Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Socas w/ fresh Herbs (gluten free crepes)

Socas are Garbanzo flour crepes. Typically they are made with half wheat flour and half Garbanzo (chickpea or grao) flour. However, I wanted some gluten-free kind. Like all my cooking I don’t really measure, so this is my best guess:

* 2 cups of Garbanzo flour
* 1 cup of rice flour
* 2 large well beaten eggs
* 1/2 tsp. of salt
* coconut milk (about 1/2 cup??) thinned out with warm water (3 cups maybe???)
* 1 Tbsp. Fresh chives, 1 Tbsp. fresh chopped Parsley, 1 Tbsp. fresh chopped cilantro
* 1 large clove of garlic, mashed and chopped as finely as possible

Mix together the dry ingredients into a bowl, and then add the eggs and start adding the coconut milk-warm water mix, and mix with a fork or whisk keep adding the liquid until you have a non-lumpy, very thin pancake-like batter (***It must be a very runny batter or it won’t work right). Then mix in your herbs and garlic.

On a very hot pan (preferably a cast iron skillet) add a very light coating of coconut oil (olive oil or butter) and ladle on with a small ladle, about 2 Tbsp. of batter and quickly pick up the pan (with a hot pad please) to swirl around the batter in the pan into the thinnest possible pancake you can make. Cook on one side until the bubbles start to show through and the edges start to go from glossy to opaque. Then flip over for a few seconds more and transfer to a platter with a cover or towel to keep warm while you finish the rest. There is a very fine art to crepe making, and I hope this is a decent explanation. (lucky me, I learned in person from a French girl who grew up with them).

For filling, there are numerous possibilities, today I made both a simple sauteed onion, garlic and tomato filling for dinner, but for lunch I did: roasted pumpkin cubes with sage, sauteed mushrooms, garlic and rosemary, and sauteed spinach and garlic. The sauce I made was a combo of my homemade mayonnaise and my homemade spaghetti sauce mixed together to divine-ness.

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