Gougeres French Cheese Puffs - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    5 tablespoons butter
    1 teaspoon salt
    1/4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
    1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
    1 cup water, plus
    1/2 teaspoon water, divided
    1 cup all-purpose flour
    1 cup grated gruyere cheese
    5 large eggs, at room temperature (very important)
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 425.
    Add butter, salt, pepper and nutmeg to 1 cup water in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
    When butter melts, reduce the heat to low.
    Add flour to saucepan all at once and beat with a wooden spoon over low heat for about a minute until mixture pulls away from sides of the pan.
    Remove pan from heat.
    Add cheese to pan and beat with wooden spoon until thoroughly mixed.
    Add 4 eggs, one at a time, beating each into the batter until well mixed before adding the next.
    Continue beating mixture until it is smooth, shiny and firm.
    Drop batter in small spoonfuls onto a lightly greased baking sheet.
    Beat remaining egg with 1/2 tbsp water, then brush tops of uncooked gougeres with egg wash.
    Bake in upper third of the over for 15-20 minutes or until golden and doubled in size.
    Remove from oven serve hot or can be served at room temperature.

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