Olive Oil Popovers
Popovers are kinda/sorta one of my favorite things to make. But I’ve always made them with melted butter, and it hadn’t ever really occurred to me to make them with oil. But lately I have had oil on the brain (particularly olive oil). Olive oil in place of the butter is a delicious and workable swap and I hope you’ll give these cuties a try.
Ingredients
- 4 eggs at room temperature
- 1 1/3 cups whole milk at room temperature
- 3 Tbsp olive oil preferably Colavita
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450°F and place a 6-cup popover pan inside of it.
- Combine the eggs, milk and olive oil in a blender and blend for 15 seconds to combine. Add the flour and salt and blend for another 15 seconds, scraping down the sides of the blender, if necessary.
- Remove the hot pan from the oven. Grease it with nonstick spray or brush with olive oil.
- Evenly pour the batter into the cups; each one will be about 2/3 full.
- Bake for 15 minutes and reduce the heat to 350°F and bake for another 15 minutes. Do not open the oven for the entire baking period.
- Remove the popovers from the pan and transfer to a wire rack as soon as you take them from the oven. They should slip out easily, but if they do not, run a small paring knife around the edges of each popover. Jab each one with a small paring knife, to release steam.
- Popovers are best eaten the day they are made and ideally within minutes of being pulled from the oven.