French In A Flash: Apple And Pear Beignets With Vanilla Bean Sugar Recipe

• 1 cup water
• 1 stick unsalted butter
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• Pinch salt
• 1 cup flour
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 golden delicious apple, finely diced
• 1/2 Anjou pear, finely diced
• Vegetable oil for frying
• 1/2 cup sugar
• The seeds of 1 vanilla bean

1. Begin with the choux pastry: bring the water and butter and sugar and salt to a boil. Take the pan off the heat, and add the flour in all at once-stir vigorously with a wooden spoon. Lower the heat to low, and set the pan back on the heat. Stir for less than a minute until the dough comes away from the side of the pan. Turn the dough out into a bowl, and allow it to cool just slightly. Stir in the eggs, one at a time, until they are fully absorbed in the dough. Finally, stir in the apple and pear.
2. Meanwhile, heat a sauce pot halfway full with vegetable oil. Test the temperature with a drop of dough: the dough should sink, start to bubble, and slowly rise to the top.
3. Use two teaspoons to drop little beignets into the oil. They will take from 5-8 minutes to cook-you want them pale golden, puffed, and split (cooked choux pastry will develop a "scar" on the side when it puffs). Drain on a paper towel, and toss with vanilla sugar (recipe follows).
4. Scrape the vanilla bean into the sugar and mix!

water, butter, sugar, salt, flour, eggs, golden delicious apple, pear, vegetable oil, sugar, vanilla bean

Taken from www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/12/french-in-a-flash-apple-and-pear-beignets-with-vanilla-bean-sugar-recipe.html (may not work)