La Gougère aux Primeurs au Beurre Vert

Choux Ring with Baby Vegetables and Green Butter

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Recipes from a French Herb Garden

By Geraldene Holt

Published 1999

  • About

In Burgundy the traditional accompaniment to a glass of Beaujolais is the cheese choux pastry known as la Gougère. Sometimes the pastry is cooked in small heaps that swell up during baking to resemble a cabbage - hence choux, or cabbage, pastry – or, as in this dish, the paste is shaped into a ring that puffs up so dramatically in the oven that the inside becomes hollow. Usually this hollow is filled with a savory sauce containing meat or cheese. But best of all, I think, is a