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Savory Crepes Recipe With Spicey Ground Beef

Published: Oct 2, 2021 · Modified: Nov 23, 2024 by Judith Coates · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

Bon Appétit
Like it? ~ Let us know below!
Spicey ground beef crepes are full of flavor, ease, and lots of enjoyment. This crepe recipe allows for a great deal of creativity and making it your own.
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Beige crepes stuffed with red vegetables, with white sauce, green chives and orange cheese.

This creation is so delicious, goes together quickly, and easily. Enjoy these spicey and tasty crepes any time of day that suits you! Get creative by making the basic crepe and then adding what you love most to the filling! Hint, it doesn't have to be spicey. 😉

Beige rolled crepe with brown meat, red tomato, green chives, and orange cheese filling with a gold Eiffel tower icon and the French national flower, purple iris.

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  • ❤️About This Recipe & Why We Love It!
  • 📸Ingredient Shot
  • 📋Ingredient List
  • 📸Ingredient Shot
  • 📝Ingredient List
  • 🔢Instructions
  • 👩‍🍳Instructions For Assembling The Crepes
  • Kitchen Tools
  • Top Tip For Savory Crepe Batter
  • 🔄Substitutions
  • 🙌More Savory Crepe Recipes To Try
  • 📖 Recipe

❤️About This Recipe & Why We Love It!

Savory crepes can be a meal saver. What do I mean by this? If you have any leftovers from the night before you can mix up some crepes and use your leftover meal wrapped up and warmed in the crepes. Delicious!

When you make this easy recipe you will see how easy a ground beef, ground turkey or chicken, and chopped ham would be served in this way If you would like to carry the ground beef idea further try this tasty but different, simple beef chili recipe, which fills a crepe beautifully too..

You can get the scoop on how to make the best crepes here.

For The Crepes

📸Ingredient Shot

Image of the crepes for making a spicy ground beef meal.

📋Ingredient List

  • plain flour
  • salt
  • eggs
  • oil
  • water
  • milk

🌶For The Crepes Filling

📸Ingredient Shot

Image of the filling ingredients for the spicy ground beef crepes

📝Ingredient List

  • ground beef
  • onion
  • bouquet garni (bay leaf, sprig of thyme, parsley) or
  • a little Espelette pepper or other of your choice to taste
  • dark beer
  • salt and pepper
  • garlic cloves
  • tomato
  • celery
  • chives
  • red wine vinegar
  • sugar
  • A little sour cream and more chives on top.
  • cheese of your choice, cheddar, mozzarella to sprinkle on top.

Two crepes stuffed with meat and vegetables.

🔢Instructions

For The Crepes

  1. Stir crepe batter with a whisk until smooth, do not beat.
  2. Let batter stand for an hour before cooking for best results.
  3. Heat pan slowly (use a non-stick crepe pan unless you are experienced) until it is hot about 200°C /400°F.
  4. Butter pan quickly and pour in batter. Cook fast or they will be rubbery.
  5. When edges start to lift, it is time to turn.

🥣Step-By-Step Visual Instructions For Filling

Raw red ground beef cooking to a brown in a black pan with a black mix'n chop cooking tool.
  1. Step 1: Brown the ground beef in a pan. When completely cooked place in a bowl, discard the fat and scrape pan.
White onions softening in a black non-stick frying pan.
  1. Step 2: Place olive oil in pan, heat, add the onions and soften them without browning.
A black pan with brown beef, white onion in a sauce.
  1. Step 3: Put the meat back in the pan, add the beer, and if needed, add a little water to cover the meat. Season with salt and black pepper
Brown ground beef in a frying pan with white onions, and a nylon bag with spices.
  1. Step 4: Add the bouquet garni, simmer the meat mixture uncovered until the liquid is reduced.
Red and white vegetables being added to a black pan with brown meat cooking.
  1. Step 5: Add all the other vegetables, mix together and continue to simmer gently, stirring occasionally. While the liquid in the ground beef mixture is reducing, make an additional flavorful sauce to add to the beef.
A brown sauce in a white and blue cast iron pan with a colorful food pan behind it.
  1. Step 6: Heat the vinegar with the sugar in a small saucepan until it bubbles and forms a dark caramel (watch constantly to prevent burning). Then, stir in two tablespoons of boiling water and add this mixture to the pan, this gives it a good color and added flavor!

✍️Written Instructions For Filling

  1. Brown the ground beef in a pan. When completely cooked place in a bowl, discard the fat and scrape pan.
  2. Place olive oil in pan, heat, add the onions and soften them without browning.
  3. Put the meat back in the pan. add the beer and, if needed, add a little water to cover the meat and season with salt and black pepper.
  4. Add the bouquet garni, or pepper. Simmer the meat uncovered until the liquid is reduced.
  5. Add all the other vegetables and continue to simmer gently. While the liquid in the ground beef mixture is reducing, make an additional flavorful sauce to add to the beef.
  6. Heat the vinegar with the sugar in a small saucepan until it bubbles and forms a dark caramel (watch constantly to prevent burning). Stir in two tablespoons of boiling water and then add this mixture to the pan, this gives it a good color and added flavor!
Black frying pan full of brown ground beef, red tomatoes, and other white and yellow vegetables.

