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Crepe Nonats

Created by Graham Kerr for Nice, France.

Courses: Starters and appetizers
Serves: 4 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Batter
1 cup 62g / 2.2ozFlour
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground white pepper - to taste
1   Egg
1   Egg yolk
1 1/4 cups 296mlMilk
2 tablespoons 30mlButter
  Assembly
3 tablespoons 45mlButter
6 tablespoons 90mlFlour
1 1/4 cups 296mlFish stock
  Salt - to taste
  Freshly-ground white pepper - to taste
  Clarified butter - as neded
4 oz 113gMushrooms - finely sliced
1/2   Lemon - juiced
1   Tomato - cored, seeded, (medium)
  And flesh roughly chopped
3/4 cup 177mlWhipping cream
1/4 cup 36g / 1.3ozGrated Parmesan cheese
1/8 cup 29mlDry sherry
1/2 lb 227g / 8ozNonats or canned tuna

Recipe Instructions

For pancake batter: Sift flour into bowl, season with salt and pepper. Slowly beat in whole egg, egg yolk, and milk. Set aside for 4 hours in cool place. When ready to cook, melt 2 tablespoons butter in small omelet pan and pour in batter, covering base with a thin layer. Cook each side until light brown. Make 4 pancakes total. Keep them warm.

Preheat broiler. Melt 3 tablespoons butter in heated pan and add flour. Cook 3 minutes, without coloring. Slowly stir in 1/2 of fish stock and bring to a boil. Add remaining stock and reduce heat and simmer. Season with salt and white pepper.

Meanwhile, heat clarified butter in frying pan and add mushrooms. Fry gently. Add lemon juice and salt and pepper. Add tomatoes and simmer gently.

To fish sauce, add cream and cheese, stirring thoroughly to melt cheese. Add sherry, then tomato and mushroom mixture. Cover fish with sauce.

Place crepe on serving dish, top with sauced fish in center and roll up. Repeat with remaining pancakes. Once rolled, pour remaining sauce over top of crepes and place under broiler for 2 minutes to brown.

This recipe yields 4 servings.

Source:
THE GALLOPING GOURMET with Graham Kerr - (Show # GA-0248) - from the - TV FOOD NETWORK

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