Blini

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Cuisine Russian

Equipment

  • Blini pan or small frying pan. Working with 2 pans is the most efficient.

Ingredients
  

  • 125 g Strong White Flour
  • 40 g Buckwheat Flour
  • 5 g Yeast
  • 225 ml Milk lukewarm
  • 100 g Greek Yoghurt
  • 2 Eggs
  • 4 g Salt

Instructions
 

  • Mix the yeast in the lukewarm milk and stand for 7-8 minutes and allow the yeast to activate.
  • Sift the flour into a bowl. Add the milk and yeast. Add the egg yolk, yoghurt, salt and whisk together by hand. Leave to stand for 2 hours covered with a cloth
  • Whisk the egg white until it forms white peaks. Fold the egg whites into the batter.
  • Leave to stand for half an hour.
  • Start heating the blini pan. Dip a paper towel in the sunflower oil and wipe around the pan. Continue to heat the pan to a medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon of mixture to the pan. Cook for 30 seconds. Turnover and cook for a further 15 seconds. Remove from the pan and put on a cooling rack.
  • Stack in a cloth/tea towel until ready to serve.
  • Serve with smoked salmon, maybe some cavier and creme fraiche and dill or chives
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