Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Strawberry Crepes


Crepes with Nutella and strawberry sauce.


First, mix up the crepe batter. It needs to sit out for about twenty minutes to become room temperature. While it sits, I cut up the strawberries and set them to simmer on low heat with honey.


Changed pans, added pure cacao nibs for crunch.


Whisk up the batter again and start heating the pan with a small amount of butter/oil. I set my electric stove to just below 4 (it goes to 10).


Start making crepes. I use a 1/4 c. measuring cup to pour the batter in the center of the pan, then swirl it around by tilting the pan.


Crispy edges, time to flip the crepe. This usually takes about 1-2 minutes.


Crepe is ready. This takes another minute or so, depending on crepe thickness.

Once the crepe is ready, set it flat on a plate. Pour another 1/4 cup crepe batter into the pan and let cook while spreading Nutella inside the cooked crepe and rolling it up.


Nutella-filled, strawberry sauce-topped crepes.


Delicious!

Evil Bitch-Monster of Death's Crepe Recipe
1/4 c. milk
1/4 c. water
1/2 c. flour
1/8 tsp. salt
1 egg
1 tblsp oil, or melted butter
1-2 tblsp sugar (optional)

Protein modification:
replace 1/4 c. milk with 1/4 c. water (or keep milk and add a couple tblsps water -- this is mostly to dissolve the protein powder)
replace 1/2 c. flour with 1/4 c. flour, 1/2 c. protein powder
-- these tend to be more sticky than regular crepes, so be sure to butter the pan and cook slightly longer.

Mix all ingredients together with a fork or whisk until smooth; let sit 20 mins or so (fold some laundry, do some dishes, make some fruit compote). Heat a little butter or oil in pan on almost-medium heat, pour 1/4 cup at a time in center and rotate pan to spread into flat crepe shape. Cook 1-2 minutes, flip, cook 1-2 minutes more. Makes 4 crepes (double or triple recipe for more crepes).

Evil Bitch-Monster of Death's Fruit compote (can be made while letting crepe batter sit):

take out some cream cheese to soften, 2-3 oz. (optional)
frozen or fresh fruit (1/3 to 1/2 cup is plenty to fill 4 crepes)
honey or granulated sugar (2-3 tblsps, more if you like it really sweet or are using bitter fruit like raspberries)

Boil fruit and sugar/honey on medium heat in a pan, reduce to simmer for about 10 mins, stirring and mushing so nothing sticks to the pan. Pour into bowl, beat in optional cream cheese with fork or something, fridge to chill. (Clean pan, cook crepes).

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