Emirates Food Channel
Apple and raisin crepes
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
Ingredients
Nutrition
Instructions
- Melt butter in a saucepan and stir in 60g of sugar.
- Add water, cinnamon stick and one vanilla pod to the pot.
- Bring mixture to a boil and add apples.
- Cook over low heat, occasionally stirring until the apples are tender. Add more water if too much evaporates.
- Stir in raisins before removing the saucepan from heat.
- Remove the cinnamon stick and vanilla pods from the mixture.
- Dissolve 40 g of sugar in lemon juice, add vanilla extract.
- Mix cream cheese and sour cream.
- Stir in the lemon juice mixture into the cream cheese and sour cream mix.
- Combine eggs, 20 g of sugar, salt, melted butter and flour.
- Slowly add milk while stirring the batter to ensure no lumps.
- Slice vanilla pod lengthwise and scrape off the seeds and stir into the batter.
- Let the batter sit at room temperature for at least 15 minutes.
- Heat a non-stick skillet over medium heat and coat with butter or oil.
- Pour batter and spread with a crepe spreader.
- Cook for 2 to 3 minutes until underside of crepe is golden brown.
- Loosen the edges with a spatula, flip and cook for 1 minute.
- Slide crepe off the skillet.
- Lay the crepe on a clean flat plate.
- Spread or pipe some cream cheese filling on the crepe.
- Spoon in the apple and raisin compote on one quarter of the crepe and fold to half.
- Folding one more time into a triangle.
- Repeat with the rest of the crepes.