handy. The baking is done. Serve at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare all ingredients from the list; they should be at room temperature.
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Step 2
Pour water into a small saucepan, add oil, salt and sugar if desired. Bring to a boil.
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Step 3
Pour in all the flour without removing the saucepan from the heat.
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Step 4
Using a wooden spoon, stir the flour thoroughly until it has cooked through properly, then set aside and cool until warm.
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Step 5
Beat in one egg.
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Step 6
Stir until fully blended into the dough and evenly mixed throughout.
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Step 7
Then add another egg and mix in the same way until smooth.
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Step 8
The dough should turn out semi-fluid and sticky.
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Step 9
Using a wet spoon, drop small portions of the dough onto parchment paper and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
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Step 10
Bake the profiteroles at 200 degrees for the first 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 180 and bake for another about 20–25 minutes so the crust sets well and they don’t collapse after baking. Leave the profiteroles in the turned-off oven (without opening the door) for another 10 minutes.
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Step 11
Diet profiteroles are ready. They have a sturdy but not hard crust and a tender moist middle. You can fill them with absolutely any filling.
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Step 12
Take out of the oven and serve warm or cooled.