Chocolate Eclairs

About Chocolate Eclairs

Ingredients

• Cooking chocolate, chopped 200 gms
• Butter 100 gms
• Full cream 100 gms
• Refined flour 1 cup
• Eggs 2 to 3
• Whipped cream 200 gms

How to Make Chocolate Eclairs (Stepwise Photos)

Method

1. Boil 1 cup water in a non-stick pan, add butter and let it melt.
2. To prepare ganache, take full cream in another non-stick pan and bring it to a boil.
3. Take chocolate in a bowl, add the boiling full cream and stir continuously till well blended.
4. Preheat oven to 180º C.
5. Add flour to water-butter mixture and mix till the mixture gets rough pastry consistency.
6. Transfer into another bowl, add eggs and beat the mixture till all the ingredients blend well. Transfer this mixture into a piping bag.
7. Pipe rectangles on a greased baking tray, keep the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 20-25 minutes.
8. Fill another piping bag with whipped cream.
9. Take the tray out, slit them horizontally in the centre without cutting through, pipe in the whipped cream.
10. Dip the eclairs in the chocolate ganache and arrange them on a serving platter and serve.

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Chaitrali Deshmukh

Thank you for the amazing instructions.

I have success w/ my dosa but does not last long stored in the refrigerator.

Maybe I am fermenting for too long, or add the salt before the rise?

I also was wondering if it is important to blend separately or can it be blended all together?

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Chef Saransh Goila

Hi Chaitrali,
Yes, cut down the fermentation time and add salt only to the required portion at the time of making the dosa. Also storing in smaller containers just enough for a day helps. Once the batter in a larger container is disturbed (by stirring or scooping out a little etc), I feel it turns sour faster. You can blend them together if you want. But we do it separately because we want the dal batter to become fluffy and the rice batter slightly coarse. Fluffy dal batter makes the dosas light and coarse rice batter makes them extra crispy without making the dosas hard. Hope this helps