Crespelle
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Crespelle are more widely known with their French name "crêpes". However, when I say "Crepelle" as a dish, I mean an oven-cooked dish with crepes filled with anything you'd like, and besciamella on top. Great for an indoor Sunday in Winter, it's a very filling and equally tasty dish!
Ingredients (2 people)#
For the crêpes: - Cheakpea flour: 100 gr - Water: 200 gr - A tiny tiny pinch of salt
For Besciamella make it yourself
For the filling, you can get creative here, but I'd suggest two of my favourites.
Cream and Mushroom#
- Vegan double cream for cooking: 250 gr
- Mushroom (any kind, but I suggest Chestnut mushroom): 500-550 gr
- Soy sauce: 3 tbsp
Ricotta and Spinach#
- Vegan ricotta from 500 gr of unsweetened soy milk - make it yourself
- Fresh spinach: 200 gr - you can use frozen spinach and unfreeze them before cooking
Method for Cream and Mushroom Crespelle#
- Cut the mushroom in pieces (big or small it doesn't matter, you're going to blend them later anyway). Put them in a non-stick pan and cook them until they release the water (should take around 10-15 minutes)
- Stir the mushroom every now and then, and cook the crêpes in the meantime
- Prepare the batter with chickpea flour and water, and whisk it to remove the clots as much as possible
- To cook the crêpes, warm up a small non-stick pan, ideally it should be as small as the size of the crêpes you want to make. Put a little bit of your seeds oil of choice, and then pour the batter in. Once it's solid and looks like a crêpe, flip it around with the help of a spatula, cook the other side, and then put aside on a plate, and make another one, and then another one...and so on, until you've done them all. You should get 6-8 crêpes, depending on the size you make
- Keep the crêpes aside and prepare the filling. Take out the cooked mushroom from the pan, put them in a blender and blend them very roughly, to keep pieces of mushrooms visible
- Put them back in the pan, add the cream and the soy sauce, and cook for 5-10 minutes, until the cream's liquid evaporates a bit
- Then prepare the crêpes. Take one, put the mushroom and cream filling in the middle of it with a spoon, and then wrap it up and put it in an oven casserole. Put them all one next to the other
- Lastly, prepare the Besciamella and then pour it on top of the crêpes
- Put in the pre-heated over and cook for 15-20 minutes with fan.
Once ready, I suggest leaving it there for 10 minutes before eating it.