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Breakfast burrito crepes

26 Thursday Jun 2014

Posted by Zoli in breakfast, crepes, french, quick and awesome, Sauces, tex mex, Vegetarian

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breakfast, breakfast burrito, chipotle, chipotle cream, crepes, egg and avocado, salsa verde, stuffed crepes, vegetarian

finished crepes

Sometimes I really think I shouldn’t work. While it’s true that I always don’t want to work, sometimes I am convinced that it’s in everyone’s best interest if I just did not work at all.

Work has been slug-paced this week, so this morning I woke up early with the dog, made coffee and took her walking through the woods up on the mountain. It was beautiful. A terrific thunderstorm had torn the roof off the sucker in the night and the woods were still so wet that every breeze through the trees sent waterfalls splattering down through the leaves and branches. The sunlight stopped here and there on its way down, dappling the greenery. The earth itself was a fairy carpet of slender wild grass, bright moss and these cute neon green plants that I don’t know anything about but they have thin, fern-like leaves and grow about 6 inches high. My dog and I walked through the woods for about 45 minutes and then she played in the dog park for another half an hour. We were both a little hungry when we got home and so you know what I wanted to do? Make a big ole mess of crepes for everybody (my son was home and my hubby was working in the living room). A couple of the crepes got slathered in nutella for my son and the rest got stuffed with egg, cheese and avocado. On top of that I put chipotle cream, shredded mozzarella cheese and salsa verde. They looked good. They were good. My husband was very happy. I was happy. I am happy. I wish this were my full-time job but, hey, it almost is.

assembling crepes
crepes rolled up
almost finished crepes

If you think these sound good, they are quite simple. You could even use warm corn tortillas if you don’t want to make crepes, but I like the soft sponginess of a crepe pancake.

Ingredients for crepe batter
makes about 6-8 crepes
1 cup white flour
1 cup milk
1/2 cup cold water
sprinkle of salt
2 tbs melted butter
2 eggs

1) Whisk everything except the butter by hand, in a blender or with a handheld whisk till all lumps are gone. Then whisk in the melted butter. The batter should be quite runny, like cream or half n half.
2) Heat up a non-stick pan very hot, brush just a teeny bit of oil or butter around the pan (or not). Ladle in some batter and then lift up the frying pan with two hands and swirl around as fast and hard as you can to get a very thin papery circle of batter. These do not have to be pretty and perfect as you are rolling them up and covering them in cheese.
3) Cook on once side till golden brown (about a minute or less). Flip with a soft, thin spatula and cook the other side. Pile on a plate and repeat till all batter gone.

For the filling
Makes 3 stuffed crepes. Double or triple the recipe as you like
3 cooked crepes
3-4 eggs
handful chives or green onion, chopped
1 soft avocado
handful of shredded mozzarella or cheddar

For the topping
Chipotle cream*
cheese
salsa verde or other salsa
fresh cilantro
greek yogurt or sour cream (optional)

*This post includes a recipe for chipotle cream. It is 1 small pot of heavy cream, 1-2 cloves garlic, 1-2 smoked chipotles in adobo sauce, salt and pepper, blitzed.

1) Sautee the chives or green onion briefly in butter, then add in the eggs. Soft scramble them. No need to season.
2) Split all the filling between the three crepes and roll up.
3) Cover with chipotle cream–about 1-2 tbs over each crepe and then sprinkle with cheese.
4) Put under the broiler for a couple minutes until cheese melted and bubbly.
5) Spoon over salsa verde. Serve with other toppings of your choice such as hot sauce, greek yogurt, cilantro, chopped tomato, etc.

This would be an easy thing to serve at a brunch as everything could be prepared in advance. Just before serving, roll them all up, warm in an oven and then finish by melting the cheese under the broiler.

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Huevos rancheros with chipotle

14 Friday Mar 2014

Posted by Zoli in breakfast, cheese, gluten free, quick and awesome, Sauces, tex mex, Vegetarian

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avocado, chipotle, corn tortillas, Huevos rancheros, salsa, vegetarian breakfast

huevos rancheros final

This is what I felt like making today and what my lucky lucky husband felt like eating. Me, myself and I never (ever) eat sunnyside-up eggs but I do love to fry them and look at them. They’re striking and pretty… in a gross way.

He also requested a side of beans and rice like he gets in his Cuban cafe for lunch, but that would simply take too much of my time. Huevos rancheros on their own, like this, are quick, simple and easy. There are a gazillion recipes for huevos rancheros as we all know. This is just one of them.

Ingredients for 2 ppl
4 corn tortillas
4 eggs
olive oil
grated cheese such as queso fresco
any sides such as sour cream, greek yogurt, avocado, hot sauce, rice and beans

for the warm chipotle salsa
1 200g can diced tomatoes (no salt added)
1/2 onion, diced
1/2 bell pepper, diced
3 cloves garlic, crushed and sliced
1 jalapeno chili, deseeded and chopped
1/2 to 1 whole chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, chopped*
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
salt and pepper to taste

* If you don’t have these chipotles in adobo sauce, skip them and add in chopped pickled jalapeno or use chipotle powder for the smoky flavor and extra spice.

1) First make the salsa. Heat up olive oil in a frying pan and sauté the chopped onion, garlic, chilies and peppers on a med-high heat for a couple minutes.
2) Add in the can of diced tomatoes. Ground the cumin seeds in a mortar and pestle and add these in with a few grinds of salt and pepper. Then add in the chopped chipotle pepper.
3) Bring to a simmer and then turn heat down to med-low and cook for about 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and set aside.
4) Next heat up olive oil in a small frying pan and fry the tortillas one by one to soften and warm. They don’t take long. Less than a minute on each side. Lay 2 tortillas on each plate.
5) Heat up a little more oil and crack two eggs in. Cook the sunnyside up eggs the way you like and then set them on the tortillas.
6) Warm up the salsa and then ladle it over the eggs, as much as you like.
7) Serve with grated cheese and other sides and condiments.
Enjoy! If you have these with a paloma (fresh grapefruit juice, tequila and a squirt of lime juice, then you will REALLY have a great morning. Spring is coming!

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