Buckwheat Crepes with Tangerine Butter and Poached Kumquats

  1. Prepare and cook: 12 Buckwheat Crepes (opposite).
  2. Stack the crepes as they are cooked.
  3. Dont refrigerate them if you are using them within a few hours.
  4. Prepare: Poached kumquats (page 365).
  5. Prepare the tangerine butter.
  6. Remove, with a fine grater, the zest from: 1 tangerine.
  7. Cut the fruit in half and squeeze the juice into a measuring cup.
  8. In a small bowl mix together: 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter, softened, 2 tablespoons sugar.
  9. Beat until soft and creamy and then, with a fork, stir in the zest and half of the tangerine juice.
  10. When mixed stir in: 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier or Cointreau.
  11. This will take a while, but keep stirring until the liquid is incorporated.
  12. If possible add a bit more of the tangerine juice.
  13. The butter will appear lumpy; this is not a problem.
  14. Remove a crepe from the stack and, with the pale side up, spread a spoonful of butter over half of the crepe.
  15. Fold the crepe in two over the butter, and then in half again to make a triangle.
  16. Repeat with the rest of the crepes.
  17. Lay them out in a buttered baking dish in slightly overlapping rows.
  18. If desired, sprinkle them lightly with more liqueur.
  19. Right before serving, bake the crepes in a preheated 350F oven for 5 to 8 minutes to warm through.
  20. While the crepes are heating in the oven, warm the poached kumquats.
  21. Serve the crepes hot from the oven and top each serving with a few spoonfuls of poached kumquats and their syrup.
  22. Serve the crepes with the segments of 3 tangerines, raw with their juice, instead of the poached kumquats.
  23. Instead of the tangerine, use an orange or a blood orange to make the butter.
  24. Use only 1 teaspoon of its zest and start with about one third of its juice.
  25. Serve with vanilla ice cream or tangerine sherbet.

kumquats, tangerine, butter, sugar, grand marnier

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/buckwheat-crepes-with-tangerine-butter-and-poached-kumquats-387300 (may not work)

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