Smoked salmon crepes with cream cheese and honey mustard sauce

Smoked salmon crepes make a simple, quick, and tasty dinner! You can also eat them for breakfast, lunch, or even as an appetizer. They can be served cold – you can pack them in your lunchbox and take them to work. These savory crepes are packed with flavor!

If you like smoked salmon, check out also this smoked salmon frittata!

Ingredients:

This dish consists of:

1. Savory crepes – this recipe is similar to French crepes. The batter is a little bit thicker here as that is what I prefer for this recipe. I also added baking powder to the batter to make the crepes a little bit more fluffy.
2. Smoked salmon – I used cold-smoked salmon here, but you can also use hot-smoked salmon.
3. Herbed cream cheese – Use store-bought herbed creme cheese or make your own by seasoning plain cream cheese with your favorite herbs. Instead of cream cheese, you could use ricotta or mascarpone (there is no need to dilute it with milk).
4. Lettuce leaves – use your favorite lettuce leaves. Instead of lettuce, spinach would be great.
5. Honey mustard sauce – it has just 3 ingredients, but it’s packed with flavor!

How to make savory crepes step by step:

1. Prepare the crepe batter: In a large bowl, whisk the flour, spices, and baking powder together, then add the eggs, milk, olive oil and whisk until smooth. Cover and set aside for 15 minutes.
2. Cook the crepes: for this recipe, it’s better to make slightly thicker pancakes (not paper-thin pancakes like the French crepes). Heat a small amount of oil in a crepe pan/non-stick skillet (only for the first pancake) over high heat. Ladle a portion of the batter into the pan, just enough to cover the bottom, tilt the pan to spread the batter evenly around it, cook until the edges of the crepe are crispy and browned, slide a spatula under the crepe, flip it over and cook briefly on the other side. Repeat with the remaining batter.

How to make smoked salmon crepes step by step:

1. Make the herbed cream cheese: combine all ingredients in a bowl, add enough milk to make it spreadable (you can also season herbed cheese to taste). Instead of milk, you could use heavy cream, sour cream, creme fraiche, or buttermilk.
2. Spread the herbed cream cheese over the crepes.
3. Top with the smoked salmon, lettuce leaves, and optionally some dill sprigs. 
4. Make the honey-mustard sauce (it’s described below).
5. Roll up the crepes and serve with mustard-honey sauce.

How to make 3-ingredient honey mustard sauce:

• You only need 3 ingredients to make this sauce: mustard, honey, and lemon juice. You just need to whisk them together and season with salt and pepper.
• What kind of mustard is best: I used honey mustard for this sauce. It’s rather on the sweet side with a hint of savory. If you want more savory sauce you can use Dijon mustard instead of honey mustard or reduce the honey amount or just swap the half of honey mustard amount for Dijon mustard.
• You can keep this sauce in the fridge for 2-3 days. Make sure to whisk it thoroughly before using it.

Storage/how to make it ahead:

You can prepare all the ingredients ahead (cook the crepes, make the herbed cream cheese, wash the lettuce, make the honey mustard sauce) and store them in the fridge for up to 3 days. Assemble and drizzle with the sauce just before serving. For more tips on how to store crepes, check out this recipe: crepes.

How to serve this dish:

• This is a recipe for European-style pancakes (sometimes also called British or German pancakes), but you could also make smaller, American-style pancakes (savory) and serve them with herbed cream cheese and smoked salmon on top (this could be a great appetizer).
• We usually eat them for lunch/dinner, but you can also serve them for breakfast.
• They also taste good cold, so you can pack them in your lunchbox and take them with you to work.
• You could serve it as a party snack – smoked salmon crepe rolls: roll up the crepes tightly, then cut into slices and stick on a toothpick.
• You could make a smoked salmon crepe cake – spread the crepes with a filling without folding them at all, then stack them up high to form a cake that can be sliced into wedges (I would omit the lettuce and drizzle all the layers with the sauce).
• Instead of cream cheese, you could add brie/gruyere (or other melting cheese) and cooked asparagus, roll up the crepes or fold them into triangles, then pan-fry until the crepes are golden and the cheese is melted (yum!).

For more savory crepes/pancakes ideas, check out these sun-dried tomato and Parmesan buckwheat pancakes or these cheesy vegetable crepes.

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