Smoked Salmon Eclairs
Delight your guests with these savoury eclairs
How long will it take?
1 hour 15 minutes
What’s the serving size?
Makes 12 eclairs
What do I need?
- 70 g plain flour
- Pinch of salt
- 125 ml milk
- 50 g salted butter, cubed
- 2 eggs
For the filling
- 150 g cream cheese
- 3 tbsp crème fraiche
- 2 tbsp Johnno’s Sweet Chilli Sauce
- 125 g smoked salmon, cut into strips
- Dill to garnish
How do I make it?
- Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Sift flour with salt in a small bowl. Combine milk and butter in a small saucepan and heat very gently to melt the butter. Do not let the liquid bubble. When butter is melted, turn up the heat and bring to the boil, then turn off heat and tip in flour. Beat with a wooden spoon until a smooth dough forms. Allow to cool for 5 minutes and then beat in eggs, one at a time, until mixture is smooth and shiny.
- Spoon mixture into a piping bag fitted with a 1 centimetre nozzle. Pipe 12 x 8 centimetre eclairs, onto baking tray, leaving plenty of room between each. Turn oven down to 200C and cook for 20 minutes or until golden and puffed.
- Remove from oven and split down the middle while still hot. Set aside to cool
- Make filling by mixing together cream cheese, crème fraiche and sweet chilli sauce in a bowl. Put filling in a clean piping bag and pipe down the middle of each éclair.
- Top eclairs with a strip of smoked salmon and garnish with dill.
