Onion Crepes (Mikate ya Maji na Vitunguu)

Onion Crepes (Mikate ya Maji na Vitunguu)

This name Crepes is French, which means a small very thin pancake. In Zanzibar, its common to see Crepes made with water instead of milk. This is what I called Crepes Zenj. Another variant, also popular in Zanzibar is to make Onion Crepes by adding onions to the crepe mixture.

Ingredients

• 250 gms. wheat flour
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 ltr. water
• a pinch of salt
• 50 gms. margarine or ghee or oil.
2 red onions
• a pinch of salt
• sugar
• 1 spoon oil or margarine

Method

• To make the crepe mixture, mix in the water, flour, eggs, salt and melted margarine. Whisk the ingredients together throughly well, if you feel that the mixture is very thick, add a little bit of water.
• Strain the mixture.
• Chop finely your onions, and sautee the onions. Salt and put a pinch of sugar while frying the inions, so that they get golden colour. Mix the onions with your crepe mixture.
• Warm up your pan and drop very little bit of margarine. When the pan is very hot, start to fry your first crepe. The mixture should cover the whole pan. Normally the first crepe always have some difficulties but then the second and the rest becomes normal.
• The first crepe will show you whether you have much water or your mixture is thick. This always depend on what kind of flour you have used.
• Fry your crepes both sides until golden brown.
• Do not use any oil or margarine in the process of frying the crepes because you have already mixed the margarine in the mixture.

Tips: Keeping your frying pan clean.

• Never clean your crepe frying pan by using any soap. otherwise your crepes will fasten when frying.
• Always clean your frying pan by using only water and brush, or
• Use coconut fibers (makumbi) to rub after frying your crepes, or
• Use Kitchen paper roll to clean up your frying pan.

Serve you crepes with stew, if you want to enjoy them!

Bon Apetite.

Benn Haidari