What are “crêpes mille trous” in French?

Recette facile de crêpes mille trous marocaines

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A2 French listening practice · French from France · Picked for people who know a little

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crêpes mille trous (baghrir)
French food from the Maghreb
“thousand-hole pancakes,” a semolina pancake cooked on one side only

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.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this A2 French listening practice video?

91.6%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common French words
Most of the words in this video are common French words.

How common in written French

83.1%
Top 1,000
91.6%
Top 2,000
94.2%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken French

86.2%
Top 1,000
95.8%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than A2. Here is what they mean.

mixeur
3×
Not in top 5,000
blender
semoule
3×
Not in top 5,000
semolina (flour)
abonnez
2×
Not in top 5,000
subscribe
versez
2×
Not in top 5,000
pour
antiadhésive
1×
Not in top 5,000
non-stick

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · Lexique 3.83 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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