Crepes. Happy Bastille Day!
Savory Crepes
Author: UncaMo
Recipe type: Appetizer or Entree
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Serves: 4 big ass crepes
Well, my Dad was at Taste of Chicago and posted a pic of the ham and cheese crepes he had. My honey decided that since it was Bastille Day, I had to make her crepes. Plus my buddy John Romero has been bugging me to teach him how to make crepes. I haven't made crepes in years! Now I think I'll make them at least every other week. They are so easy and delicious. Fill 'em with whatever the hell you want to get out of the fridge!
Ingredients
- 1 cup (about 4-1/2 ounces) All Purpose Flour
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ½ cup whole milk
- ½ cup water
- 2 large eggs (3-1/3 ounces)
- 2 T. unsalted butter, melted
- (optional, if you have the kind of friend who just comes to your house with a giant goddam OUNCE of saffron) add 5-10 strands to the milk and stir well
- Butter for cooking crepes
Instructions
- Preheat a nonstick saute pan over medium-low heat.
- Mix flour with salt.
- Beat eggs well and add milk, water and butter.
- Sift flour and salt into liquid.
- Whisk just until blended.
- Melt some butter in pan, just enough to coat bottom of pan when you swirl it.
- Pour batter into pan starting in the center and spiraling out, covering about ⅔ of the pan. (About ⅔ cup for a 9 inch crepe)
- Tilt pan to spread batter to fill bottom.
- Cook for about 2 minutes.
- Flip with a smooth motion. Or you can just fucking throw out the batter, turn off the stove and practice flipping with a piece of bread until you get it. Or you can just suck and use a spatula. (I plan on posting a video lesson on how to saute and flip stuff in a pan)
- Cook for about a minute and a half on the second side.
- The crepe will bubble slightly and brown a bit. This is what you want.
- Place the crepes on a plate and cover with a clean cloth. Or put them in a oven on the lowest setting to keep while you cook the rest.
- You will likely have to discard the first crepe. It happens. No biggie.
- Fill crepes with stuff. I'll post a nice recipe later.
- Top the crepes with a lovely sauce. I'll post something kickass later.
Hey look! I figured how to caption stuff! This is the first crepe I cooked in almost a decade. It came out pretty nice. Don’t be scared.