Chicken Crepes
photo by Nimz_
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
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Crepes
- 236.59 ml all-purpose flour
- 1.23 ml baking powder
- 1.23 ml salt
- 295.73 ml milk
- 1 egg
- 14.79 ml butter, melted
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Filling
- 354.88 ml finely cut up cooked chicken
- 118.29 ml diced carrot
- 118.29 ml diced celery
- 118.29 ml diced onion
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Gravy
- 44.37 ml butter
- 44.37 ml flour
- 2.46 ml salt
- 473.18 ml chicken broth
directions
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Crepes:
- Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
- Stir in remaining ingredients.
- Beat with electric mixer until smooth.
- Lightly butter small skillet; heat over medium heat until bubbly.
- For each crepe, pour 1/4 cup of the batter into skillet.
- Immediately rotate skillet until thin film of batter covers bottom.
- Cook until light brown, turn, and cook other side until light brown.
- Stack crepes, covering with a towel to prevent drying out while preparing filling.
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Gravy:
- Heat butter over low heat until melted in a sauce pan.
- Blend in flour and salt.
- Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth and bubbly.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in broth.
- Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.
- Boil and stir 1 minute.
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Filling:
- Sauté carrots, celery and onion in a little bit of oil in a skillet until tender.
- Mix chicken, vegetables, and just enough gravy to coat everything nicely in a bowl.
- Put about 1/4 cup of mixture on center of each crepe and roll up.
- Place crepes seam side down in a 9x13 baking dish.
- Pour remaining gravy over crepes.
- Bake uncovered in 350°F oven until crepes are hot, about 20 minutes.
- Can be frozen before baking, just thaw completely before putting in the oven.
- Also can freeze filling and crepes separate, just make sure to place wax paper between crepes before freezing.
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Reviews
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We love these!! I've been using the same recipe for several years as given to me by my sister and the only thing I do different is grate the carrots and use just a shot of cooking spray in the pan for making the crepes. It's a bit of work, but well worth the outcome! I always serve mine with white rice and use 1/2 chicken broth for the liquid portion to give it a little zip. Leftover these are delicious too! Thanks for sharing!
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We really enjoyed these, so I'll have to record my modifications for future reference. I made the crepes as directed but generally prefer them thinner, so next time I will add more milk. (Not to mention I only got 5 9" crepes.) I used thick-sliced deli turkey instead of diced chicken. I didn't want to serve them as a casserole, so I decreased the gravy- 2 TBSP each of butter and flour, and only 1 cup of broth. This gravy got perfectly thick, then I added all of it to the meat mixture. We filled our crepes, rolled them up, and ate them with a fork. Yummy! (Could add more veggies next time; my version doesn't make much filling.)
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This tasted a lot like chicken and dumplings and we loved it. I added some garlic to the veggie mixture and think I might experiment with other herbs and maybe add additional veggies such as mushrooms and peppers to increase the flavor combination, but all in all this was an excellent dish. A little time consuming but well worth the effort. We have plenty of leftovers. Thanks so much for sharing. Made for PAC Spring 2011 :)
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This is very similar to the recipe that i use from an old Betty Crocker cookbook. I don't like celery or carrots so I substitute mushrooms and green peppers and add some chopped apple. I also add a little bit of sage to the filling along with salt and pepper. My DH and DD loves them. I usually triple the recipe and freeze what is left over for another night. Very Very Good.
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Tweaks
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We really enjoyed these, so I'll have to record my modifications for future reference. I made the crepes as directed but generally prefer them thinner, so next time I will add more milk. (Not to mention I only got 5 9" crepes.) I used thick-sliced deli turkey instead of diced chicken. I didn't want to serve them as a casserole, so I decreased the gravy- 2 TBSP each of butter and flour, and only 1 cup of broth. This gravy got perfectly thick, then I added all of it to the meat mixture. We filled our crepes, rolled them up, and ate them with a fork. Yummy! (Could add more veggies next time; my version doesn't make much filling.)
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I am a mother of 3. One boy (8) and two girls (6) and (1). I'm a stay at home mom who runs her butt off! I love to cook, when I have time. It's fun to experiment with new recipes and ideas. I like to try "fancy" dishes sometimes, but on a day to day basis I just cook pretty plain and normal, like burgers, spaghetti, etc. Got to keep the kids happy and full!