Chicken Florentine Crepe (Ihop's Copycat)

Lyreen's Note:

I just love this dish! I never knew how yummy spinach can be till I tried this entree in IHOP. It was a limited time only dish and when they took it out, I searched through the internet for the recipe but couldn't find one so I decided to take the matters into my own hands! This recipe is really easy and the ingredients may already be in your fridge! Serve it alone or with garlic bread or steamed veggies on the side. Notes: You can substitute chicken with leftover turkey or chicken rotisserie, lets face it, nobody ever eats those leftover turkey and rotisserie! You can also serve this as an appetizer. Just cook smaller proportions of crepes. And for those on protein diet, substitute the crepe with omelet!

• Total Time: 40 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 6

Yield: 12.0 crepes

Chicken Florentine

• 1 lb chicken breast (boneless, skinless, cubed)
• 3 garlic cloves (minced)
• 1 (10 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
• 4 ounces cheddar cheese (your preference, I prefer both!) or 4 ounces swiss cheese (your preference, I prefer both!)
• 10 ounces spinach (frozen or fresh, chopped, I prefer fresh)
• ½ cup milk
• 2 tablespoons butter
• parmesan cheese (optional)
• salt and pepper

Crepe

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup milk
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon melted butter
• ½ teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Combine flour, milk, eggs, butter and salt in a bowl. beat until all the flour lumps are gone. the consistency will be like thin pancake batter. set aside.
2. Sauté chicken and garlic on butter until golden brown.
3. Pour in milk and cream of chicken. simmer. reduce to low to medium heat.
4. After simmer, put the spinach and cheese inches keep stirring until the cheese completely melts. salt and pepper to taste. make sure the bottom wont stick. keep simmering until the sauce is reduced.
5. While the chicken is simmering, start cooking the crepes. in a lightly greased skillet, pour about 3 tbsp of batter and spread it as thin as possible. do not flip. in about 1 minute, check the bottom side of the crepe if light brown. cook only one side of the crepe or else it will be crunchy.
6. By the time you're done with the crepes, chicken should be done too. pour about 3/4 cup of chicken on each crepe on the center. wrap each side. top lightly with parmesan cheese.

Reviews

[FrankR]

ok I've tried this recipe twice now. once with cream of mushroom soup and once with cream of chicken. I have to say I prefer the cream of mushroom better. one tip that I learned from the first time is to make all the crepes first putting them on a plate, then fill them and put them back in the pan to warm.

[Jennz28]

Very tasty dish, I did change a couple things, I added kernal corn in with the chicken when I added the spinich and cheese, and also used a holandaise sauce that was in an easy to make sauce packet. A friend of mine brought me a real ihop chicken florentine crepe and I believe they used something sweet like brown sugar in with their crepe batter. I didn't try it, but for anyone who may want to it was pretty good in the original. I think next time, instead of the plain cream of chicken, campbells makes a garlic cream of chicken with mushroom that would probably work pretty good with this recipe. I also used my own seasoning in with the chicken along with the garlic.

[CulinaryExplorer]

This is very close to the real thing! I went with half cheddar and half swiss but I think the real thing probably uses all swiss and I might do that next time as well. I added some sauteed mushrooms to it as well since I always wished there was a cross between these crepes and the garden crepes. One thing I did do differently however was to use my own crepe recipe I am used to. It's slightly different in measurements and from the looks of it is probably thinner. I also made a blender hollandaise sauce to go over top which was perfect.