Yep, you've read that right, this post is a recipe for Crêpes (thin french pancake); the vegan kind. It came about this morning as my wife made some non-vegan ones Saturday morning. Curious to how a vegan version of the recipe will taste like, I decided to try it for Sunday breakfast. And it was a resounding success, IMHO. Here's a few pictures of the crêpes in the making:
Making the recipe animal products free was pretty easy albeit a little worrisome as I kinda suck at cooking and substituting ingredients is a bit like dark art for me, still ... Anyhow, here's the ingredients list (which should yield about 4 standard size crêpes):
- 120g of Flour
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 2 Flax Eggs (2 tbsp grounded flaxseed meal + 5 tbsp water)
- 1 cup of (unsweetened) Soy milk
- 4 tbsp Water
- 2 tbsp Orange Blossoms water (or Vanilla extract)
- 2 tbsp Vegan butter (e.g. Earth Balance)
The batter preparation is fairly easy:
- mix all dry ingredient in a bowl
- mix all wet ingredient in a separate bowl (you'll need to melt the vegan butter first, the flax eggs count as a wet ingredient)
- whisk the wet into the dry
It is custom to leave the batter to rest for a bit, I didn't and it turned out fine, YMMV. Grounding the flaxseed meal my not be necessary. I have the habit of doing so as I found the one I have to be not that well grounded. I think that for a crêpe you want it to be as fine as possible as they are not supposed to be "seedy".
I enjoyed mine with some Italian Figs jam and it was just as yummy as the non-vegan one! Enjoy!
