One of my resolutions for 2016 is to make more crepes. They work for any meal of the day, disguise leftovers beautifully, and can be made in advance and reheated just before serving. They’re also a great vehicle for all manner of homemade jams, preserves, and compotes. Truly, they’re a dream for home cooks.
Recently, my friends at Anolon asked me to develop a crepe recipe using their Anolon Advanced Umber 9.5-inch Crepe Pan. After doing a bit of playing around, I made these Rye Crepes with Buttery Apple Compote.
I’ve been making crepes for more than 20 years now and have learned a few things in the process. I find that using a blender eliminates any pesky lumps in the batter. Don’t fear the crepe, if one crumples or tears when you flip it, just do your best and keep moving forward. And finally, it helps to have a good pan (like this one from Anolon).
This particular crepe batter is one of my favorites, as the rye flour keeps it tender, and the minimal amount of sugar means you can use it to wrap both sweet and savory fillings. I’m sure you’ll find a way to make it work for you!
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I’d use applesauce or nutella! Thanks for the giveaway!
I have not made crepes in a long time but with this pan the first one I’d make is the Apple Cardamom Compote recipe – I love cardamom!
Mmm, wouldn’t have thought of rye flour. I’ve made crepes with spent grain flour (from hubby’s home brewing)
Because of the rye in the crepe, I think I’d fill it with a savory filling – maybe prosciutto and a provolone or havarti cheese.
Ive never made crepes and would love to win this and try them!
Carol
I’m a big fan of either jam-like fruit in crepes or chocolate/nut butter mixtures in crepes. Though I recently discovered hummus/chevre mixed in chickpea crepes with quick-pickled bell peppers and pomegranate reduction over the top.
And I was just thinking of making crepes for breakfast tomorrow.
I like tomato and cheese in mine. My SO prefers PB&J.
My mother used a favorite copper bottomed Farber pan for making crepes. I might make homemade blintzes if I had a really good pan!
berries and cream cheese, yum!!!
Growing up, a real treat was to make crepes in orange sauce. My mom made the crepes initially, but once I learned how, she happily passed on the task to me. The orange sauce was delicious and sweet, and I loved it. As an adult, I’d probably fill the crepes with something sweet that still had a hint of orange, such as orange marmalade or blueberry citrus preserves. I’d have to gradually transition to savory crepes, but something with mushrooms would definitely be first on the list!
I would fill them with dulce de leche and bananas!
I don’t make them often enough!
Gorgeous pan! I love crepes of all kinds. I am learning some more savory styles.
Love crepes, all kind of them
with strawberries
I would do a savory crepe with eggs, sauted spinach and garlic and a little cheese.
Dark, sweet cherry compote or Nutella and bananas. YUM!
Isn’t it funny how the first crepe almost always turns out wrong, but then all the ones after that are fine.
Umm, a savory crepe with sautéed mushrooms and gruyere cheese.
I’d fill my crepes with caramelized banana slices and peanut butter!
I am looking forward to trying to make crepes in the new year!
I like savory and sweet, so probably combos like salmon and cheese or berries/jam and creme freche.
Ummm, crepes. Butter and jam.
Rye crepes sound really interesting, I can’t wait to try these! My all time favorite way to have crepes is to use them in Nalesniki (crepes filled with a cottage cheese filling, then baked in whipping cream…SO good!). I also like making crepe cakes, the next one I make I want to try varied layers of sweet cream cheese filling, and the Food in Jars Vanilla Pear jam (my new food addiction).
I prefer savory crepes so would use veggies and cheese. Apples and cardamom sound great too.
Nutella!!
Fresh berries and whipped cream!
Yum!
Peaches are my favorite crepe filling… followed by berries of any type.
The first thing I learned to cook was crepes. My Mom bought a crepe pan and taught us how to make crepes and we would fill them with strawberries. I would love this pan since I don’t have a crepe pan.
This would be a fun toy =) Baltimore, for some reason, seems to LOVE crepes.
i’d make Julia Child’s Gateau de Crepes with this pan. 🙂
I love savory crepes. I need to make them more often.
I’d fill my crepes with berries and ricotta
I would create a Pacific Northwest version of a savory filling with smoked salmon, leeks, cream cheese and asiago cheese.
Yum! I’d like a savory filling . . . Maybe a way to use up the left over turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce. All of that wrapped in a crepe sounds good!
I’d fill them with Lingonberry jam and cream cheese…yum!
Always Nutella!
A sweet version sounds good…maybe lemon curd & whipped cream.
Oh crepes. Yum! I like a simple sugar and lemon topping.
I’d try the rye crepes filled with smoked salmon, capers, sour cream, and dill. I want one now!!!
Endless ways to make crep. Sweet and savory as a main course, dessert or just because.
Right now I am thinking of pear and cranberry perhaps spiced up with some vodka.
Cream cheese and brown sugar.
My high school French teacher turned me on to crepes… we’d fill them with strawberries and Nutella. Granted, that was back before Nutella was widely available, so it was a real treat.