👩‍🍳Instructions For Assembling The Crepes

  1. Lay a crepe on a plate.
  2. Place a spoonful of the filling down the center of the crepe. (You could also use the filling and crepe in this recipe in the same way that Best Easy Apple Pie Filling Galette is made!).
  3. Fold one side of the crepe over the filling, then the other side, use a toothpick through the center to hold it together if necessary).
  4. Lay in a casserole dish.
  5. Continue until all crepes are filled.
  6. Sprinkle cheese on the crepes and place in the oven to melt the cheese and keep the crepes warm until serving.
  7. Remove from oven, sprinkle each one with chives and a dollop of sour cream!

Kitchen Tools

  • crepe pan, non-stick pan, or heavy-bottomed pan
  • Silicone Kitchen Utensil Set (6 Piece) (I love my silicone tools!)
  • mixing bowl
  • whisk
  • chopping knife

Top Tip For Savory Crepe Batter

Use olive oil, vegetable oil or sunflower oil in the batter as each one will enhance your crepes with a slightly different flavor, your preference.

Try them out by dividing the crepe ingredients in half or thirds each in a separate bowl and mix a different oil in each one to see the one you like best.

🔄Substitutions

  • Use ground turkey, ground chicken, or chopped ham instead of ground beef.
  • Use up leftovers in place of the crepe filling given in this recipe.

A beige crepe rolled around a filling of red tomatoes, brown meat, white sauce on top, sprinkled with green chives, and grated orange cheese.

🙌More Savory Crepe Recipes To Try

  • Discover This Savory Crepes Recipe With Spinach, Bacon, Mushrooms, And Cheese, it is so delicious and easy to make.
  • Make a very traditional French crepe called Ficelle Picarde, a magnificent savory ham and mushroom crepe smothered in a creamy cheese sauce.
  • You have no doubt heard of or have even eaten a ham and cheese sandwich. Well, here is the French equivalent, a Ham and Cheese Galette. Galettes are simply crepes made from buckwheat flour. There are endless varieties to make and this one is a good starting point.

📖 Recipe

Beige crepes stuffed with red vegetables, with white sauce, green chives and orange cheese.

Savory Crepes Recipe With Spicey Ground Beef

Judith Coates
Bon Appétit
Like it? ~ Let us know below!
Spicey ground beef crepes are full of flavor, ease, and lots of enjoyment. This crepe recipe allows for a great deal of creativity and making it your own.
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Prep Time 20 minutes mins
Cook Time 45 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr 4 minutes mins
Course dinner
Cuisine French
Servings 4

Ingredients

Batter

  • 1 cup/100 gr plain flour
  • a pinch of salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • ⅓ cup water
  • 1 cup/300 ml 1 or 2% milk semi-skimmed milk

Filling

  • 1 lb/454 gr ground beef
  • 1 medium onion
  • ½ cup beer plus a little water if needed
  • 1 bouquet garni or
  • a little Espelette pepper to taste
  • 2 medium garlic cloves
  • 2 cups diced tomato
  • 2 tablespoon chives
  • ½ cup chopped celery
  • 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • A little sour cream and more chives on top.
  • ½ cup grated cheese of your choice cheddar, mozzarella.

Instructions
 

How To Make The Crepes

  • (Detailed instructions for making the best crepes are here.)
  • Mix dry ingredients in a bowl.
  • Make a well in the center, then add the eggs, oil, water, and milk.
  • Stir with a whisk until smooth or place all ingredients in a blender and buzz until smooth.
  • Let stand for at least 1 hour, longer is better, even overnight.

How To Make The Filling

  • Brown the ground beef in a pan. Place in a bowl, discard the fat and scrape pan.
  • Place olive oil in pan, add the onions and soften them without browning.
  • Put the meat back in the pan.
  • Add the beer and, if needed, add a little water to cover the meat.
  • Season with salt and black pepper and add the bouquet garni,  pepper, and all the other vegetables.
  • Simmer the meat uncovered until the liquid is reduced.
  • While the liquid in the ground beef mixture is reducing, make an additional flavorful sauce to add to the beef.
  • Heat the vinegar with the sugar in a small saucepan until it bubbles and forms a dark caramel (watch constantly to prevent burning).
  • Stir in two tablespoons of boiling water and then add this mixture to the pan, this gives it a good color and added flavor!

Putting Crepes Together

  • Lay a crepe on a plate.
  • Place a spoonful of the filling down the center of the crepe.
  • Fold one side of the crepe over the filling, then the other side, use a toothpick through the center to hold it together if necessary).
  • Lay in a casserole dish.
  • Continue until all crepes are filled.
  • Sprinkle cheese on the crepes and place in the oven to melt the cheese and keep the crepes warm until serving.
  • Remove from oven, sprinkle each one with chives and a dollop of sour cream!

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