I am not a fan of anything cherry flavored, and please keep all the fake cherry flavored sodas, cherry ice cream, cherry candy etc. far away from me. However, I do love fresh cherries, and the best cherries are of course those just picked from the cherry tree. In South Florida I have no cherry trees, but fortunately Aldi had some great tasting cherries on sale last week. With the leftover cherries, I created a delicious and frugal Aldi recipe with Aldi ingredients.
My boys and I have been enjoying the cherries, but on the fourth day, I still had about 1/3 a cup of cherries that had not been eaten, and they were looking a bit dull. I did not want them go to waste, and I wanted to combine them with our abundance of mangoes from the garden, so I tried to come up with something delicious.
This week's frugal recipe is therefore Cherry Mango Crepes with Vanilla Ice Cream, and I am very pleased with the result.
The Cherry Mango Crepes Recipe:
Cherry Mango Crepes Ingredients:
(Makes 10 small crepes)
1 Mango
1-2 eggs
2 cups flour
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon sugar
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup of cherries (cut into tiny pieces)
Butter or olive oil for cooking
Cherry Mango Crepes Directions:
- Cut the mango into pieces, and use a hand mixer or a food processor to blend it.
- When the mango has been liquified, add an egg.
- Add flour, sugar, flour and milk, mix together with hand mixer.
- When done, carefully stir in cherry pieces
- Heat up a cooking pan, add a tiny bit of butter or olive oil.
- When hot, add a 1/2 cup of the mixture, and make sure that it is flat and fills out the pan.
- When one site is brown, turn it and finish cooking.
- Let the cherry mango crepes cool down a bit before serving with a spoonful of vanilla ice cream.
Mangolicious crepes with a subtle hint of the occasional cherry pieces combined with fabulous vanilla ice cream is a fantastic combination. The crepes have a subtle sweetness without being too sweet, and they were a success with my kids.
The Mango Cherry Crepes are perfect for a dessert when you have company. You can make them in advance and either freeze them or put them in fridge for a day until you need them. When reheating use either the microwave, or wrap them in tin foil before heating them in the oven.
I used mangoes from the garden, cherries from Aldi, and most of my baking ingredients came from Aldi as well.
Aldi milk $2.09
Aldi flour $1.78
Aldi sugar $2.68
Aldi eggs $1.19
Aldi salt $0.35
Aldi ice cream $1.99
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This sounds really good! And you know it's good if the kids like it!
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