Blinchiki (Russian-style Pancakes). These filled pancakes are served during Russia's Pancake Week (Maslenitsa) celebration before Lent begins. Traditionally they're filled with caviar, jam, sour cream, or mushroom filling. Fill Russian pancakes with sweet or savory fillings and eat to your heart's content. Russian pancakes (blini), also known as blinis or blinchiki, are near and dear to the people of Russia and the former USSR. Great recipe for Blinchiki (Russian-style Pancakes).

I wanted to use salmon to make a sumptuous dish so I made Russian Blinchiki. You can serve these with tartar sauce or sour cream. Using strong flour for the batter is the key, since it makes it chewy and dense. You can cook Blinchiki (Russian-style Pancakes) using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Blinchiki (Russian-style Pancakes)

Prepare 1 of ☆Egg.
It's 100 grams of ☆Bread (strong) flour.
It's 200 ml of ☆Milk.
It's 1/2 tsp of ☆Salt.
It's 3/4 tbsp of ☆Sugar.
You need 150 grams of Salmon.
Prepare 1 of Boiled egg.
Prepare 1/4 medium of Onion.
It's 20 grams of Butter.
It's 1 of Salt and pepper.

Recipe by Mi-chan Blini are -not- crepes or pancakes, as so many people want to think they are if they've never tried them. This is a good recipe, don't try to change it! If there's two things I can't stand it's pompous foodies who say that a dish can only be made one way and with certain ingredients, and people. Blinchiki is Russian style crepes, a family business.

Blinchiki (Russian-style Pancakes) step by step

Make hard-boiled eggs. After bringing the water to boil put the eggs in and cook for about 10 minutes. In this picture you can see three but I use only 1 for this recipe..
Make the pancake batter. Mix the egg, salt and sugar. Stir in half of the milk..
After stirring sift the flour into the mixture. Mix until smooth..
After mixing add the rest of the milk. Stir until smooth..
After stirring let the mixture rest. Meanwhile make the filling..
Remove the skin of the salmon. Cook the salmon in a microwave and leave to cool. Break up the flesh into small pieces..
Heat the butter in a frying pan and add the onion. Fry until wilted and add the salmon. Salt and pepper..
Chop the egg finely. Mix the egg with the fried onion and salmon..
Pour the pancake batter into the pan and spread thinly and evenly. Cook both sides..
Place the filling onto a pancake. Fold in the bottom, the left and right, then the top..
This is done. Transfer this carefully to the frying pan to warm up. Transfer to a serving dish..
You're all set! This pancake goes well with different sauces. I used a mixture of ketchup, mayonnaise and grainy mustard this time..

We are very popular among Farmers Markets customers of Kirkland, Bellevue, Seattle and many other cities of the Greater Seattle Metro Area. We make our crepes using grandma's old recipes, that are passed on from one generation to another, which makes our crepes special and unforgettable. Not the canape-sized blini, these larger pancakes are filled with a simple but hearty beef and onion mixture. You can also pan-fry the rolled blini at the end in a bit of oil for even more flavour. Considered a gluten-free flour, consumers of buckwheat flour who have wheat allergies should be aware that many buckwheat flours might have been processed in facilities that manufacture wheat flour, so it can be subject to cross-contamination.