I love crepes especially with fresh fruits.  I have posted many crepe recipes and I wanted to do something totally different in taste wise and display wise.  So I thought of making these crepes with cooked apples.  I added some crushed ginger to the apples to give some spiciness.  Initially I was a bit afraid since I wasn’t sure how the outcome would be.  But for my surprise, it came out quite good.

As seen in the picture, once you add the apples to the crepes and formed a sack, I used apple peel (skin) to tie these sacks instead of using a thread.  When peeling the apple skin, make sure to peel them into long tapes and then cut them into thin strings.

Ingredients:

Pancake:

• ½ cup all purpose flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 egg white
• 1 tablespoon oil
• A pinch of salt
• Butter for skillet

Apple Filling:

• 2 small green apples (Granny Smith gives a good tart flavor)
• 1 teaspoon crushed fresh ginger
• 2 teaspoons butter
• 1 tablespoon brown sugar

Orange Sauce:

• 1 cup orange juice
• 2 teaspoons butter
• 3-4 teaspoons brown sugar

Method:

To Make the Pancakes:

• In a bowl beat egg white lightly and add oil and milk and mix well
• Combine flour and salt and a big bowl and make a well in the middle
• Slowly add the milk mixture into the flour and mix thoroughly until free of lumps
• Place a 6 inch skillet over medium flame.
• Add a little bit of butter and once it starts sizzling, add about 2-3 tablespoons to the skillet and swirl to make the crepes
• Cook on both sides and transfer to a plate

To Make the apple filling:

• Peel and core apples
• Chop apples into small cubes – roughly about ½ in cube
• Add butter to a skillet and once it is hot, add apples and brown sugar and cook on low flame for about 5 minutes
• Add crushed ginger and cook until apples are soft

To make the Orange Sauce:

• Melt butter in a skillet.  Add orange juice and brown sugar and boil gently until sauce thickens.

To assemble:

• A about 1-2 teaspoons apple in the middle of a crepe and lift the edges together to make a sack.
• Tie each of the sack with an apple peel strin
• To serve add orange sauce to a plate and place a couple of apple sacks on the sauce

Yields: 12 apple sacks.

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