Crepes with spinach and mushrooms

CREPES WITH SPINACH AND MUSHROOMS

Batter

Ingredients for 12 crepes

1 cup water

1 cup cold milk

4 large eggs

1/2 teaspoon salt

300 g. flour

60 g. melted butter

Instructions

Pour all liquids in the mixer bowl. Beat them on medium speed for two minutes.

Add the flour into the bowl. Stir with a spoon, to mix with the other ingredients. 
Beat all the ingredients on high speed for five minutes.
Put the bowl in the refrigerator for two hours.

The flour needs two hours to swell. This is necessary for the crepes to become light. 
While waiting for the batter to rise, prepare the sauce and vegetable filling.

Cooking the crepe

Use nonstick pan 16 cm in diameter.
Put 2-3 drops of oil in the pan and place it over low heat. When the oil is warm, put a ladle of batter, in the pan.
When the crepe is cooked on one side, unsticks easily from the pan.

Use a spatula to turn it upside down and cook it on the other side.

When crepes are properly cooked they have a light brown color. 
Frizz all crepes and place one on top of another.

Filling

Ingredients for the sauce

70 g. margarine or butter

60 g. flour

630 g. warm milk

Salt to taste

70 g. whipping cream 35% fat

1 cup grated cheese

Ingredients for the filling

1.5 cup sauteed spinach

200 g. Philadelphia cream Cheese

1 egg

1 cup chopped and sauteed mushrooms

Instructions
Sauce

Put the milk in a small pot.

Place the pot over medium heat to boil the milk.

Once it starts to boil, remove the pan from the heat.

Put the butter in a medium saucepan.

Place it over medium heat.

Mix the butter to melt.

Stir in the flour and Cooke it until its color become beige.

Remove the pot from the heat and pour in the hot milk. Add salt and pepper.

Mix with hand blender, to dissolve the flour into the milk.

Return the saucepan over low heat and when it stats boiling, pour in the cheese and cream.

Stir briefly and remove the pan from the heat.

Filling

Instructions

Divide the sauce into two parts.

Put half of the sauce into the filling.

Mix it with spinach, egg, Philadelphia cream cheese and mushrooms.

Put aside the other half of the sauce to use it later.

How to make a crepe

Get a crepe and put filling only in the half of it.

Fold the crepe so that it covers the filling and continue wrapping to make a cylinder.

Place the crepes in shallow baking pan, one next to the other.

Continue with the crepes in the same way until you run out of stuffing.

Spread with a spatula the remaining sauce over the crepes.

Take care that the sauce spreads evenly everywhere.

Put a little grated cheese over the sauce.

Put the baking pan with the crepes in the oven on the middle rack and bake for 20 minutes at 175 degrees Celsius.

When they are ready, they take a light brown color.                        

This dish is light and has a wonderful flavor.

It is suitable for banquets.