Russian Blini with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe
Russia's yeasted buckwheat pancakes, the food of Maslenitsa week before Lent — thin, lacy and slightly sour, stacked with melted butter and eaten with sour cream and glistening salmon roe.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 150 g buckwheat flour
- 150 g plain flour
- 7 g dried yeast
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 600 ml milk, lukewarm
- 2 eggs, separated
- 80 g butter, melted
- 2 tbsp sunflower oil, for the pan
- 300 g sour cream (smetana)
- 100 g salmon roe
- 10 g dill, to serve
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 3345 kcal · P 94.5g · C 290.4g · F 199.2g
Estimated from 12 of 12 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Steps
Steps
- 1Dissolve the yeast and sugar in 300 ml of the warm milk, whisk in both flours to a thick batter, cover and leave somewhere warm for 1 hour, until bubbly and doubled.
- 2Whisk in the egg yolks, the salt, 30 g of the melted butter and the remaining milk until the batter is smooth and about as thin as single cream. Leave for 30 minutes more.
- 3Whisk the egg whites to soft peaks and fold them gently into the batter.
- 4Heat a 20 cm frying pan over medium-high heat and wipe it with a little of the oil. Pour in a small ladle of batter and swirl it to coat the base thinly.
- 5Cook for 60–90 seconds, until the surface is set and full of holes and the underside golden, then flip and cook for 30 seconds more.
- 6Stack the blini on a warm plate, brushing each with the remaining melted butter; wipe the pan with oil every few blini.
- 7Serve warm, folded into quarters, with the sour cream, salmon roe and dill.
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Questions and answers
How long does Russian Blini with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe take to make?
About 45 minutes: 15 min prep and 30 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for Russian Blini with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe?
12 ingredients: buckwheat flour, plain flour, dried yeast, sugar, salt, milk, eggs, butter, sunflower oil, sour cream, salmon roe, dill.
How many servings does this Russian Blini with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe recipe make?
6 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of Russian Blini with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe?
About 557 kcal, with 15.7 g protein, 48.4 g carbohydrate and 33.2 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is Russian Blini with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe?
Russian Blini with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe comes from Russian cuisine.
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