Today I want to show you how to prepare tasty vegan radicchio and mushroom crepes that are light and vegan. The basic crepes are made with chickpea flour and are dressed with a light bechamel made with oil and plant-based milk. Simply delicious.
They are not even difficult, just that there are various steps to follow, but it is worth it especially for the holiday table: they will be perfect to offer to your family on Christmas, for example. You can bake them in the oven and even in the air fryer as you will see later, which is really convenient if the oven is already busy with other dishes.
I recommend preparing the bechamel, mushrooms, and radicchio in advance, even a couple of days before. You can also prepare the crepes the night before but not beyond that, otherwise, they tend to dry out and become less flexible, as it happened to me, in fact one broke while rolling it. But no one complained, we enjoyed them! Let’s get cooking…
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Economical
- Rest time: 20 Minutes
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 8 crepes
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Vegan
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter, Christmas
Ingredients
To prepare the crepes, I refer you directly to my recipe instead of rewriting everything, read here: Vegan chickpea flour crepes. The recipe is for 8 crepes and we precisely need to prepare 8 crepes.
The bechamel is also made with my recipe, here’s the procedure: Light vegan bechamel but below are the amounts, as we need to make a smaller dose.
- 0.8 oz flour
- 0.7 oz extra virgin olive oil (4 teaspoons)
- 1.3 cups plant-based milk (unsweetened or unflavored)
- to taste nutmeg
- to taste salt
- 1/2 radicchio
- 14 oz mushrooms
- 1 onion
- 1 garlic
- 0.3 oz extra virgin olive oil (2 teaspoons)
- 0.5 oz nutritional yeast (about 2 tablespoons)
- to taste spices (to taste: thyme, sage, marjoram…)
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- Total points = 23 WW points
- Points per crepe = 3 WW points
Tools
Here are the main tools for preparation. You can use either the oven or the air fryer. If you use the air fryer, you need a baking pan, even aluminum, that fits well into the basket.
- Pan
- Hand Whisk
- Spatula
- Air Fryer Pan
- Air Fryer
Steps
As already explained, you need to follow this recipe: Vegan chickpea flour crepes to the letter, you will get 8 crepes like these:
For the bechamel, follow this recipe: Light vegan bechamel but with the amounts indicated above, as we need a smaller portion, a little more than half of the recipe. To the bechamel, add, besides the salt and nutmeg, also 2 teaspoons of nutritional yeast to flavor it, and save the rest of the nutritional yeast for assembling the crepes. Here’s the bechamel:
Clean the radicchio from the tougher parts and cut it into strips. Keep a little raw to decorate the final dish if you like. Chop the onion and sauté it with a teaspoon of oil along with the spices for a couple of minutes. Add a little water if it dries out too much. Add the radicchio, a bit of salt, and cook until the radicchio is wilted. Turn off the heat and let cool.
For the mushrooms, proceed as in this recipe: Sautéed Mushrooms, then cut the garlic in half and sauté it in a teaspoon of oil.
Then add the well-cleaned and sliced mushrooms and let them cook. If they release a lot of water, continue until it is all evaporated. Add salt, turn off the heat, and let cool.
Place the crepes on the work surface and spread a tablespoon of bechamel on each.
Then add a sprinkle of nutritional yeast, add the radicchio, and finish with the mushrooms. Try to reserve most of the bechamel and some nutritional yeast for the next step.
Put some bechamel on the bottom of the baking dish. Then gently roll each crepe and place it in the dish so that they are touching each other. Spread the remaining bechamel well over the crepes, especially on the edges, so they do not become too dry.
Sprinkle the surface of the bechamel with the remaining nutritional yeast and we’re ready to cook the crepes!
OVEN COOKING
Preheat the oven to 392°F and first place the dish lower for 15 minutes, then move it to the top for another 10-15 minutes until golden.
AIR FRYER COOKING
I also tried cooking the crepes in my air fryer. In fact, you see that 6 were in the oven dish because 2 I put in a pot and cooked in the air fryer for 6 minutes at 320°F and then another 6-7 minutes at 356°F. Perfect even this way!
Here are the vegan radicchio and mushroom crepes ready to be served! What a scent… I decorated them with raw radicchio that I had saved, and they really make an impression served this way. If you want to bring them to the table at Christmas, they will also look beautiful served on Christmas plates.
Okay, looks matter too, but the most important thing is that they are really so good, tasty, filling, and light. What more could you want?
These vegan crepes were fully approved here at home, but more importantly, I liked them. I hope the same for you, if you make them, let me know if you liked them and leave me a comment below…
Enjoy your meal!
By Giovanna Buono
Preparation and Storage
The bechamel can also be prepared a few days in advance and kept in the fridge. If it then becomes too hard, you can add a little milk and mix well with a whisk. It can also be frozen in a jar, if you prefer. Then leave it in the fridge to thaw overnight.
The vegetables can also be prepared in advance, up to two days before, without problems. Obviously, store them in the fridge.
For the crepes, I would prepare them at most 12 hours before, otherwise, they tend to dry out too much and you’ll find it difficult to roll them. Make them and place them separated by kitchen paper on a plate, you can leave them in the oven turned off until preparation.
You can also, once cooked and cooled, freeze the crepes in suitable containers. Then place them in a preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. Verify with a fork that they are hot inside.
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
What is nutritional yeast?
In this recipe, you will also find nutritional yeast, which is a deactivated yeast rich in vitamin B12. It is often used in vegan cooking because it provides a cheesy flavor to dishes. To learn more, read here: Nutritional Yeast: what it is, how it’s used and why! You can omit it, but in that case, add spices to taste to give more flavor to the final dish.