With fresh berries and cream!
I would sprinkle them with sugar and lemon juice.
I like to fill crepes with ham, mushrooms and feta!
I would fill crepes w/ lots of good fruit fillings. Apple, pear and blueberries come to mind!
I like crepes filled with a lightly sweetened ricotta/cream cheese filling and homemade jam. Mmm.
Oooh…some type of fruit for sure. Quite probably I would fill my crepes with my various flavored fig preserves.
I usually do sweet crepes — fruit compotes or bananas+nutella! So my food-rules husband always turns down the idea of savory crepes, because he can only envision sweet ones. Rye might be the way to go … especially to use up bits of leftover grilled meats that accumulate thru the weekend!
I love sour cream and chocolate chips in my crepes. So good!
I’d fill mine with strawberries.
I would fill my crepes with strawberries, bananas, whipped cream and a small amount of chocolate syrup.
Love crepes with ricotta cheese and cherries. Yum!
Love crepes with fruit syrup or butter and cinnamon and sugar.
I’d love to try out these crepes with my peach jam.
I’d do a buckwheat savory crepe or try out dosas or injera.
I’m just learning to can, have lots (too many ) tasty jams in my cellar. I’ll try this for my breakfast first, then with other stuffing for dinners.
I love Nutella and fruit in my crepes, but this looks like it might make a perfect New Year’s Day breakfast item!
Goat cheese and blueberries
I’d try a little of everything but start with some fruit!
Cheese blintzes! Back to my roots and would love to explore this sweet new Anolon pan!
I like whipped cream and jam. Also a fruit filling. The one above sounds delicious and I may have to give that a try.
I have some cream fillings I also like. I have one for a 12th night cake that would probably be awesome. I’ve been thinking about that cake lately. May not make the cake but might make the filling and then cook me up some crepes.
And I just bought a new crepe pan. All I have to do is season it and I’m good to go.
Savory filling rather than sweet for me…chicken and veg with any one of various sauces always so good!
Definitely Raspberry!
Ham & Gruyere, I prefer savory crepes.
Our kids love the crepes at Rachels Creperie in Lancaster and I’ve been wanting to try to make them! Thanks for the easy recipe, Marisa!
I would fill mine with apples – and try out your recipe. thanks!
I’ve never made crepes, but I think I would fill it with strawberries and bananas
Can I just say I’ve been thinking about crepes for months now, and still haven’t made any this year?? Do I have any rye flour left in the freezer? If I don’t I will go out and buy some. In the meantime, a dedicated crepe pan WOULD be nice. Hear that, powers that be??
I would fill my crepes with peaches and cream. What a gorgeous pan! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
Erin
I love crepes! And you’re right that they are great vessels for leftovers. I like strawberries in particular though.
I love berries in my crepes!
I’d like some kind of creamy cheese and strawberries with whipped cream on top and a drizzle of honey. Don’t know why but that sounds all kinds of good to me right now!
I think fried apples with cinnamon topped with whipped cream would be delicious.
I just brought home some rye flour and I have some lovely apple preserves I can use to fill my first ever crepes!
Fruit is good, but I love beurre-sucre (butter sugar) with a squeeze of lemon. H
i like savory crepes–ratatouille or mushroom would be my first endeavor.
I have never made crepes. Intrigued, I am.
We love making gluten free crepes. Esp with Swedish split pea soup.
I’ve only ever made crepes for blintzes (and then only cheese blintzes with a dash of cinnamon and sugar in the cheese), but would be fun to try an actual crepe application 🙂
Chicken and mushrooms in white sauce! Yummy!
I’d fill my crepes with either a cheese and kale combo or a yogurt and berry mix.
I would probably keep it simple and sweet 🙂 Breakfast crepes with fruit, cinnamon, and sugar sound nice!
Huh. Something to try.
This looks wonderful. Plain and simple crepes with butter and sugar for breakfast sounds perfect to me now.
cinnamon cream!
I love your idea of rye crepes. Never would have thought of it. Crepes always bring to mind the Crepes Fitzgerald my mother made, often, when I was a teenager, with a cream cheese/sour cream filling and strawberries sauteed in butter and sugar. I can still smell the intoxicating smell of them cooking. But, hey, there are endless possibilities with a crepe. I would happily try many, many combinations.
I make something very similar to this, but with buckwheat flour instead. And I love it. But will try rye next time, I think. It sounds good, too!
Crepes are a favorite in my family. I usually have two or three small saute pans going at the same time.
Nutella and strawberry crepes, yum!
I love crepes. Apple compote sounds divine!
Strawberries and cream!
Raspberry jelly!
I’ve always wanted to try my hand at crepes – love that they are so flexible. I have lots of homemade jams that I need to use up!
I make flour-less crepes using plantains and fill them with everything
Bananas! Or maybe sauteed pears. Yum.
Peaches and cream sounds good!
Raspberry jam is my favorite
Leftovers! I am always looking for a way to eat up leftovers in portable fashion!