This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was an interesting once – buckwheat crêpes filled with seaweed butter, rolled and fried in a butter. Um, ok?
Now, I’ve been to the Breizh Café of which he speaks in the recipe headnote but to be honest, I’ve never noticed the filled and rolled crêpes on the menu. Because there’s this:
And I’ve made buckwheat crêpes before too…
From My Paris Kitchen…
For this recipe, I wasn’t able to “wave each sheet of seaweed over a low gas flame” since we don’t have gas at home. So I tried crisping it up under the broiler. Hmmm… it didn’t get super crispy but I maybe didn’t leave it long enough since I was paranoid about it burning. I used 1/4 of the recipe to make 3 crêpes but the idea of putting the seaweed in butter and spreading it on the crêpes before rolling them and frying them still wasn’t working for me (I am not a seaweed fan, generally). I spread the tiniest amount of butter inside and popped the rolls in the frying pan again alongside a few tiny strips of seaweed that I fried until crispy (that texture seemed to be a better match for the seaweed). I served the crispy bits on top of the crêpes but to be honest, I couldn’t eat most of this. I guess the combination of a flavour I don’t love along with a *slightly* too greasy texture just didn’t do it for me. I *did* like the crispy seaweed though – kind of like mini chip strips. Oh, well, you can’t win ’em all, right?
Get the recipe for David Lebovitz’s Buckwheat Rolls with Seaweed Butter on p 47 of My Paris Kitchen.
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Hi Mardi, I’m not sure if I loved these or loved cooking a recipe for the group 🙂
My detour into vegan and paleo food made me used to buckwheat flour and we love sushi so the kids actually loved these!
I love the flavour of buckwheat, just not prepared like this!
I think we both had the same reaction to this recipe. I do love the buckwheat crepes, but just this way. At least we tried it.
Definitely!
Not my favorite either. I do love the seaweed garnish on yours. It makes them at least *look* better!
Well I tried!
I liked the buckwheat galettes that we made. Sorry this wasn’t your cup of tea. I haven’t made this yet but already was skeptical.
Right? It’s just a little odd for my tastes…