Mini-Blini

Name: Mini-Blini
Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour; 1 cup buckwheat flour; 1 package active dry yeast; 1 tablespoon sugar; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 2 cups warm milk; 6 tablespoons butter, melted; 3 eggs, lightly beaten; Butter for frying; Sour cream and sturgeon, salmon or golden caviar

10 ingredients

9 steps

Ingredients

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup buckwheat flour
1 package active dry yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups warm milk
6 tablespoons butter, melted
3 eggs, lightly beaten
Butter for frying
Sour cream and sturgeon, salmon or golden caviar

Directions

1

Combine flours, yeast, sugar and salt in a bowl.
2

Stir in warm milk, butter and eggs and mix until smooth.
3

Set bowl aside in a warm place such as an oven with pilot light on and allow to rise until double in volume, about two hours.
4

Stir batter.
5

Heat a large, heavy skillet and lightly butter it.
6

Make blini with about a tablespoon of batter each, turning them as they brown and browning the other side.
7

You should be able to fit four blini in a 10-inch skillet.
8

As the blini are finished cooking, place them on a baking sheet in an oven heated to 150 degrees to keep warm.
9

Serve blini topped with sour cream and more or less of whichever kind of caviar your taste and budget may allow.