06
Jul
09

Chocolate souffle

We dont do souffles very often here. Heres our effort to add another simple recipe of chocolate souffle to our very restricted repertoire.

Ingredients:

  • 1T or 12 gms Butter
  • 2T  12 gms APF
  • 1/4Cor 60 ml milk
  • 40 gms Castor sugar
  • 1 ½ Egg yolk
  • 1 ½ Egg white
  • 30 gms unsweetened chocolate or 2T cocoa
  • 30 ml milk

chcolate-souffle

Method:

  • Set oven at 180 deg.C
  • Melt butter in a saucepan, stir in maida and cook for 1-2 mins.
  • Gradually add the milk, stirring constantly and bring to a boil. Cool for 2-3 mins till thick. Remove from heat.
  • Stir in the unsweetened chocolate or cocoa mixed with 30 ml milk. Add this to the maida-milk mixture.
  • Allow this mixture to cool slightly and beat in the egg yolk.
  • Whisk the egg white separately till stiff. Fold the egg white into the cocoa-egg yolk mixture gently.
  • Spoon into a oven proof dish and bake at 180 deg.C for 20 mins.
  • Serve immediately as the soufflé sinks when removed from the oven.

choco-souffle

Source: Basic food preparation

Notes: Just like the last souffle, this too is a hot souffle that sinks really fast once its out of the oven. Other than that there isnt anything I have against this simple to make, no frills  souffle. I dont know if there is a way to keep the souffle from collapsing, besides serving it straight out of the oven! I used to think I do something wrong that makes my souffles sink but whatever little literature I have read on it (including referring to good old wikipedia), tells me all souffles sink a few minutes after they leave the oven. .. even if you do everything right. So it isnt me afterall!! If you have a pretty ramekin to bake and serve in, use it. I dont, so I spooned it out of the vessel and served it on a plate.

This recipe serves 1-2. Double or triple up as per your requirements.


7 Responses to “Chocolate souffle”


  1. July 6, 2009 at 2:47 pm

    I know we dont get souffles in india much, atleast i rarely see them! Kudos to you for making it at home and chocolate is my fav:)

  2. July 6, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    hey mandira
    Now now this is a sinful temptation …..anything with chocolate is just so iresistable :) Thanks for the recipe….the foot notes are really of great help…u look the minutest details of a preparation dear….hats off :)
    TC

  3. July 7, 2009 at 10:29 pm

    Mandira…that looks good..but one doubt aren’t’ souffles supposed to be more like that jelly consistency?..

  4. July 8, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    @parita-no we dont..thats why we try and make them at home!

    @suparna-sinful but the calories arent too many! so u can indulge-guiltfree!!

    @srivalli-i am tempted to say “not the ones we make at home!” but no, thats not the answer.. i am no expert on this subject, but i think u are confusing it with mousse.. thats the creamy, jelly like desert(that sometimes uses gelatin) that we find more easily in india than the souffle.

  5. 5 homecooked
    July 31, 2009 at 2:58 am

    Hmmm…who cares if it sinks when its chocolate ;) But it looks pretty enough to me. Was this pic taken as soon as you removed from the vessel?

  6. July 31, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    @HC- nope.. it wasnt taken as soon as it was out of the oven.. it sank…therefore it was spooned out n served on a plate!! :)


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