Crêpes With Creamy Mushroom Sauce are an excellent choice for all savoury crêpes lovers. The creaminess and richness comes from cream cheese while herbs, garlic, smoked paprika, and garlic makes the sauce utterly aromatic and delightful.
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Also, are you ready for something fabulously decadent, rich, and scrumptious? I am talking about these Crêpes With Creamy Mushroom Sauce, of course.
Crêpes: sweet, savoury or plain?
Before we chat about this recipes, let me ask you, do you prefer your crêpes sweet, savoury or perhaps plain? Oh that’s such a hard question to me. Certainly I often enjoy them with some fruit or berry preserves or dulce de leche. If you know me a little, you can guess I will opt dulce de leche in 85.7% though! Also, since I grew up in Russia where sweetened condensed milk was a huge thing, I am not against it either! I know this might sound strange, but that’s quite good pairing. However, nothing can beat dulce de leche!
But I am also a huge fan of savoury fillings. So I won’t be able to give you a straightforward answer. What about sweet crêpes for breakfast and savoury for lunch or dinner? Or even better – plain for breakfast, savoury for lunch, and sweet for dessert. Can you manage this?! I probably can!
Anyway, here on the Havoc in The Kitchen you can find recipes to everyone’s taste.
More Crêpe Ideas
Crêpes – just a basic recipe which I always use. Keep in mind that since the flour varies (Thanks to protein and gluten ratio), so the batter might require a bit more of the liquid or flour. Since I do lots of eyeballing, I usually adjust it while making my first 2 or 3 crêpes.
Buckwheat lovers? These Gluten-Free Buckwheat Crêpes are for you!
If you’re on the sweet side, you might enjoy these Maple Butter Banana Sauce Crepes or these Fig Walnut Honey Crêpes.
And of course, I have some nice savoury ideas, too.
BBQ Pulled Chicken Buckwheat Crêpes
Crêpes With Creamy Mushroom Sauce
And these Crêpes With Creamy Mushroom Sauce? So tasty! I used the combination of button mushrooms and dried porcini mushrooms. Certainly you can omit dried porcini, but you will also loose some flavour. The blend of aromatic garlic, herbs, smoked paprika, and chipotle works so well with the mushrooms. Butter and cream cheese make this sauce rich and heathy. I also sprinkled them with some Asiago cheese as it’s so delicate and rich. You can use any other creamy cheese.
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Crêpes With Creamy Mushroom Sauce
Course: Main2-4
servings15
minutes30
minutesCrêpes With Creamy Mushroom Sauce are an excellent choice for all savoury crêpes lovers. This sauce would be enough for 7-8 crepes. The cooking time does not include making crepes.
Ingredients
~8 crepes. You can use this or your favourite recipe
~ 1 lb. cremini or button mushrooms
1/3 cup dried porcini mushrooms
1-2 tbsp. butter
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 red onion, sliced
2-4 garlic cloves, minced
~ 1/2 tsp. salt or to taste
1/2 tbsp. smoked paprika
a good pinch of chipotle powder
1 tbsp. Italian seasonings
1/2 cup cream cheese
Optional, for serving: Asiago cheese and fresh oregano or other herbs and cheese
Directions
- Soak the porcini mushrooms in 1 cup of warm water for 15 minutes. Remove the mushrooms draining them from the excess of water and roughly chop, set aside. Using a sieve mesh, filter the water (from little dust and dirt that dried mushrooms could have) and reserve (You will use it for the sauce.)
- Quickly wash the cremini or button mushrooms if needed, but do not soak as they will absorb this water. Ideally, clean with a piece of paper towel. Thinly slice.
- Place the mushrooms onto large dry (No oil needed yet) pan and cook for about 10 minutes over low-high or high-medium heat, stirring often. Cooking down the water content is important step to improve their texture and flavour profile. They will first release the liquid which will then be evaporated.
- Once the mushrooms look drier and start browning, reduce the heat to low-medium, add the butter, oil, onions, and garlic. Cook for about 5 minutes.
- Add the chopped porcini mushrooms along with the seasonings and herbs. Cook 3-5 minutes more, stirring occasionally.
