Dairy Free Crêpes Recipe
Enjoy Dairy Free Crêpes as your next dessert, or Sunday breakfast. The best homemade crêpes made completely without butter, milk, or eggs. They are so delicious! Serve with your favorite toppings and fillings such as jam, fruit, or dairy free ricotta.
Servings: 4 crêpes
Equipment
- electric mixer (or whisk by hand), medium-sized non-stick flat shallow pan (or pancake/crêpe pan), crêpe spreader
Ingredients
Basic batter
- 130 grams buckwheat flour, or unbleached all-purpose (1 cup)
- 1 tablespoons cornstarch
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 250 mililiters plant milk, eg: almond, soy, oat (1 cup)
- 50 mililiters filtered water (¼ Cup)
- 1 tablespoons oil, eg: vegetable, avocado or olive oil
- some vegan butter, or more oil for frying
To make sweet crêpes add
- 1 tablespoons cane sugar
Instructions
- In a medium-sized bowl mix all dry ingredients together. Then add wet ingredients and whisk together quickly. Crêpe batter is rather thin. Set aside and let rest for 30 minutes at room temperature.
- Heat your pan and brush lightly with vegan butter or oil. Crêpes are known for being dry and not surrounded by fat, so don't overdo it with the fat! Once hot pour a little less than a ¼ cup of batter into the center of the hot skillet. Using your crêpe spreader, spread batter in a circle motion thinly out.If you don't have a crêpe spreader: Immediately pick up the skillet pan, circle the pan, and tilt it in all directions to flatten the batter. Both of these practices may take a few tries and a bit of practice, but you'll get the hang of it faster than you'd expect!
- Cook crêpe on one side until the liquid becomes more solid. It is ready to be flipped once it's nicely bubbled and the edges are slightly golden brown (it takes around 30-45 seconds). Using a spatula loosen from crêpe pan, or if using a skillet shake and jerk it by its handle to dislodge the crêpe. You can either flip it by throwing it (which is rather hard to be successful with), or you simply use a flat spatula. Gently direct your spatula under the crêpe, raise and quickly flip. Cook on the other side for around 30-60 seconds.
- To check for doneness: Pick up the sides of the crepe around its circumference to peek at it. Once cooked to slightly golden brown on both sides pick up and transfer onto a plate. Fill, fold and top as wished.