Potato Puffballs, or Pommes Dauphine

Here is one of our favourite ways of eating potatoes with a big meal, like the Christmas lunch. Puffballs are deep fried balls of potato and choux pastry mix - they are light and very tasty, here's how to make them.

We'd eaten this recipe for 40 years at my folks' before we discovered the "proper" name for them is "Pommes Dauphine", and they were quite popular in Eastern Europe too.

Step 1: First collect the ingredients

1lb, or 450 gms of mashed potatoes
1/4 pint 145mL of water
3 eggs (1 yolk and  2 whole eggs)
2.5 oz (71g) of plain "all purpose" flour.
3 oz (85g) of butter (1 oz and 2oz)

Comments

[totor4]

The name of this recipe is not "Pommes Dauphinois" but "Pommes Dauphines", there is another recipe based potatoes called "Gratin Dauphinois".
Bon appétit !

[steveastrouk]

Thanks ! Corrected. We picked the name up from the ancient cookery book we found the recipe in.

[steveastrouk]

In fact,
Merci Beaucoup pour votre assistance.

Steve

[paganwonder]

I remember these from the cart vendors in the Plaza de Armas in Arequipa!  Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this 'ible - "May blessings rain down upon your house"!

[l8nite]

these look and sound delishious! The additions could be endless, bacon, cheese, peppers... the imagination runs wild.... Thanks 4 the tasty inspiration

[lemonie]

I'm suprised that I never heard of these before now. But brown & crispy has my attention.

L

[caitlinsdad]

I will have to try this.  This would be lighter than the standard potato croquette which is just a fried breaded lump of mashed potatoes.

[steveastrouk]

Yes, that's the point, with everything else on the plate, potatoes take too much room inside !

[RavingMadStudios]

Wow, these look amazing. If I hadn't already started cooking our Christmas Roast Beast Feast, I'd totally make this instead of the Roasted Garlic & Cream Cheese Mashed Potatoes we're having.

I wonder how they'd work with a little grated cheddar & crumbled bacon added in....

[steveastrouk]

Yep, I should add that to the instructable.

Have a good Christmas.

Steve

[RavingMadStudios]

Merry Christmas to you, too. Take care.