Crespelle with Mushrooms and Truffle Oil
- 1-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- 5 eggs
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 5 tbsp. unsalted butter, divided
- 16 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed, and cut in half
- 1 oz. dried porcini mushrooms, soaked in 1 cup hot water for 10 minutes
- 1 md. Spanish onion, finely chopped
- 3 fl. oz. extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 fl. oz. white truffle oil
- 2 cups milk
- 3-1/2 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 3 tbsp. flour
- 1 dash salt
- Put flour in a large mixing bowl and slowly drizzle with milk, stirring constantly to avoid making lumps.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating with a fork until a thin batter is formed.
- Add salt and let stand 20 minutes.
- Place a 6-inch non-stick pan over medium-low heat and heat one minute.
- Add 1 tsp.
- of butter to hot pan and tilt to coat pan.
- Add approximately 1/3 cup of batter to pan, again tilting and turning to coat pan evenly and cook crepe until it is set on bottom, approximately 30 seconds.
- Flip with spatula, cook another 30 seconds and remove to plate.
- Continue cooking crepes until batter is gone, stacking one on top of the other.
- Drain porcini mushrooms, reserving the liquid, and roughly chop.
- In a 12-inch saute pan, saute onion in olive oil until light brown over medium heat, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Add shiitake and porcini and cook until brown and softened over medium heat, 3 to 4 minutes.
- Add reserved water from the porcini mushrooms and cook until liquid is just moistening the mushrooms.
- Set aside to cool.
- Heat the milk over low flame until it is steaming hot but not boiling.
- While milk is heating, melt the butter in a separate pan, also over low heat, until it smells slightly nutty, but has not yet browned.
- Slowly whisk in the butter mixture into the hot milk until it is incorporated.
- Continue stirring with whisk until milk thickens to a thin pudding-like consistency.
- Season with salt and remove from heat.
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Butter a baking pan large enough to hold crespelle.
- Stir the cooled mushroom mix, the truffle oil and 1/2 of the bechamel together in a mixing bowl until well mixed.
- Lay the crespelle on the counter and divide the mushroom mix evenly among them, 2 to 3 tbsp.
- each.
- Fold the crespelle into a half-moon and again into a quarter-moon.
- Lay the crespelle into the buttered baking dish, overlapping with the point toward the top and the thinner layers facing down.
- Dot the top of each crespelle with a scant teaspoon of the bechamel.
- Bake in oven 15 minutes until the tops are slightly crispy and the bechamel has melted over.
- Allow to stand 5 minutes outside oven and serve.
flour, milk, eggs, salt, unsalted butter, shiitake mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, spanish onion, extravirgin olive oil, truffle oil, milk, unsalted butter, flour, salt
Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/5242 (may not work)