Bacon, Caramelised Onions And Cheese Crepes Recipe

Bacon, Caramelised Onions And Cheese Crepes is a classic French crepe recipe where the crepes are stuffed with bits of crispy bacon, sweet caramelised onions and soft, melted cheese. It makes for a delicious continental breakfast!

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Bacon, Caramelised Onions And Cheese Crepes Recipe
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Bacon and Caramelised Onions Cheese Crepes Recipe is a classic French recipe, with a savoury filling. This thin paper like smooth crepe is filled with crispy-crunchy bacon, soft and sweet caramelised onions and stringy soft cheese. It is a perfect dish to serve for your weekend breakfast or brunch.

Crepe is a French word for pancakes. Crepes are very thin pancakes that can be folded easily. It has a soft melt in mouth texture due to the use of eggs and milk. 

Serve crepes as a hearty sunday breakfast or as heavy evening snack on a holiday. 

Serve these Bacon and Caramelised Onions Cheese Crepes Recipe along with some cut fresh fruits or Cantaloupe Pomegranate and Mint Juice Recipe or Watermelon Carrot Radish Juice Recipe for a complete breakfast.

If you like this recipe Bacon, Caramelised Onions And Cheese Crepes, here are a few more crepes recipe you can try for your weekend breakfast:

  1. Spinach Ricotta filled Crepes with Pepper Cream Sauce
  2. Mango & Fruit Filled Creme Crepe Recipe
  3. Chicken Crepe Lasagne Recipe

Cuisine: French
Course: World Breakfast
Diet: Non Vegeterian
Prep in

10 M

Cooks in

12 M

Total in

22 M

Makes:

2 Servings

Ingredients

    For the crepes
  • 1/2 cup All Purpose Flour (Maida)
  • 2 tablespoons Confectioners sugar , Or powdered sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 tablespoons Oil
  • 1 Whole Egg
  • 3/4 cup Milk
  • For the filling
  • 6 Bacon strips , cut into bits
  • 1 Onion , finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Butter (Salted)
  • Cheese , as per your tasete
  • Salt , to taste
  • 1 teaspoon Black pepper powder
  • 1 teaspoon Mixed Herbs (Dried)

How to make Bacon, Caramelised Onions And Cheese Crepes Recipe

  1. To begin making the Bacon, Caramelised Onions And Cheese Crepes Recipe, first thaw the bacon strips if using frozen ones.

  2. To make the crepes, in a large mixing bowl, combine all purpose flour, powdered sugar and salt. Combine everything well. 

  3. Next add in the oil, egg and milk. Whisk well to ensure there are no lumps and you have a nice smooth batter. (The batter can be as thin as a dosa batter)

  4. Heat a skillet, on high heat, until the skillet begins to smoke, turn the heat down. Grease the pan with butter and wipe it with a tissue paper.

  5. Next, pour a ladle full of batter on the skillet, lift it with the handle and swirl it around, in a way that the batter spreads on the entire skillet.

  6. Cook on low heat for 2-3 minutes, you will see the that the crepe is almost cooked leaving no wet patches of the batter,  flip on the other side for a minute and take it off the skillet and place it on a plate.

  7. Ensure that your crepes get absolutely no colour or maybe just a tad bit of brown.

  8. The next step is to make the filling for the crepes.

  9. For Bacon and Caramelised Onions Cheese filling, in a pan, add butter and heat on medium flame.

  10. Add the sliced onions, sugar and saute till the onions are soft and have turned into a nice golden brown colour.

  11. Turn off the flame, add salt, pepper, mixed herbs and mix.

  12. Heat the same pan on medium heat and add the bits of bacon, saute for about 4-6 minutes or until you get crisp bits of bacon.

  13. Add this to the onion mixture and mix well.

  14. The final step is to assemble the Bacon, Caramelised Onions And Cheese Crepes.

  15. Keep the crepe flat on the plate, and place the bacon and onion filling on one quarter of the crepe.

  16. Sprinkle cheese generously on the filling and fold it into a triangle. To get a triangle shape, first fold into a semi-circle, then fold the semi-circle into half again.

  17. Microwave this filled crepe for one minute on high heat to melt the cheese.

  18. Serve these Bacon and Caramelised Onions Cheese Crepes Recipe along with some cut fresh fruits or Cantaloupe Pomegranate and Mint Juice Recipe or Watermelon Carrot Radish Juice Recipe for a complete breakfast.