Crepes, crepes or crepes (from the French "crêpe") are a kind of pancakes of French origin that are used as a base for sweet or savory dishes and, therefore, the recipe for crepes serves both to make a starter or a Main dish as a filling breakfast or an easy and delicious dessert.
The most delicious crepes recipe
To make them, you have to prepare a mixture based on flour, eggs and milk, which ( unlike pancakes) is almost liquid and is cooked over medium heat. Here is the easiest and most delicious crepe recipe.
Ingredients:
For 4 people: 125 g of flour - 2 eggs - 225 ml of milk - 20 g of butter + 1 tablespoon for greasing (or olive oil) - 1 teaspoon of sugar (if you are going to make them sweet) - ½ teaspoon of salt .
- 1. Mix the flour, salt and sugar in a bowl.
- 2. Add the beaten eggs together with half of the milk and mix with a few rods.
- 3. Add the rest of the milk little by little and incorporate the 20 g of melted butter.
- 4. Mix well and chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
- 5. Grease a pan with the tablespoon of butter or olive oil and heat it.
- 6. Pour a ladle of the dough, spread it evenly and cook over low heat for 1 to 2 minutes on each side.
- 7. Remove it and repeat the operation until the dough is used up.
Tricks to get the most out of your crepes
- Sweet or savory. Fill them with sweet ingredients (jam, honey, chocolate, fruit …) or salty (ham and cheese, meat and vegetables, salad …).
- Customize the dough. If you are going to make them sweet, you can sweeten and flavor the dough with vanilla or cinnamon, for example. And if you are going to make them salty, you can do without the sugar and add other spices and aromatic herbs. You can also add a little cocoa powder if you want to make crepes with chocolate incorporated into the dough.
- Minimal version. If you are going to drink them alone, one option is to add a little more sugar (or even vanilla sugar), orange or lemon zest, or a couple of tablespoons of the liquor that you like best to the dough. Or once done, sprinkle a little brown sugar and sprinkle with lemon juice. Like this, I love them.
- To keep them warm. While you make them, go stacking them on a plate that you have put on a saucepan with hot water and cover them with another plate.
- Endless presentations. You can fold them in half or in quarters (forming triangles); roll them up and serve them as is or make mini rolls by cutting this roll as if it were a sausage; make bags using the crepe as a base and a strip of chives or a toothpick to tie them or any other presentation you can think of.
- Suitable utensils. Make sure that the pan you use is really non-stick (it is one of the main reasons why crepes do not turn out well) or use a crepe maker. And remember that the first crepe of each batch usually goes wrong because it takes on too much fat. So don't despair. It happens to everyone.
And if you still have doubts, here we tell you how to make crepes with step by step photos and ideas (sweet and savory) to fill them.
