Blinis - small version

The festive season has started, where I get together with friends and family and there is lots of food. Last Saturday I was invited for dinner and I helped out a little in the kitchen.

I baked small blinis, prepared according to a recipe from the beautiful cookbook 'Het Gerecht' by Filip Verheyden.


It's a fast and easy recipe without yeast, so the dough doesn't need to rise as in my previous post.

Serves 4

60 g buckwheat flour
40 g normal (wheat) flour
1 egg
1,5 dl milk
butter for baking
salt
sour cream and caviar

Mix both flours, add egg yolk, milk and a pinch of salt. Whisk it into a homogenous dough and let it rest for 5 min.
Beat the egg white and mix it gently into the dough.
Heat a little butter in a pan. Add several teaspoons of dough and fry both sides for 2 min on high heat.
Let the blinis cool and serve with sour cream and caviar.


Note: We also served a few blinis with smoked salmon in stead of caviar.
You can sprinkle a bit of lemon juice over the finished blinis.


We got very spoilt: loads of delicious appetizers, next to the blinis


a salad with deep-fried mozzarella, rucola and baked cherry tomatoes, as a starter


and a fantastic fish soup



served with homemade rouille


Quite amazing that after all of this we still managed to eat my Danish apple dessert, served with vanilla ice cream from Comus & Gasterea (described in my post about Brussels goodies).

We ended the evening with a game of Colonists of Katan - very enjoyable, especially for the winner :-p

Thanks R and F for your great hospitality!