Do you like pancakes as much I do? Let's call them fancy - crepes. Because these are not your regular pancakes with butter and maple syrup. These Strawberry Crepes are much more delicate and tender treat that you and your kids will love. The ingredients are simple and you can buy them in pretty much any grocery store.
Strawberry Crepes With Ricotta Cheese
I made these crepes with Ricotta cheese, but if you prefer, you can easily substitute with Mascarpone cheese. That way, the crepes will be more on a sweeter side. If you do use Mascarpone, you can omit sugar in the filling, since Mascarpone is already sweet.
Recipe
Ingredients
For crepes:
- 1 cup flour
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 cup boiling water
For filling:
- 8 oz strawberries hulled and quartered
- ¾ cup ricotta or mascarpone cheese
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest + more for garnish
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoon powdered sugar
Instructions
- Using a hand mixer, beat eggs and salt until foamy.
- Keep the mixer on and gradually add in boiling water, cold milk, flour and vegetable oil.
- Heat a lightly oiled frying pan over medium high heat.
- Pour ¼ cup of crepe batter into pan, tilting to completely coat the surface of the pan.
- Cook the crepe for about 1-2 minutes, until the bottom is light brown. Loosen with a spatula, turn and cook the other side.
- In a medium bowl, combine ricotta, lemon zest, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of sugar. Cover and refrigerate for about 20 mins.
- In a medium bowl, combine strawberries, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice.
- Spread each crepe with 1-2 tablespoon of ricotta mixture, fold into quarters and top with strawberries. Sprinkle with lemon zest.
- Enjoy!
Notes
If you're hesitant to use ricotta, try to substitute with Mascarpone cheese.
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Now, grab some ricotta and strawberries and start creating!
I hope you'll like this Strawberry Crepes recipe. Let me know in the comments below.
Meg @ Green With Decor says
Yum! I want to make these soon 🙂
Cynthia says
OH MY GOSH! I have to try this....SOON!
Cynthia @ craftoflaughter.com
Jessica @ Moxie and Mischief says
Yum, yum and yum!
Lisa @ Adventures of a Dream Catcher says
Love, love crepes with strawberries, but never thought about adding ricotta! I'll have to try it out with this extra twist. 🙂
Brea says
This sounds absolutely divine! I love crepes!!
Donna says
Yum, this sounds amazing. I am total;;y addicted to pancakes - add the strawberry and ricotta and I am definitely there 🙂
Kat | curlsnchard.com says
I love this combination - strawberries and ricotta are so nice together 🙂 Your crepe recipe sounds quite unique - I would be afraid that the egg starts getting flaky when you add boiling water? Has that happened to you?
Iryna says
No, egg didn't get flaky. Never happened to me. The trick is to work fast and don't turn off the mixer until the crepe mixture is ready:)
Justine Y @ Little Dove Creations says
We love crepes, in fact, we just had some for dinner last night. 🙂 And ricotta in crepes is sooooo delicious!
Sara says
We just went blueberry picking and my tastebuds are telling me that these crepes would be fabulous with them! 🙂 Thank you for sharing your recipe!!
Iryna says
Oh definitely, any berry would do:)
Liz says
Thanks Iryna
Tiara says
OH MY GOSH! This is like perfection in one blog post! I am definitely overdo for trying this recipe!
Cheyenne @Rosevine Cottage Girls says
These looks so good!
Christal says
Yummy! These look delicious. The one thing that I'm hesitant about is the ricotta...I still haven't found away to eat it yet that taste good to me. The texture keeps throwing me off lol so I might try it in this recipe, especially since you're whipping it with other ingredients. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Iryna says
I know, ricotta is a kind of cheese the person needs to get used to. If you're hesitant to use it, you can try to substitute it with mascarpone. It would be very delicious as well. I would just omit the sugar in the filling, because mascarpone is already sweet:)