These Mushroom and Asparagus Crêpes are the perfect savoury treat. Serve them up as lunch or a light dinner. Add smoked tofu for an extra bacon-like flavour. Get the recipe below.
Vegan crêpes
French crêpes are one of my favourite dishes. They are incredibly versatile and have inspired me to make a whole range of flavours over the years. From sweet to savoury, you call fill and top them with almost anything you like - provided it's vegan of course!
Traditionally crêpes are made with milk, butter and eggs but using vegan substitutes (such as plant milk, baking powder and vegan butter or margarine), you can easily make light, delicate crêpes that are suitable for a plant based diet.
To make them all you do is whisk the ingredients together until you have a lump free, lightly bubbly recipe. You then pour the batter into a crêpe pan (just a little at a time), cook, flip, then serve!
Savoury pancakes
I think crêpes make a great light lunch or dinner. Of course you could serve up sweet pancakes for dinner but I prefer to make them savoury.
One of my favourite savoury fillings is vegan cream cheese, mushrooms, asparagus and chives.
These Cheesy Mushroom and Asparagus Crêpes do take a few pans to make - you'll need a saucepan for the mushrooms, a steamer over a pan of water for the asparagus and then a crêpe pan or large flat bottomed saucepan. It may be a lot of washing up but I promise it is worth it!
The mushrooms are cooked off in a little vegan butter to make them rich and buttery. And, the asparagus is steamed so they are just turning soft - we don't want soggy limp asparagus.
You can choose whichever vegan cream cheese you like to spread over the pancakes. I like to use Nush or Boursin who now do a vegan spread.
The chives over the top add a little extra seasoning which I love.
Optional extras
Want to add some protein to this dish? I've also stuffed them with some thinly sliced smoked tofu. It gives it an almost bacon-like flavour which I love. And it makes them an even more filling meal.
If you want to include it in your recipe then fry it off in your crêpe or frying pan first. Keep it to one side while you make the pancakes then add it on top of the cream cheese when you're ready to serve.
The recipe
Vegan Cheesy Mushroom and Asparagus Crêpes
Equipment
- 1 Crêpe pan or flat bottomed frying pan
Ingredients
For the filling
- 1 tablespoon vegan butter
- 250 g chestnut mushrooms thinly sliced
- 250 g asparagus woody stems removed
- 4 tablespoon vegan cream cheese
For the pancake batter
- 200 g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 425 ml soy milk or another unsweetened plant milk
- 15 g vegan butter
- salt and pepper to season
- 1 tablespoon oil for cooking
To garnish
- 1 tablespoon chives chopped
Instructions
To make the filling
- Fill a saucepan with boiling water. Place a steamer over the top with the asparagus and steam for 10-15 minutes or until tender.
- In the meantime, melt the butter in a sauce pan then add the sliced mushrooms.
- Cook for 5 minutes until soft and buttery.
To make the pancakes
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour and baking powder.
- In a separate jug, mix the soy milk and melted butter.
- Slowly pour these wet ingredients into the flour, first to create a paste and then adding slowly to make a smooth, thin batter.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Once all of the ingredients are combined mix well to ensure the batter is completely smooth and to create little air bubbles.
- Brush your pan with a little oil and then heat on a medium heat.
- Hold your hand a few centimetres away from the pan to see if it is hot. Once you can feel the heat, pour over some of the batter and swirl it around the pan until you have a thin circle.
- Cook until the underside is golden underneath then flip it to cook it on the other side.
- Once golden on both sides place on to a warm plate and repeat until you've used up all of the batter.
- Keep warm in an oven placed on a low heat.
To assemble
- Spread your first pancake with vegan cream cheese.
- Spoon over some of the mushrooms and a couple of asparagus stems.
- Roll up then repeat with the rest of the pancakes.
- Sprinkle over the chives and serve.
Nutrition
More vegan pancake recipes
If you like these savoury crêpes you might like some of these other savoury pancake recipes.
For the full range of pancake recipes on the blog check out my pancake recipe roundup.
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