Since I am French, I wanted to share with you a very simple recipe of a common and traditional dish from France: crêpes! Many of you probably already know this dish as it exists in almost every country, but it originally comes from France. Anyway, to get started, you need to gather all the ingredients you need to make some crêpes. To make around thirty crêpes you will need:
- 500 g of flour
- 6 to 8 eggs
- 5 cl of oil or of butter
- 1 liter of milk
- a pinch of salt
Alright, now that you have all your ingredients prepared, let's get started with the cooking!
So first, you have to mix the eggs and the flour together with a whisk or with a blender. To avoid to make some lumps of dough, you should add the flour gradually.
Then, add the milk little by little while you are adding the rest of the flour. Once you have finished incorporating the milk and the flour into the mixture, add finally the butter and the salt. Keep stirring all the ingredients until the mixture becomes homogeneous. You need to leave the dough in the fridge for two hours.
Okay, now it is time to make things ready! Take out a frying pan and put a little bit of oil on it. Let the oil heat for a couple of seconds and then start pouring the dough on the pan. Try to make thin crêpes, so do not put too much dough on the pan, otherwise you will have American pancakes as a result! Leave the crêpe on the pan until it gets light brown and then flip it over to cook the other side of the crêpe. Do as many crêpes as you want! You can eat them either salty with cheese and ham or sweet with for example jam, Nutella, honey or sugar. You have many other alternatives, so just do whatever your imagination tells you!
Bon appétit!
Link to the original recipe in French: http://chefsimon.lemonde.fr/crepes.html
