Make Crepes from Leftovers

Video Transcript

"ANNE MOONEY: Hi. I'm Chef Anne Mooney, and also the regular food columnist for Simply The Best Magazine out of Delray Beach, Florida. Today, I'm here on behalf of Expert Village to talk about crepes. Crepes are one of the most marvelous and versatile ways to deal with leftover turkey; and now that it's the holidays, we all have it. I'm going to make an entree crepe here using the crepes that I've made ahead of time and frozen. I've just pulled them out of the refrigerator. It takes about five minutes for them to thaw, maybe ten, and a cheese sauce and my leftover turkey into which I've chopped some mushrooms and some leeks, and we're going to make a stacked entree that we'll cut in half and there will be two servings there by the time I'm done. So, first of all, we take a crepe and just put it on the bottom of a pan. There is no need to grease the pan or anything, just put it in there, and then we'll spoon some of this turkey filling onto the crepe, like so. Now, this sauce that I made is a basic white sauce made by melting butter and then cooking two tablespoons of flour in the butter and adding about a cup of milk until the sauce achieves this consistency. Then, after the sauce is done, add a little salt and some cheese. I had some grated cheese on hand. So you have a nice creamy cheese sauce that you can put on top of the turkey filling. Then, put another crepe on top of that one and repeat the process just about until you run out of turkey and you'll end up with a crepe on top, like so. You can put a little bit more cream sauce on there if you want and then sprinkle the leftover cheese on the top. Put it in the oven for 20 minutes at 350 degrees and, voila, you have dinner. If you like this, check out my other cooking tips on Expert Village."