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Choux Pastry Fritters "Ambrosi"

4 servings

Ingredients

• 0.25 L Milk
• 50 g butter
• 1 Prise Salt
• 250 g Flour (all-purpose)
• 3 Stk Eggs
• 2 Stk Egg yolk
• Vanilla sugar (nach Bedarf)
• 1 Stamperl Rum
• Lemon zest (grated) (nach Bedarf)
• Fat (for roasting) (nach Bedarf)
• Strawberry jam (nach Bedarf)
• Powdered sugar (nach Bedarf)
• chocolate sauce (nach Bedarf)

Instructions

1. Stir boiling milk with butter and a pinch of salt, add flour all at once and continue stirring on the stove until the mixture pulls away from the pot bottom.
2. Mix the slightly cooled dough gradually with 2–3 eggs and egg yolk, vanilla sugar, rum, and finely grated lemon zest.
3. Using a tablespoon, place ball-shaped portions into sufficiently medium-hot fat and slowly fry until light brown on all sides.
4. Remove, fill with strawberry jam and dust with powdered sugar.
5. Serve with warm chocolate sauce.

Based on a cookbook by Hans Hofer (1964), adapted with AI.