How to Cook Crepes Suzette
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 1 hour
Cooking time: 30 mins
Ingredients needed to make Crepes Suzette:
For the crepes:
- 4 ½ oz plain four
- 10 ½ fl oz milk
- 1 tsp butter, melted plus more for frying
- 1 egg
For the sauce:
- Juice and freshly grated zest of one orange
- Freshly grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
- Juice of 2 oranges
- 2 tbsp brandy
- 2 tbsp orange liqueur
- 3 tbsp caster sugar
Cooking instructions for Crepes Suzette:
- To make the crepes, crack the egg in a medium bowl and whisk in the milk and melted butter until they blend into a uniform, pale yellow mixture.
- Fold in the flour gradually while beating it into the mixture each addition, until all of it is used up to make an even batter with minimal lumps.
- Heat a skillet to moderate hotness and add a knob of butter to melt until it foams.
- Ladle ¼ of the batter into the centre of the pan and spread it over the base with the back of that ladle into a thin layer.
- Cook the bottom of the crepe for a couple of minutes or so and flip it over to cook the other side for another minute.
- Transfer the crepe onto a wax paper and cook the other three crepes in a similar fashion.
- Leave them in the fridge to chill while you start preparing the sauce.
- To cook the sauce, heat a fresh skillet over moderate flame and add a splodge of butter onto it.
- Heat until the butter melts and stir in the citrus zests and juices as well as the caster sugar.
- Cook the mixture for about 3-4 minutes or until it thickens and bubbles appear on the surface.
- Turn off the heat and set aside to cool slightly.
- Take the crepes out from the fridge and fold them into quarters.
- Stack them up onto the hot sauce and reheat the sauce back over moderate heat.
- Smother them with a splash of brandy as well as orange liqueur and cook until the raw smell of the alcohol disappears.
- Continue to simmer for about 2 minutes or until the crepes are warmed through.
- Transfer the crepes onto serving plates and drizzle the hot orange sauce over them.
- Serve right away.
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