Andouille Gougères

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    two dozen

    gougères
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland

By Tanya Holland

Published 2014

  • About

Gougères are sophisticated cheese puffs and are the appetizer of choice in Burgundy, France, where I went to cooking school. They’re made from a base known as pâté à choux, a very elementary dough and one of the first I learned to make. Don’t be intimidated by the fancy French name. Pâté à choux is easy to master and versatile too. It’s the foundation for many famous pastries including éclairs and cream puffs, and as you see here, it also comes in handy for savory treats. For this Cajun-ins