Low Fat Crepes with Strawberry
Syrup
A sweet and fruity dessert. Try your own fruit flavoured fillings if you wish. Blueberries also work well.
Makes 8 Crepes.
Syrup
1 x 300g pkt frozen strawberries, defrosted(or fresh)
lcup water
3/4 cup artificial sweetenerpowder
ltbsp cornflour, mixed with 1 tbsp wafer
Crepes
lcup whiteplainflour, sifted
pinchsalt
1 egg
1 egg white
1 1/4 cups skim milk
ltbsp icingsugar
fresh strawberries for decoration
Place strawberries, water and sweetener in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 2 minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in the cornflour mixture. Return pan to heat and stir until mixture thickens and clears (about 5 minutes). Keep warm.
Combine the eggs and milk and whisk into the sifted flour and salt. Keep whisking until mixture is smooth.
Heat a non-stick frypan (sprayed with vegetable I~ oil spray) over moderate/high heat and pour'/e of the crepe batter into the pan. Cook for 1 - 2 minutes or until lightly browned on each side.
Repeat until all crepes are cooked. (Keep cooked crepes warm on a plate in a slow oven while you are cooking the rest.)
Spoon some of the strawberry syrup down the centre of each crepe, roll up and sprinkle with sifted icing sugar.