Buckwheat Blinis

Name: Buckwheat Blinis
Yield: Serves Six to Eight
Ingredients: 225 g/8 oz buckwheat flour; butter soured cream caviar, smoked salmon slices, or pickled herring salt and freshly ground black pepper lemon segments; butter soured cream caviar, smoked salmon slices, or pickled herring salt and freshly ground black pepper lemon segments; butter soured cream caviar, smoked salmon slices, or pickled herring salt and freshly ground black pepper lemon segments; butter soured cream caviar, smoked salmon slices, or pickled herring salt and freshly ground black pepper lemon segments; ½ teaspoon salt; 25 g/1 oz fresh yeast or 15 g/½ oz dried yeast; 25 g/1 oz fresh yeast or 15 g/½ oz dried yeast; 1 heaped teaspoon sugar; 750 ml/1¼ pint lukewarm milk; 225 g/8 oz plain flour; 3 eggs; oil for frying

Preparation info

Serves
Six to Eight

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz buckwheat flour
½ teaspoon salt

Starter
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

In a large, warm mixing bowl mix the buckwheat flour with the salt. In a jug cream the yeast with the sugar and add half the lukewarm milk. Mix well and pour it into the buckwheat flour, stirring to a paste. Cover the bowl with a sheet of oiled polythene or a floured tea towel and leave in a warm place to rise.

Put the plain flour into another bowl and make a well in the centre. Into th