Any Grain Fritter Base Recipe

Name: Any Grain Fritter Base Recipe
Ingredients: 3 oz [85 g] butter; Neutral oil, for frying; 2 oz [60 g] hard cheese, grated (optional); 1 Tbsp chopped parsley (optional); 3 eggs; 1 cup [200 g] any boiled grain; 1½ tsp salt; 1 cup [120 g] all-purpose flour

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Grist

By Abra Berens

Published 2021

About

This is my go-to choux dough recipe. Without the grains, it makes great gougères or can be piped and baked into large buns for deliciously decadent sandwiches.

Ingredients

3 oz [85 g] butter
1½ tsp salt

Snack
Vegetarian

Method

In a medium saucepan, bring ¾ cup [180 ml] of water and the butter and salt to a boil. When the butter is melted and the water boiling, add the flour and stir, stir, stir over medium heat to make a ball of dough. Keep cooking until the flour smells a bit cooked and starts to stick to the bottom of the pan, about 2 minutes.

Remove from the heat and transfer the ball to a stand mixer (or