Buckwheat Crepes With Roasted Apricots
- Total Time
- 1 hour 10 minutes
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Ingredients
- 3large eggs
- 240grams (1 cup) low-fat milk (2 percent)
- 80grams (⅓ cup) water
- 1tablespoon sugar (optional)
- 80grams (⅔ cup) buckwheat flour
- 40grams (½ cup) unbleached all-purpose flour
- ½teaspoon salt
- 3tablespoons melted butter, canola oil or grapeseed oil
- 6 to 8apricots, cut in half, pits removed (1½ to 2 apricots per person, depending on the size)
- 1tablespoon butter
- 1tablespoon honey
- 1drop almond extract
- 2tablespoons chopped lightly toasted pistachios, plus additional for garnish
- 4buckwheat crepes (above)
- Honey-sweetened plain yogurt or vanilla ice cream for serving (optional)
For the Buckwheat Crepes
For the Roasted Apricots
Preparation
- Step 1
In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, water and sugar. Sift together the buckwheat and all-purpose flour and the salt and whisk into the liquid mixture. Add the melted butter or oil and whisk together. Insert a hand blender and blend for 1 minute. If you don’t have a hand blender, blend the mixture in a regular blender for 1 minute and pour back into the bowl. Cover and let sit for 1 hour.
- Step 2
Place a seasoned or nonstick 7- or 8-inch crepe pan over medium heat. Brush with butter or oil and when the pan is hot, remove from the heat and ladle in about ¼ cup batter if using an 8-inch pan, 3 tablespoons for a 7-inch pan. Tilt or swirl the pan to distribute the batter evenly and return to the heat. Cook for about 1 minute, until you can easily loosen the edges with a spatula and the crepe is nicely browned. Turn and cook on the other side for 30 seconds. Turn onto a plate. Continue until all of the batter is used up.
- Step 3
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place the apricots in a baking dish large enough to accommodate them in a single layer, but not too large. Place the butter, honey and almond extract in a small saucepan or in a ramekin and heat until the butter melts, either on the stove or at 50 percent power for 25 seconds in the microwave. Pour over the apricots and toss together. Turn the apricots cut side down. Place in the oven and roast for 10 to 15 minutes, until the apricots are soft. Remove from the oven.
- Step 4
Heat the crepes. Place 3 large or 4 small apricot halves on each crepe. Spoon a little of the juice in the pan over the apricots, but leave enough to spoon over the crepes. Sprinkle on some pistachios. Either roll up the crepe or simply fold over the apricots. Spoon juice from the pan over the crepe, garnish with more pistachios and serve. If you wish, serve these with a little honey-sweetened yogurt or vanilla ice cream.
- Advance preparation: The crepes freeze well, for several weeks. Stack them between pieces of wax paper or parchment and wrap tightly before freezing. You can make and refrigerate them up to a day ahead of serving. The apricot filling can be made several hours ahead.
Private Notes
Cooking Notes
The roasted apricots alone might be the best thing I’ve eaten in years. Unbelievably intense tangy sweet apricot flavor - approximated in the best dried apricots but better. Make this with or without the crepes!!
Cooked just the apricot sauce part. Didn't have pistachios, which would have been nice! Sauce turned out great. Served them on olive oil cornmeal cake with a dollop of thick non-fat vanilla yogurt. A winner!
Delicious with honey infused goat cheese (TJ's chevre with honey)!
Vegan ones with a reversed flour combo for the buckwheat to give the beautiful silver color yet not taste too much: 80 g reg flour 40 g buckwheat flour 4 tbs aquafaba 1 tsp kosher salt Let batter sit overnight Slightly hotter than medium heat A touch less than 3 tbs batter for a 6 inch pan Add a spray of oil every third or so pancake
Delicious with honey infused goat cheese (TJ's chevre with honey)!
The roasted apricots alone might be the best thing I’ve eaten in years. Unbelievably intense tangy sweet apricot flavor - approximated in the best dried apricots but better. Make this with or without the crepes!!
Good suggestion to use lots of apricots. I did not have almond extract so used vanilla extract. It was delicious
Cooked just the apricot sauce part. Didn't have pistachios, which would have been nice! Sauce turned out great. Served them on olive oil cornmeal cake with a dollop of thick non-fat vanilla yogurt. A winner!
Thanks to the previous reviewer's warning, I doubled the apricots (12 total) and had enough filling for 6 crepes. I liked that the filling was a bit tart, but I think my husband would have preferred more honey in the filling for a sweeter crepe. I did have enough juice, but I think it's because I inadvertently cooked the apricots longer. We added extra pistachios.
A very good crepe recipe; however, there weren't enough apricots, and even less juice, to serve 4 people two crepes each. I would add more almond extract next time too; the juice flavor was on the snoozy side.
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