What are “crêpes mille trous” in French?
Recette facile de crêpes mille trous marocaines
A2 French listening practice · French from France · Curated for beginners
Where crêpe usually means a thin wheat pancake, a crêpe mille trous (“thousand-hole crêpe”) is something different: a soft semolina pancake from the Maghreb, known there as baghrir. It is cooked on one side only, and the “thousand holes” are bubbles that pop on the top. French home cooks use both names, and the number in the name is a joke, since there are far more than a thousand.
The video says you know the pancake is done when elle est entièrement recouverte de petits trous, and that you never flip it, then serves it avec du beurre et du miel. This is a good example of French borrowing a dish name and adding a descriptive nickname next to it. You will see pain mille trous and crêpe mille trous too.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · Lexique 3.83 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.