- Add the cream cheese and the reserved liquid. Cook until the cheese is melted and the sauce is slightly thickened up, about 5 minutes or so.
- Serve with crepes. Optionally, sprinkle with cheese and fresh herbs. You can place 3-4 tbsp. of the sauce and fold the crepe or simply serve the sauce on the side. Enjoy!
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The hubby and I are huge mushroom lovers! This sounds so incredibly delish! Such a beautiful presentation Ben! :) Pinning!
Thank you Kim!
I once saw a YouTube video regarding savoury crepes, apparently savoury crepes are called galette (never knew that too), there is even an association that maintains the difference of this two in France plus they have uniforms and vote for their president on a term basis. Find it fascinating but for me regardless what ever its called, I love it either way, sweet or savoury and I guess you nailed the perfect savory way to prepare it.
Yeah, you’re right!
Crepes are normally made with wheat flour while Breton galettes – with buckwheat.
So, I think technically this recipe could be called galettes, too :)
Another winning combo here, Ben! And I could literally drink that sauce. Incredibly delicious with those seasonings and velvety smooth texture. I’m totally in the savory camp when it comes to crepes but have a hard time turning down the sweet as well! :)
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Thank you Kim!
Lynne is more a fan of crepes than I am Ben, but these sure do look delicious. That creamy mushroom sauce has me drooling!
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Thank you Neil!
Lynne can have this sauce with crepes while you – over some pasta :)
Your photos are really great, Ben!! I am ashamed to admit I have only made savory crepes once or twice. That creamy mushroom sauce looks wonderful. My kids wouldn’t touch it but hubby and I would dig right in!!
Thank you very much Katherine.
That’s that rare case you don’t need any dulce de leche :)
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I am so glad to see a savoury crepe recipe coz I prefer savoury over sweet. The pairing with mushrooms is delicious!
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Thank you – I hope you get a chance to try this variation!
I prefer savory and your mushroom sauce looks amazing.
Thank you!
Honestly, I love crepes any way I can get them, but savory has a slight edge for me. (My fav sweet crepes just have lemon and sugar.) Your savory crepes with that creamy mushroom sauce look absolutely divine!
Thank you Marissa! 2
Exactly – all crepes are delicious (even plain).
Looks GREAT! Now I have one more breakfast/brunch recipe idea to play with. And I’ll start with mushrooms, Hatch green chiles, bacon and cheese. Your recipe and photos, as usual, are amazing! Thank you, Ben for sharing this! Pinned!
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Thank you very much Michael! Bacon, ham, or prosciutto would be a great addition indeed!
One of my husband’s favorite things is creamy mushroom sauce! And I happen to love savory crepes! So this is like a mash up made in heaven for us!! All the flavors sound incredible, Ben!! A must try for sure!!!
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A must try for sure – promise?! :)
Difficult to answer your question; we both are such a crepes lovers ! This is an excellent savoury version we will enjoy ! Thank you !
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Same with us. Thank you very much!
Ben, I’m a lot like you ~ I’m very indecisive about how I like my crepes best….I can easily go sweet with a nice jam or dulce de leche, but then my mouth would want something savory…This creamy mushroom sauce looks incredible and I know I would devour it. Looking forward to giving this recipe a try!
Absolutely agreed.
Thank you Tasia!
Crepes are good, and such a simple dish. We probably eat them in sweet dishes more than savory, although I actually prefer them savory style. So go figure. :-) Anyway, this looks terrific — thanks.
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I like that idea of eating crepes for every meal of the day! It could totally happen, too. I made a similar dish recently but used pasta instead of crepes. Now I’m wondering what would happen if I used crepes? Great idea, my friend! I’m craving this recipe right now!
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I’ve made crepes cannelloni and lasagna in the past, and it was great!
Thank you David!
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I could dive right in and devour the entire lot of them :)
Thank you Tandy!
I like idea of serving crepes with mushroom sauce. It looks so wonderfully delicious and jam packed full of flavours. Thanks, Ben, for sharing another great recipe, I am totally inspired!
Your cat looks beautiful :-)
Thank you for your kind words Angie!