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PREPARATION OF CRÊPES
1. The appliance is ideal for
preparing crêpes.
2. Just turn the grill plate with the
smooth surface up.
ATTENTION!
If you have grilled or prepared
raclette before, let the
appliance cool down before
turning the grill plate!
3. Preheat the appliance on a
medium heat level for 10-15
minutes.
4. Prepare a crêpes dough in the
meantime and leave it for approx.
30 minutes.
5. Fill a small ladle of dough in the
middle of the crêpes plate.
6. When the dough has curdled, turn
the crêpe by using a spatula.
7. Then add the desired topping and
cook it with the crêpe or cook the
crêpe separately, take if off and
fill it according to your taste.
Crêpes and Galettes
Crêpes and galettes are specialities from Brittany. Traditionally crêpes are served with sweet filling
or are just dusted with powder sugar, the spicy galettes from buckwheat with spices fillings. But this
are only proposals, just find your own favourites.
Basic recipe for crêpes
175 g flour, 1 egg, 3 egg yolks, 1/8 l cream,
1 pinch of salt, Carbonated mineral water,
Clarifined butter
You may also use milk instead of cream.
The fatter the cream or milk, the softer the
dough.
Basic recipe for galettes
Replace 75 g of flour by buckwheat flour
You may also use wholewheat flour. Then the
water quantity has to be increased.
Stir a liquid dough of alle ingredients and
leave it for ½ hour. Give some clarified butter on
the crêpes plate, heat it and add 2-3 tablespoons
of dough on the plate, distribute with a spatula.
Let the dough thicken and turn with a wood
spatula. Then wither add the filling to be cooked
with the crêpe or cook the crêpe, take it from the
plate and add the desired topping.
Already prepared crêpes can be kept warm
in a stove at 100 °C, covered with a foil.
Crêpes Suzette
100 g butter, 100 g sugar, juice from
1/2 orange, 1 small glass of Curaçao, 1 basic
recipe of crêpes
Prepare crêpes, reduce the milk and use the
orange juice and a dash of Curaçao. Melt butter
and sugar to candy in a pan, add the orange
juice. Fold the crêpes twice, lay them into the
pan, pour orange liqueur on top and flame with
rhum.
Crêpes with mushrooms and liver
250 g chanterelles/button mushrooms, 150 g
calf liver, 40 g butter, 4 slices of ham, 100 ml
cream, 2 tablespoon of Parmesan cheese,
1/2 chopped onion, 1 pinch of nutmeg, salt and
pepper, 1 basic recipe of crêpes
Roast the onion in the butter, add the sliced
mushrooms and braise about 10 minutes. Add
the finely cut liver and braise 3 minutes. Prepare
salty crêpes or galettes and place 1/2 slice of
ham on each crêpes. Then add the mushroom
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