Healthy Pancake Recipe from France
Natural Mothers Healthy Pancake Recipe From France
Mardi Gras- Shrove Tuesday
Stir a pancake,
Pop it in the pan,
Fry the pancake,
Toss the pancake,
Catch it if you can
Healthy Pancake Recipe From France-Crêpes
(makes about 24)
What you need
- 250g/ 2 cups of plain (all purpose) flour
- 3 eggs
- 250ml/ 8.5 fl oz of milk (low fat is okay)
- 250ml/ 8.5 fl oz of spring/filtered water
- 2 tbsp of sunflower oil
- pinch of sea salt
- mixing bowl
- sieve
- whisk
- 10″ low sided non-stick frying pan
What to do
Set the oven on a low heat. Sieve the flour into a large bowl. Make a well in the centre and add eggs and salt. Mix well. Whisk in milk and water. Add oil and leave to stand, at room temperature, for at least an hour. Warm your frying pan on a medium-high heat with the sunflower oil. This will require some agility: Tilt your frying pan and ladle the pancake batter onto the pan from the top to the side. You need to tilt pan in circle motion to help batter to spread it thinly around. You may need to add more pancake batter if necessary so it covers the base completely. Fry the pancake until there is no more liquid batter on its edges, then it’s ready to flip! Experiment tossing the pancake or cheat and do it quickly with your hands et voila! Repeat the process until the pancake batter is used up. Keep them in your warm oven until ready to use!
Bonne Appétit x
Flambéed crêpes à la Normande
What you need
- 40g/ 1.4 oz butter
- 2 finely sliced apples
- 40g/ 1.4 oz caster/confectioners sugar
- 1 tbsp crème fraîche
- 1 tbsp calvados
- 4 hot crèpes
What to do
Melt your normandie butter in a pan and then add your finely sliced apples and cook over a high heat. The add the sugar and mix until completely dissolved. Pour onto each pancake and top with crème fraîche. For the adults, heat the calvados and then pour over the crêpes and light with a match! Best enjoyed-as is the tradition-with a pint of dry cider and apple juice for the children!Bonne Appétit x
Christina Rosettei (1830-94) wrote this nursery rhyme for ‘Shrove Tuesday’ or as many of us know it: Pancake Day. ‘Shrove’ refers to the confessing of sins (Shriving) and precedes Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent. Lent for Christians, is a time for reflection and historically a time for fasting. Shrove Tuesday was the last time to feast and to use up foods that were not eaten in Lent: eggs, milk and fats fell into this category and so you have most of the ingredients for pancakes. The French use the name Mardi Gras, which means Fat Tuesday and comes from the need to abstain from fats. Shrove Tuesday means that spring is coming and there are only 47 days until we eat chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday!
What you need
- 250g/ 2 cups of plain (all purpose) flour
- 3 eggs
- 250ml/ 8.5 fl oz of milk (low fat is okay)
- 250ml/ 8.5 fl oz of spring/filtered water
- 2 tbsp of sunflower oil
- pinch of sea salt
- mixing bowl
- sieve
- whisk
- 10? low sided non-stick frying pan
What to do
Set the oven on a low heat. Sieve the flour into a large bowl. Make a well in the centre and add eggs and salt. Mix well. Whisk in milk and water. Add oil and leave to stand, at room temperature, for at least an hour. Warm your frying pan on a medium-high heat with the sunflower oil. This will require some agility: Tilt your frying pan and ladle the pancake batter onto the pan from the top to the side. You need to tilt pan in circle motion to help batter to spread it thinly around. You may need to add more pancake batter if necessary so it covers the base completely. Fry the pancake until there is no more liquid batter on its edges, then it’s ready to flip! Experiment tossing the pancake or cheat and do it quickly with your hands et voila! Repeat the process until the pancake batter is used up. Keep them in your warm oven until ready to use!
Bonne Appétit x
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Rebecca Watkins worked as a professional photo journalist and travelled the world with her husband John, before settling down as a stay at home mother to their three daughters. They have recently moved back from the French Alps to an old cottage in Devon, England. Rebecca’s days are filled with visits to the beach, animated discussions and in the best moments, happiness and creativity in her family home of five. The other moments are filled with craziness and chaos and she loves those too.
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Your French Crepes bring back so many memories for me when we spent so much time in France, sigh! Hope you are having a great weekend and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Oh my those Flambéed Crêpes sound lovely! Thank you for sharing them, and also your delicious pancake recipe, with the Hearth and Soul hop.
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