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You can have Basic Crêpes using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Basic Crêpes
- You need 350 ml of 2% reduced fat milk.
- You need 142 gr of all purpose flour.
- Prepare 2 tsp of granulated sugar.
- You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
- It's 42 gr of unsalted butter, melted.
- You need 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It's 3 of large eggs.
- It's of some butter for the pan.
- It's of powdered sugar for dusting (optional).
- Prepare of desired fillings (I used hazelnut spread and fresh strawberries 🍓- optional).
Make easy basic crepes for breakfast Crepes are surprisingly easy to make on a whim. The secret: letting the batter rest. It gives time for flour to absorb the liquid and the gluten to relax. Intried this once and it made amzing pancakes but the batter was really lumpy but i couldnt be bothered sifting the flour..
Basic Crêpes step by step
- Blend all ingredients in a blender on a low speed for lore or less 10 seconds..
- Cover with plastic and chill for at least 1 hour (or overnight if you want to make for breakfast)..
- Heat a 10 inch non-stick pan over medium high heat..
- Gently stir butter with a spoon just to blend separated layers. Lightly butter pan then lift pan and pour 60 ml batter into pan..
- Immediately tilt and swirl pan in a circular motion to evenly coat entire bottom portion of pan with batter..
- Cook until golden brown on the bottom, and then flip crêpe to opposite side. Cook until golden brown spots appear on the bottom. Remove from the heat..
- Do this until all the batter has been use up..
- Fill crêpe with desired filling or just roll and fold and dust with powdered sugar. Yum! 😋.
Sift together flour, sugar and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, beat eggs and milk together with an electric mixer. Beat in flour mixture until smooth; stir in melted butter. Make the crepes: Whisk the eggs together in a medium-size mixing bowl. Slowly add the melted butter and whisk until combined.