French
Crepes Sucrees (Sweet Wheat Crepes)
Crepes Sucrees (Sweet Wheat Crepes) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups milk
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 3 tbsp butter, melted, plus extra for the pan
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar or jam, for serving
How to cook it
- Whisk the flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl, whisk in the eggs, then gradually whisk in the milk and melted butter until the batter is smooth and thin.
- Let the batter rest for 15 minutes at room temperature.
- Heat a lightly buttered nonstick skillet or crepe pan over medium heat, ladle in a thin layer of batter, and swirl to coat the pan evenly.
- Cook for about 1 minute, until the edges lift and the underside turns golden, then flip and cook the other side for 30 seconds more.
- Stack the crepes on a plate, sprinkling a little sugar between them or spreading them with jam, and repeat with the remaining batter.
- Fold the warm crepes into quarters and serve for a genuine casual crepe-night dinner.
Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Crepes Sucrees (Sweet Wheat Crepes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Crepes Sucrees (Sweet Wheat Crepes) carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans) |
| Gluten | Yes | Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Baguette Tradition au Beurre (Fresh Tradition Baguette with Butter) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- Low
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Egg, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Crepes Sucrees (Sweet Wheat Crepes) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on egg, flour, and milk.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from western France.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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