🇲🇪 Montenegrin Cuisine

Palačinke

Montenegrin Crepes

Prep Time 30 min
Servings 4
Difficulty Easy
Calories 284 kcal

Thin, delicate crepes filled with walnuts, chocolate, or jam and rolled into elegant cylinders — Montenegro's favorite everyday dessert.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Whisk flour, eggs, milk, sugar, melted butter, and salt into a smooth, thin batter. Rest 15 min.
  2. 2 Heat a non-stick pan over medium heat. Add a tiny bit of butter.
  3. 3 Pour a thin layer of batter, swirling to coat the pan evenly.
  4. 4 Cook 1-2 min until edges lift and bottom is golden. Flip and cook 30 seconds more.
  5. 5 Spread filling on each crepe, roll or fold into quarters.
  6. 6 Serve warm, dusted with powdered sugar or drizzled with chocolate sauce.

Did You Know?

Montenegrin children learn to flip palačinke in the air as a rite of passage — a successfully flipped crepe earns applause from the whole family.