My 5th grade teacher once told me, "Treat your body like a temple, don't throw garbage in it".
I have always treated mine as a temple, although I must confess that recently I have become more religious.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

'a la Crepetaria

Good ol' french crepes except these were created with a healthy & non-sweet flavorful twist.

I spotted these delicious crepes at the Mumbai airport and fell in love with them.
Crepetaria is a recent fast-food chain all over India and their selling point is not just these creative and flavorful crepes but also that these crepes are made of a fat-free soy batter.

In other locations they also carry a body builder crepe with whey protein added to the batter and a crepizza which has a salad like filling of onions, capsicum and olives folded in a spicy tomato dressing.
This location had three types of fillings in the vegetarian selection and two in the non-vegetarian menu. I have only seen this in India of a possibility of a fast food chain containing more vegetarian items than non-vegetarian options - I love India. I had to make a choice of fillings between paneer tikka crepe (paneer tikka i.e. grilled cottage cheese with onions & capsicum), crepe italia (tomato, cheese in pesto sauce topped with croutons) or crepe arabia (Falafel in hummus topped with aioli and pickled vegetables).
I chose crepe arabia and also shot a video (posted below) of how they made my crepe. You have to watch the video to experience what I am talking about.
In this video, first the crepe batter was evenly spread with a Krampouz T-shaped spreader on the pre-heated pan. The flat surface you see in the video is an electric Krampouz crepe maker. One section of the crepe was then topped with crushed falafel, hummus, pickled veggies, aioli and crisp fries and folded skillfully into a cone. Every bite was heavenly and it cost me less than $3.