Healthy eclairs
Description
The pastries are easy and quick to make. Healthy éclairs offer great scope for culinary creativity, because you can experiment with the filling and the decoration. Follow the recipe and everything will turn out well. The pastries are ready. Serve at the table.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for making healthy éclairs according to the recipe list.
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Step 2
Pour milk and water into a saucepan or sauté pan with a thick bottom, add salt and vegetable oil, place over medium heat, and bring to a boil.
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Step 3
Add all the flour at once and, stirring vigorously, dry the dough for 3–4 minutes.
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Step 4
The finished dough should gather into a ball and begin to stick lightly to the bottom. Remove the dough from the heat and let it cool slightly.
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Step 5
Beat three large eggs in a bowl.
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Step 6
Gradually beat the eggs into the dough, adding each egg only after the previous one has been fully incorporated.
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Step 7
The finished batter should be runny and slide smoothly off the silicone spatula in a triangular shape. If three eggs are not enough, add a little more egg until you reach the desired consistency.
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Step 8
If small lumps have formed in the batter, as in the photo above, switch the mixer’s whisk attachment to a whisk for beating and beat until smooth.
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Step 9
Transfer the dough to a piping bag and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
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Step 10
After 30 minutes, pipe the éclairs onto a baking sheet. Preheat the oven to top-and-bottom heat at 200 degrees. As soon as you have placed the baking tray in the oven, lower the temperature to 180 degrees and bake for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 140 degrees and bake for about 55–60 minutes more.
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Step 11
While the éclairs are baking, prepare the filling cream.
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Step 12
Beat cream cheese (or ricotta) with honey (or Jerusalem artichoke syrup) added, and add 1 tsp. vanilla paste.
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Step 13
Beat until fluffy and the ingredients are combined.
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Step 14
Transfer the cream to a piping bag and refrigerate briefly to stabilize.
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Step 15
Cool the finished éclairs on a wire rack until completely cooled.
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Step 16
Make two holes in the bottom of each eclair for piping in the filling.
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Step 17
Make a small cut in the piping bag and, through the openings, fill the éclair with the filling in sequence.
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Step 18
Place the filled éclairs in the refrigerator for a while to chill before applying the chocolate glaze.
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Step 19
Prepare the ingredients for the final decoration of the éclairs — dark chocolate, 1 tsp. vegetable oil, and optionally freeze-dried berries (raspberry).
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Step 20
Melt the chocolate in the microwave in several short bursts, stirring between each, and add 1 tsp. vegetable oil.
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Step 21
Dip the top of the éclair in chocolate glaze and decorate with freeze-dried berries. Place on a rack until the chocolate sets.
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Step 22
Place the éclairs on a rack to set the chocolate.
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Step 23
If desired, you can place the éclairs in paper capsules.
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Step 24
Traditional cross-section of an éclair filled with cream. It looks no different from classic éclairs.
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Step 25
Delicious and healthy eclairs are ready; they are sure not to disappoint lovers of these tasty pastries, because they are made without sugar, without added animal fats, and with wholesome whole-grain flour.