Blini (Russian Pancakes)

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Blini (Russian Pancakes)

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Blini (Russian Pancakes) is Russian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Medium Eggetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves
3

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Whisk the flour, milk, eggs, sugar, and salt into a thin, smooth batter and rest 15 minutes.

  2. Melt half the butter and stir it into the batter.

  3. Heat a lightly buttered crepe pan or skillet over medium heat and pour in a thin layer of batter, swirling to coat.

  4. Cook 1 minute per side until lacy and golden, stacking the finished blini as you go.

  5. Serve warm with jam and sour cream, a weekend breakfast worth the extra time.

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Serve it with

A Russian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Blini (Russian Pancakes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Blini (Russian Pancakes) carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Blini (Russian Pancakes)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy Yes Gorohovyi Sup (Split Pea Soup with Smoked Sausage)
Gluten Yes Boiled Potatoes with Dill and Butter
Shellfish No
Eggs Yes Baked Chicken with Potatoes
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
650 kcal
Protein
16 g
Carbs
78 g
Fat
30 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
21 g
Sodium
450 mg
Saturated fat
19 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Blini (Russian Pancakes) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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