Ploye with walnut butter 💚-sorta
A ploye is an Acadian (of French Canadian/old French Maine origin) buckwheat pancake/crepe. I don't remember even hearing about them until I was probably in my 20s? Even then, it was a bag of mix I got and without Instagram or YouTube or guidance, I made some pretty terrible crepes and decided they were disgusting.
Fast forward ten million minutes to my all new taste buds, and I wanted to give it another try!
I have about a dozen trypophobia-triggering photos of me trying to figure out how to make this Acadian foodstuff. They cook up with a thousand little holes in them. @the_littlest_chickpea shared a smart way to do this with a soak and blend method, but I saw buckwheat flour in the bulk section and figured why not save some time. Whoopsie!
So I used regular buckwheat flour mixed with all-purpose flour. Apparently if you use the flour, the correct one is 'light buckwheat'. Noted. Soak and blend sounds better and better, like a million times better.
It took until the last 3-4 little crepes (I made well over a dozen) to get to something that didn't taste like raw buckwheat, and then I tried topping with maple syrup but it was so-so and it fell through all the holes. FINALLY, topped with a little walnut butter and yum! I'll be trying these again with the soak method. Biodiversity for the win!!!
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