Crêpes with orange butter sauce
Fragrant with orange blossom water, this recipe for buttery citrus crêpes make a beautiful dessert.
Ingredients
For the crêpes
- 125g/4½oz plain flour
- 15g/½oz caster sugar
- pinch salt
- 2 medium free-range eggs
- 325ml/11½fl oz milk
- 50ml/1¾fl oz double cream
- few drops orange flower water
- 20g/¾oz clarified butter
For the orange butter sauce
- 10 oranges, 6 juiced, 4 segmented
- 100g/3½oz icing sugar
- 125g/4½oz butter, diced, softened
- 4 sprigs fresh mint
Method
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For the crêpes, whisk the flour, sugar, salt, eggs and a third of the milk in a bowl to a smooth batter.
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Gradually stir in the rest of the the milk and all of the cream. Leave the batter to rest in a warm place for about an hour.
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Just before cooking, stir in the orange flower water.
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Brush a small 18cm-20cm/7in-8in frying pan with a little of the clarified butter and place over a medium heat. Add a ladleful of the batter and tilt the pan to cover the base thinly; cook the crêpe for a minute each side.
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Transfer the crêpe to a plate and repeat, stacking the crêpes between sheets of greaseproof paper, until all of the batter has been used up.
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For the orange butter sauce, strain the orange juice through a sieve into a saucepan and add the icing sugar.
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Gradually bring the mixture to the boil and cook until the volume of liquid has reduced by half.
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Turn off the heat and whisk in the butter, a little at a time.
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To serve, scatter the orange segments over each crêpe and roll up. Spoon over the orange sauce and garnish with a sprig of mint.
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