Cheese soufflé
Cuisine: French
Author: Maria Kalenska
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
Total time: 25 mins


Ingredients
  • 3 eggs
  • 50 g hard cheese, grated
  • For béchamel sauce:
  • 75 ml milk
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • For cheese sauce:
  • 100 ml cream
  • 50 g hard cheese, grated
  • butter for greasing
Cooking method
  1. Heat the oven to 180°C. Gently butter the ramekins with a brush along the entire inner side surface in a vertical movement from bottom to top. This will help distribute the butter so that it does not obstruct the growth of the soufflé.
  2. Cook the béchamel sauce. Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Stir with a whisk and gradually add flour. Constantly stirring, wait for the mixture to simmer, and slowly pour in the milk. Whisk until creamy and remove from heat.
  3. In a large bowl, mix the yolks until smooth. Add béchamel sauce and mix well. Then add cheese and stir.
  4. Beat the whites until stiff. Using a silicone spatula, transfer a portion of the whites into the yolk-cheese mixture and mix gently. Repeat portion by portion until complete.
  5. Fill the ramekins to about two thirds full with the mixture. Bake for 10 minutes.
  6. Cook the cheese sauce. In a saucepan, warm the cream over low heat. Add the cheese and, stirring constantly, let the cheese dissolve completely. Remove the sauce from heat. Serve the soufflé immediately, topped with cheese sauce.
My tips and tricks
The soufflé that you and I have now learned to make is an exquisite breakfast worth waking up a little bit earlier for. When you master all the techniques and it will be very easy for you to make a soufflé, I propose to complicate the task and prepare a soufflé with different fillings: mushrooms, bacon, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, crab meat, salmon, truffle, shallots or chives, and any other that come to mind. The main rule: they should be added to soufflé finely chopped or puréed and pre-cooked, so as to minimize their liquid content. Otherwise, the soufflé may not rise.

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