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Making crêpes step by step: put the recipe in order
A crêpe recipe as a timeline: from mixing the flour and eggs to flipping the first crêpe. Read the steps, then shuffle them and rebuild the recipe.
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In short
For about 12 crêpes: 250 g flour, 3 eggs, 50 cl milk, a pinch of salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 30 g melted butter. Mix, rest the batter, then cook thin layers in a hot buttered pan, flipping once.
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- Étape 1Mettez la farine dans un saladier et faites un puits.Put the flour in a bowl and make a well.
- Étape 2Ajoutez les œufs, le sel et le sucre.Add the eggs, salt and sugar.
- Étape 3Versez le lait petit à petit en mélangeant.Pour in the milk little by little, stirring.
- Étape 4Ajoutez le beurre fondu.Add the melted butter.
- Étape 5Laissez reposer la pâte une heure.Let the batter rest for an hour.
- Étape 6Faites chauffer une poêle beurrée.Heat a buttered pan.
- Étape 7Versez une petite louche de pâte et étalez-la.Pour in a small ladle of batter and spread it.
- Étape 8Retournez la crêpe après une minute.Flip the crêpe after one minute.
Key words
| French | English |
|---|---|
| le saladier | mixing bowl |
| la pâte | batter |
| la poêle | frying pan |
| la louche | ladle |
| retourner | to flip |
| laisser reposer | to let rest |
On 2 February, la Chandeleur, French families make crêpes. Tradition says you flip the first crêpe holding a coin in your other hand for good luck. Sweet crêpes come with sugar, jam or Nutella; in Brittany, savoury buckwheat galettes come with ham, cheese and egg (complète).
- Mettez la pâte dans une casserole.Versez la pâte dans une poêle.
Crêpes are cooked in a flat poêle.
- Laissez la pâte se reposer elle-même.Laissez reposer la pâte.
The fixed phrase is laisser reposer.