Naleśniki Food

POLISH NALESNIKI

Steps:

• Process ricotta cheese and cream cheese in a food processor until smooth and creamy; add egg yolk, melted butter, sugar, vanilla extract, and salt and process until fluffy.
• Divide cheese mixture between the crepes. Spread filling into a thin layer and roll crepes around the filling.
• Melt 1 teaspoon butter in a skillet over medium heat. Fry 3 crepes in melted butter until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes per side; repeat with remaining butter and crepes.

NALESNIKI

Steps:

• Beat eggs until light.
• Add milk and water, and beat to mix.
• Add flour and salt, beat to mix.
• Heat a small frying pan (~6inches) on Medium heat.
• Melt a tbsp of butter, coating the pan.
• Add about 3 tbsp of the batter.
• Cook the bottom side only.
• Remove from pan and place on large patter until ready to fill.
• Repeat until all mix is gone.
• Add 2 tbsp filling to pancake.
• Roll up 'jelly style' (like a taco).
• Place in a buttered 9x13 pan and cover with foil.
• Place in a 250°F oven for about 30 minutes.
• Cream Cheese filling: Mix eggs with cheese.
• Add sugar.
• Add remaining ingredients, mix well.

NALESNIKI AKA CREPES

Steps:

• For the batter:
• Mix all the ingredients well in a blender and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• For the filling:
• In a large bowl, add the cream cheese, sugar and the cherries. Combine well and reserve.
• Spray a frying pan with cooking spray. Pour 1/2 cup of batter into the pan and cook until firm (tan, not brown). Turn over and cook the other side. Transfer crepes to a large plate and repeat with remaining batter.
• Fill the crepes with the cheese filling and fold as desired. Arrange on a serving platter and serve hot, with whip cream and chocolate powder.

NALEśNIKI (POLISH SWEET OR SAVORY CREPES)

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• In a blender or food processor , combine flour, milk, water, eggs, butter, and salt and process until smooth.
• Transfer batter to a pitcher. Cover the pitcher with plastic wrap and let rest for 30 minutes so liquid can be absorbed by the flour.
• Heat a crepe pan or small skillet over medium heat and lightly coat with butter. Using a 2-ounce ladle, spoon 1 portion of batter into pan.
• Immediately rotate pan and swirl batter until it covers the entire bottom of the pan. Cook until crepe is lightly brown or spotted brown on underside. Flip and cook second side until it is light brown.
• Remove crepe to waxed paper or parchment paper and repeat with remaining batter. You may need to recoat the pan with butter as you cook crepes.
• Place 2 heaping tablespoons of savory filling or sweet filling on each naleśniki. Fold sides in first and then fold bottom up, rolling away from yourself, similar to an egg roll or burrito.
• Filled naleśniki should then be pan-fried in butter over medium-high heat or baked in a buttered casserole dish at 350 F until the filling is set.

MOM'S NALESNIKI (SURPRISINGLY EASY POLISH CREPES)

Steps:

• Combine the flour, salt, egg and 1/2 cup each of milk and water and blend with hand mixer.
• Keep adding the remaining milk and water until you get a batter that's a bit thinner than sour cream. I've included some pictures to get an idea, but it should be pretty runny.
• Heat a frying pan (approx. 9" diameter) over high heat and spray with non-stick spray (or coat with oil that can withstand high temperatures).
• Pour about one and a quarter soup ladle on the center of the hot, greased pan. Tilt the pan immediately to spread the batter around. Remember, the batter may look really thin in spots, but that's ok, it'll still flip once it's cooked through (this is where I always went wrong because it seemed too thin and I panicked, but if it gets too thick it won't set properly).
• Let cook for a few minutes, depending on how hot the pan is this could take from 1-3 minutes. You can tell when it's ready to flip when 1) the crepe slides around when you move the pan and 2) you don't see anymore soft or uncooked areas in the top of the crepe. They're pretty thin so you can literally see the runny sections firm up!
• Flip the crepe over and cook for 30seconds - 1 minutes then slide onto a plate.
• If folding with any mixture, place mixture on half of crepe, fold over then fold over again so you get a quarter triangle. Depending on the filling, they can be served immediately or if using cheese filling (described in the intro, adjust ingredients to your personal preference), fry them up in a bit of butter to get the outside crispy and melt the cheese a bit. For jam or apple sauce, we just roll them up and top with sour cream and/or sugar.