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Florentine style crêpes with spinach and ricotta

Recipe: Florentine style crêpes - pancakes filled with spinach and ricotta

Prep Time 50 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Total Time 1 hr
Course Main Course, Main Dish
Cuisine Italian
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Pancakes

  • 200 g flour wheat flour
  • 600 ml milk
  • 3 eggs
  • butter
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp ground ginger optional
  • ½ tsp ground cardamom optional

Filling

  • 200 g fresh spinach
  • 250 g ricotta
  • 200 ml parmesan finely grated
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ½ tsp black pepper
  • ½ tsp muscot

Bechamel sauce

  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp tbsp flour
  • 250 ml milk
  • salt

Tomato sauce

  • 400 g crushed tomatoes
  • 75 g butter
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar

To finish

  • 200 ml parmesan grated
  • basil fresh

Instructions
 

Pancakes

  • Mix the pancake batter
  • Butter two pans and heat to medium high (it will go much quicker than using just one pan..)
  • Use a ladle to add just enough batter to cover the pan after tilting it, fry on rather high temperature for a few seconds then flip and fry a couple of more seconds on the other side. The pancake only need to firm up and get some light brown coloring
  • Stack the pancakes on a plate until they are all done, then set aside while you prepare the rest. You can of course also use leftover pancakes for these crêpes
  • Heat up the oven to 250°C (480°F)

Filling

  • Chop the spinach, then fry in some butter in one of the pancake pans
  • Mix spinach with the remaining ingredients of the filling, then set aside

Bechamel sauce

  • Melt the butter in one of the frying pans, then mix with the flour before adding the milk
  • Bring the sauce to a boil and let it simmer for around 3 min while stirring
  • Spice with salt and pour into an oven proof form that can fit around 10 crêpes

Assemble

  • Add a heaping tablespoon of filling to a pancake and spread it out evenly
  • Fold in the sides a little, then roll it together. Place in the oven form and repeat for the remaining crêpes (should be sufficient for 10 crêpes)
  • Sprinkle the parmesan over the pancakes and bake for 10 min in the oven
  • Meanwhile crêpes are baking you can add all ingredients of the tomato sauce in a small pot and boil for around 10 min before adding salt and sugar to taste.
  • Serve crêpes hot with the tomato sauce and add a few leaves of fresh basil as decoration
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