Blini's / Pancakes

After I tasted a simply delicious meal at a restaurant, I had to try making it myself. I tasted a rather large blini with salmon and a delicious, bit sour, cream. I happened to have the recipe for blini's myself, so I wanted to give it a shot. The first time I made them I thought they were a bit too thick, so I decided to improve it. Unforuntaley for me I forgot to buy salmon and any cream so I decided to eat them like american pancakes: just poor a bit of syrup over them and voila! It worked out pretty well!
I must say the pancakes are a bit heavy and taste a bit floury and to my surprise actually require three different kinds of flour! But a succes none the less!



Ingredients:
80 grams flour
70 grams boekweit flour
1 teaspoon selfrising flour
a pinch of salt
1 egg
200 ml milk
25 grams butter
Extra butter to grease

1. Sift the different kinds of flour and mix them together in a bowl. Add the salt and mix again. Make a little well in the centre of the flour-mixture.
2. In a seperate bowl whisk the egg shortly with an electric mixer (or whisk if you dont/cant use an electric one) until the mixture is yellow. Add the milk and the flour to the whisked egg and mix again.
3. Poor the egg-mixture into the well you made in the flour-mixture. With an electric mixer or fork, mix the two mixture together untill it forms a smooth thick liquid.
4. Put a frying pan or special blini-pan if you have one, on the middle fire with a bit of butter to grease it. Poor small amount of the mixture onto the pan with a spoon.
5. Wait for the top of the blini to turn a bit dry, or until little bubbles form on the top. Then turn the blini's over (with a spatula, is most handy). Bake the other side as well until golden brown. If the other side is not the colour you like it, turn over till both sides have a nice brown colour.

You will have to repeat step 4 and 5 until all the blini's are done. You might have to add a bit more butter every once in a while as well.
To keep the blini's warm you can simply put them on a plate and cover them with a lid of a pan or so.
When all blini's are done you can do whatever you want them! You could either eat them as little pancakes or put a bit of sour cream with kaviar on them. What I really like with these blini's is a creamy herb paste and some smoked salmon. Very simple, I might as well give you the recipe to it as well!

Ingredients:
2 blini's
Creamy herb paste [if you click on it, it gives you a link to the herb paste]
Smoked salmon

1. Start out with a blini and spread as much herb paste on it as you want. I prefer A LOT of it!
2. On top of the herb paste put a layer of smoked salmon. I like to make two layers, because the smoked salmon always comes in very thin portions.
3. On top of that comes a lot of herb paste again and then another blini. And there you have your own delicious blini!!