Name: Syrniki Pancakes with Summer Berry Salad & Chocolate Buckwheat
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 tablespoons caster (superfine) sugar; Rapeseed oil, for frying; 4 tablespoons 00 pasta flour or plain (all-purpose) flour; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; Soured cream or crème fraèche, to serve; 300 g (10½ oz) twaróg or curd cheese; ¼ teaspoon salt; 200 g (7 oz) mixed berries, such as blackberries, raspberries and quartered strawberries; Handful of torn mint leaves; Marigold flowers — optional; 2 tablespoons roasted buckwheat (kasha); 1 tablespoon butter; 1 tablespoon honey; 1 tablespoon cacao powder

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Amber & Rye

By Zuza Zak

Published 2021

About

Syrniki are pancakes made from curd cheese and eaten in many guises all over the Baltic States. They are often served for breakfast topped with soured cream and berries, but once I’d eaten them with chocolate buckwheat, there was no going back. The trick to making them fluffy, I find, is to use an extra soft, fine flour, but if none is available, plain flour will be fine. You can buy roasted buckwheat (kasza gryczana) and twaróg cheese from Polish food shops.