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Gentle Pancakes (Russian Blini)

It’s a Pancake week, so it's time to cook delicious pancakes for family and friends. There are big varieties of pancake recipes: chocolate, rye, pumpkin, on potato broth and fruit yogurt. Today I offer you another simple and delicious recipe for kefir pancakes on basis of pate a choux. They are very gentle, soft and thin. To taste pancakes turn out neutral, so they will be suitable for both sweet and salty filling. This time I made pancakes for breakfast, so I served them with honey and gooseberry jam.

Ingredients

60 min

Ingredients

Kefir

250 ml
Water

250 ml
Whole wheat flour

160 g
Egg

2 pcs
Sugar

2 tbsp
Salt

1 pinch
Baking soda

0.25 tsp
Olive oil

2 tbsp

Steps

1. Break 2 chicken eggs in the deep ware.

2. With the help of a mixer, whip the eggs for 2-3 minutes so that they become lighter and increase in volume.

3. Without stopping whipping eggs with a mixer, let’s pour in a ware 250 ml of steep boiling water in thin jet. As a result, high lush foam is formed.

4. Then add kefir to the pancake batter.

5. For pancakes to be more elastic, pour in batter 2 tablespoons of olive oil.

6. Add sugar, salt and food soda to the obtained mixture.

7. The last let’s add into batter sieved wheat flour.

8. Mix the batter to a homogeneous consistence with a mixer or rubber spatula. It should be homogeneous and not too thick. Cover the ready pancake batter with food wrap or towel and leave it for 30 minutes.

9. After half an hour, you can start cooking pancakes. Grease the hot pancake frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil using a cooking brush. Pour a small amount of pancake batter onto the frying pan. By rotating the frying pan with circular movements, distribute the batter evenly throughout the perimeter.