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Choux pastry

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, choux pastry means: A cooked flour-and-liquid paste enriched with eggs that expands through steam when baked.

In Turkish: şu hamuru

How it is used

Used for éclairs and profiteroles; the paste is cooked before the eggs are incorporated.

Example sentences

  1. The choux pastry was piped into long éclair shapes.

    The soft paste can be shaped with a piping bag.

  2. Hollow centres formed as the choux pastry baked.

    Steam expansion creates space inside the baked shells.

Common collocations

  • choux pastry shells
  • choux paste
  • bakeTo cook food with dry heat in an oven, especially bread, cakes, pastry, biscuits and dishes covered with a crust or sauce.
  • pastry chefA chef who specialises in desserts, pastries, breads and other baked goods and usually runs the pastry section of a kitchen. Also called a pâtissier.

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