Smoked Salmon Blintzes With Sour Cream And Chives

Recipe Ingredients

		Batter
1 1/2 cups	93g / 3.3oz	Flour - sifted
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Coarse salt
2 teaspoons	10ml	Baking powder
4		Eggs
1 1/3 cups	315ml	Milk
1 cup	237ml	Water
3 tablespoons	45ml	Finely-chopped chives
		Filling
16 oz	454g	Dry curd cottage cheese
16 oz	454g	Small curd cottage cheese
3		Egg yolks
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Grated lemon zest
2 tablespoons	30ml	Finely-chopped chives
1/2 lb	227g / 8oz	Nova Scotia lox - sliced, and
		Finely diced
3 tablespoons	45ml	Butter
5 tablespoons	75ml	Corn oil - divided
1		Sour cream

Recipe Instructions

Resift the flour with the salt, baking powder, and pepper into a large bowl. In a separate bowl beat the eggs, and then add the milk, water and chives. Make a well in the sifted ingredients, pour in the liquid ingredients, and combine with a few strokes. Ignore the lumps, they will dissolve when you stir the batter before making the crepes. Let the batter rest for 30 minutes at room temperature.

While the batter is resting make the filling. In the work bowl of a food processor combine the two types of cottage cheese, the egg yolks, lemon zest, and pepper. Process for one minute. Remove to a medium-sized bowl and gently stir in the lox and chives. Taste and adjust seasonings if necessary.

Using a 5 to 6-inch crepe pan make the crepes. Allow about 3 tablespoons of batter per crepe. Have the pan well-heated before beginning. Using about 2 tablespoons of the oil, brush the pan with a little of the oil before adding batter each time. Cook each crepe on one side until lightly browned, then turn and cook just a few seconds on the other side. Remove to waxed paper to cool. As the pancakes cool, stack between sheets of waxed paper.

Divide the filling among the crepes, allowing about 1/4 cup per crepe. Fold up envelope-style, by first folding the bottom to cover the filling, then folding over the two sides. Allow the seam to be on the bottom of the blintz. (The blintzes can be made to this point ahead of time and refrigerated or frozen.)

In a 10-inch skillet heat one tablespoon each of the butter and oil. Saute the blintzes over medium heat, allowing them to brown nicely on both sides. Add more butter and oil to the pan as needed. Keep warm in a 200 degree oven while completing the batches.

When ready to serve, stir the sour cream until smooth and creamy. Place two blintzes in the center of the warmed plate, spoon sour cream over them and garnish with the chives.

This recipe yields 24 blintzes.

Description:

"Blintzes are egg batter pancakes from the Jewish culinary tradition.

These are done the traditional way, filled with lox (smoked salmon)

and topped with sour cream. A wonderful holiday or Sunday brunch

dish."

Source:
Breakfast Recipes at http://www.cooksrecipes.com

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