Chestnuts Crepes

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Ingredients :

1 large egg, preferably free-range or organic
1 regular coffee mug full of chestnut flour
1 regular coffee mug full of whole milk
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
olive oil
a few sprigs of fresh rosemary, leaves picked
4-6 slices of lovely ham or prosciutto
Gruyere cheese, for grating




How To Make :

1. Crack the egg into a bowl and add the chestnut flour, milk and a really good pinch of salt and pepper. Whisk together until you have a smooth batter. Put a spoon in the mixture to check the consistency. You want it quite runny, so add another splash of milk if you think it's too thick, then put to one side.

2. Preheat a medium non stick pan on a medium heat and let it get good and hot. Drizzle in a little olive oil, then add a pinch of rosemary leaves. Tear one of your slices of prosciutto into small pieces and add these to the pan. Keep everything moving around for a minute or until crisp. Try to spread your rosemary and ham around the pan so it's quite evenly spaced, then ladle in enough batter to thinly coat the base of the pan. Cook until it's starting to set around the edged, then finely grate over a thin layer of Gruyere.

3. As soon as the crepe is golden and lovely underneath, get a palette knife and fold it over in half. Grate over a little more Gruyere, then flip the crepe over and do the same over that half. Cook for another minute or so, turning as you go, until you have a delicious, golden and crisp crepe. Repeat until you've used up all your ingredients, then serve as part of a light lunch, with a fresh green salad and a glass of wine.

P.S.
To make your own chestnut flour, blitz 100 gr of vac-packed chestnuts to a fine powder in a food processor. Add 1 regular coffee mug full of milk, 1 egg and a really good pinch of salt and pepper. Blitz again, then mix in 100 gr of plain flour until you have a smooth batter. If you want to roughly pulse in some more chestnuts at this point, for a bit of texture, that would also be lovely.

Source : Jamie Oliver