Curtis Stone's crêpes with orange and mascarpone.
Ingredients
To whip up Stone's crêpes for four:
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup all purpose flour (sifted)
- 1 ¼ cups whole milk
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- A pinch of salt
To make the sauce:
- 2 oranges
- 1 cup mascarpone cheese
- ½ cup pure maple syrup
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier or other orange liqueur.
Instructions
- Start by blending the flour, milk, cream, sugar, eggs, and salt in a blender until they're smooth.
- Cover the batter and set aside for 30 minutes, which will allow time for your flour to absorb all the liquid.
- Then, heat a crêpe pan or an 8-inch nonstick sauté pan over medium-low heat.
- Dab some butter on a paper towel and wipe the pan with a little butter.
- Pour 3 tablespoons of batter into the center of your pan and swirl to thinly coat the bottom.
- Cook for one-and-a half minutes, or until the edges of the crêpe are light brown.
- Loosen the edges gently with a silicone spatula and carefully turn your crêpe over.
- Continue cooking the crêpe for about one minute, until the bottom begins to brown in spots. Transfer to a plate.
- Repeat with the remaining batter, wiping the pan with butter as needed. You should be able to make 12 crêpes total.
To make the sauce:
- First, grate the peel from your oranges and set aside.
- Cut the oranges between the membranes to release the orange segments, setting them aside as well.
- Then squeeze the orange juice from the membranes into a bowl. You should get ¼ cup of orange juice total.
- Heat the maple syrup in a large sauté pan over medium heat until it begins to simmer.
- Add the orange peel and juice, as well as your butter, and simmer over medium-low heat for five minutes, until the sauce slightly thickens.
- Add the Grand Mariner and simmer for two more minutes, until the sauce slightly thickens again.
- Spread a large spoonful of mascarpone over each crêpe and fold in half, then in half again, forming triangles.
- Add the orange segments to the hot orange sauce and swirl the pan to gently warm the oranges.
- Spoon the sauce and oranges over the crêpes and serve immediately.
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