La French cuisine It is one of the most valued in the world. One of its star dishes is the famous crepe (written in French crepe), a product that is easy to make and can be made in different ways. In this article, we explain how to prepare French crepes and we give you curious facts about them.
Below you have an index with all the points that we are going to deal with in this article.
Recipe
The ingredients necessary to prepare crepes as the French do are the following:
- 250 g. Of flour
- 4 eggs
- 500 ml. milk
- 50 g. of butter
- 1 tablespoon oil
- Sal Island
- Sugar
To give them a different flavor, some people also add rum or some type of liquor to the ingredients. The first step in the preparation is to add the milk, eggs, salt and sugar to the flour. All this is beaten by hand, with a mixer or with a Thermomix.
Let the dough rest for one hour. Then butter is spread in a pan and we wait for it to be hot. After this, we add a soup ladle of dough and distribute it throughout the pan.
You have to heat the dough over low heat for about a minute and then carefully turn it over and leave it again for another minute. Once the crepe is golden brown on both sides, we take it out.
This action of spreading the butter and adding the dough is repeated until the ingredients are gone. With the quantities indicated here, we will have approximately eight crepes.
People who are professionally dedicated to making crepes have special machines to prepare them, although these are increasingly available to anyone. They come in different sizes and can be electric or gas.
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The combinations of flavors that can be made regarding the filling of the crepe are numerous. However, there are some that are more popular and have their own name, such as the following:
- Suzette
- the filling is beurre suzzette or Suzette butter, made with butter, sugar, orange juice, and the orange liqueur known as triple dry.
- oh sucre
- served with dusted sugar and lemon juice.
- au beurre salé
- the filling is based on a kind of salted butter.
- A la creme patisserie
- It has pastry cream and nuts.
- Norwegian
- the ingredient that makes it special is smoked salmon.
Apart from these, one of the crepes that most triumphs among those with a sweet tooth is the filling of chocolate or some cocoa cream like Nutella. On the other hand, if you are looking to take care of yourself, there are also some options of whole-grain crepes or and, too.
Innovations are also carried out in this type of food. For example, one of the ones that is becoming more fashionable is the one with matcha green tea, which makes the crepe that color.
History
To talk about the origin of crepes we have to go back to the time of the Middle Ages, when they began to be cooked in Brittany, west of France. This food was ideal for farmers, as it was easy to transport.
Since then, crepes have been a typical dish of the French gastronomy. So much so, that there is a special day for them: February 2, during the feast of the Chandeleur or La Candelaria, the tradition is to cook and eat crepes.
Although the crepes are typical of France, nowadays they are consumed in different countries. Therefore, we can find specialized restaurants in Spain, Argentina or Mexico, among other territories.
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