Crepes with agave-ricotta cheese filling, topped with pears roasted in honey - delicious recipe for crepe lovers. I also provide a recipe for homemade crepes (how to make crepes from scratch). Delicious crepe filling recipe for homemade regular crepes or homemade gluten free crepes.
OK, after my blog post yesterday on how to make crepes, I can't wait to share one of my most favorite ways to serve them. So here it goes: Crepes with ricotta cheese filling and honey-roasted pears. I want to warn you right away, this post has some of my worst photography, and the resulting crepes with ricotta cheese look much more appetizing in real life than on some of these photos. This easy dessert literally takes minutes to make (provided that you already made a stack of crepes in advance, like me, I always have them handy), and people would assume that you slaved over this for hours.
And again, most of the photos in this post do not do the justice to this crepe recipe, I just didn't have the right light and didn't have time to take a better looking photo. In real life, these Crepes with ricotta cheese filling and honey-roasted pears will look quite sophisticated on a plate.
Photos to illustrate some of the steps:
Sliced pears
Sliced pears, "roasted" in butter in a small skillet on stove top, then add honey immediately for pears to sizzle and caramelize
Ricotta cheese with agave nectar:
Agave-ricotta cheese mixture on top of crepe, then fold it half, then fold it again - to form a triangle
Crepe folded as a triangle with ricotta mixture filling, pears roasted in honey on top
Crepes with ricotta cheese filling and pears
Ingredients
- 4 homemade crepes (detailed tutorial with photos here)
- gluten free crepes (use this link if you’re gluten intolerant)
- ½ cup ricotta cheese
- 1 tablespoon agave nectar
- 2 pears cored and sliced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons honey
Instructions
- Heat ricotta cheese and agave nectar in a small skillet on medium-high and keep mixing it until the mixture becomes liquid and of even consistency. Remove from heat and let it cool. Once it cools a bit, the mixture would become more solid, which is what we want.
- In a separate medium size pan, heat 2 tablespoons of butter on high heat. Add sliced pears to the butter, close the pan with the lid and let it cook on high for about 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, flip sliced pears on the other side, close the pan with the lid and let it cook on high for another 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Depending on how hot your stove gets, it might take you less or more time, the key is to brown the pears or even get a slightly “burned” effect. But don’t over-do it, and once pears have this “roasted” appearance. Once you removed the pan with pears from the heat, immediately add honey to the pears – adding honey will make pears sizzle and will caramelize them beautifully, off heat.
- To serve: add 2 tablespoons of agave-ricotta cheese mixture on top of the open crepe, fold the crepe in half, then fold it one more time to form a triangle. Pour hot mixture of honey, butter and pears on top. Ready to serve!
Notes
Nutrition
The nutritional information on this website is only an estimate and is provided for convenience and as a courtesy only. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed. It should not be used as a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
thank you Yummy
excellent recipe
I will be giving this a try in the very near future. I'm out of crepes at the moment, but also like to keep a supply on hand. I'm thinking a small sprinkling of chopped, roasted walnuts on the top would be a wonderful addition.
Debra, chopped walnuts on top sounds so good - I've got to try that!
I've got to let go of my fears on making crepes. You made it look so deliciously, Easy 🙂
No reason to fear, just a little bit of practice of working with batter that's a bit less thick than what you'd use for pancakes. 🙂
I also made crepes last week, my post will be up soon. This is a scrumptious filling for crepes. Thanks so much for sharing and making my tummy grumble;)
I love crepes with all sorts of fillings! Can't wait to see your post.
Beautiful photos. The char on the pears is brilliant. I've never used agave nectar before. is there a reason you used it in this recipe?
Yes, I used agave because: 1) it's liquid sweetener and it dissolves quickly and beautifully in ricotta, I don't have to heat the ricotta mixture too much, just mix in agave nectar 2) I find agave nectar very sweet in very small quantities, and adding just a little bit gives me the right level of sweetness. I suspect I would've had to dump much more regular sugar into ricotta to reach the same level of sweetness that I have with just 1 tablespoon of agave.
I think they look amazing and it is definitely something I want to eat. Right away preferably!
Ha-ha! Thank you!
I've never tried making crepes at home before. I'm starting to think I need to give it a whirl... these sound so good!
Definitely give it a try. Crepes are some of my most favorite things in the world.
Agave is High Fructose Agave Syrup(HFAS)... similar to high fructose corn syrup(HFCS)!! might as well use regular sugar - better than HFCS or HFAS!!! many sweetening options better than agave
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