How To Use Blini In A Sentence
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The blini of ground beef wrapped in a thin crêpe disappeared before I could get a taste of it, so I guess that means it must have been good, right?
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Order the ‘Black and White Series’ and you'll get Baerii caviar served on blinis or toasts; ‘French Masterpiece’ is duck or goose foie gras served on toast.
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Set aside until you have 12 blinis, then divide between 4 plates and serve with lashings of sour cream or butter, and the smoked salmon or caviar of your choice.
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Some of my favorites: masa harina (ground from the same corn used to make tortillas, it tastes like it; the key ingredient in tamales); chickpea flour (also called besan; used for breading, in simple water-based batters, or for authentic socca); and buckwheat flour (for delicate pancakes known as blinis and as a nice addition—in small doses—to yeast bread).
The Food Matters Cookbook
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Blini, to be authentic, should be made from a batter of buckwheat flour leavened with yeast, and further lightened with beaten egg white and whipped cream.
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Silky smoked salmon is garnished with clabbered cream, shaved fennel, caperberries, microgreens, and a stack of warm, ethereal buckwheat blinis.
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First came a platter heaping with fresh blini, dripping with butter.
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The brunch menu features a version on either muffins or blinis, with spinach, ham, poached egg and hollandaise sauce.
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Serve caviar on warm blini with optional creme fraiche.
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Bertinet adds a generous amount of crème fraîche to his batter, which gives it a deliciously rich flavour, but I prefer the more assertive tang of sour cream – and you can use the rest of the pot to top the blinis.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Starter: blinis with a choice of many toppings including smoked salmon, marinated herring and aubergine caviar £3.99
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I had the Russian blinis: buckwheat pancakes served with gravlax, prawns, herring roll mops and two superb garnishes of chopped herrings - one with whole grain mustard, the other with mayonnaise.
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It's my chance to chat about Russia and the Ukraine and have vodka and blini during blini week.
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So, if you're having a new year's eve dinner party, blinis pedants' note: like panini, "blini" is already plural but we'll stick with English convention here are the perfect way to kick things off.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Some of the several hundred A-list invitees were employing huge soup spoons to slather the stuff onto blinis in one of the many living rooms of his mansion.
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For the tapioca blini: In a bowl, whisk together flour, melted butter, beer and egg whites; season with salt and pepper.
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Obviously blinis, like bread, benefit from a little bit of patience.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Helena's beer adds an aggressive malty note to her blinis which, as we're more likely to be scoffing them with wine than vodka in this country, is not an ideal match with pre-dinner drinks.
How to cook perfect blinis
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For it isn't as if you haven't heard the sound of the balalaika since those days, or eaten blinis, either.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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The buckwheat pancakes and galettes of Brittany, and the blinis of E. Europe, can also be regarded as forms of griddle bread.
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Waiters in sleek black suits zigzagged back and forth among the guests, stopping to dispense smoked salmon on black bread and caviar blinis.
Excerpt: The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein
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I had the Russian blinis: buckwheat pancakes served with gravlax, prawns, herring roll mops and two superb garnishes of chopped herrings - one with whole grain mustard, the other with mayonnaise.
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It would be a fine accompaniment for that sophisticated Russian nibble, the blinis - a three inch savoury pancake topped with soured cream with chives and shredded smoked salmon.
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Dressed in their peasant outfits, we were supplied with Russian tea, blini and vodka.
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It's well worth it though – while the beer adds a pleasant spongy texture to the finished blinis, Bertinet's versions are so light and fluffy that they almost melt in the mouth.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Locals and tourists alike find it hard to resist the allure of low-priced smoked fish, blinis, and beer served in a friendly, and, to be frank, kitschy atmosphere.
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Many local restaurants serve dishes such as pelmeni, blini, and shchi (cabbage soup).
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A blini batter is usually made with buckwheat flour and yeast, but here's a lighter version using all wheat flour with an added crunch of sweetcorn.
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Helena's beer adds an aggressive malty note to her blinis which, as we're more likely to be scoffing them with wine than vodka in this country, is not an ideal match with pre-dinner drinks.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Keller's blinis are unusual in that the principal ingredient is potato – a whole pound to just 2 tablespoons of flour.
How to cook perfect blinis
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But however tasty the results, it can't be denied that they're more like little röstis than blinis: both go very well with smoked fish, but even I couldn't eat more than a couple and still do justice to my dinner and in any case, we did them back in October.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Blini are small crêpes served with different types of fillings; pirozhki are fried rolls that usually have a meat or vegetable filling.
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He recommends the caviar of the rare albino sturgeon, served preferably on a warm blini with cr fraiche.
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On January 15, in Trafalgar Square there will be 500 singers and dancers (all in costume naturally), ice skaters, balalaikas, hot borsch, blini, and pirozhki.
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Are blinis the best culinary kick-off to a celebration, or do you have another, even more sophisticated crowd pleaser up your sleeve?
How to cook perfect blinis
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Warmer and more welcoming than bruschetta or melba toast, and more interesting than pastry, blinis are one of those things, like cheese straws, that's really only worth eating if you make them yourself.
How to cook perfect blinis
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Unfortunately the blini was buried under a huge, bland, flavourless (save for the small sliver of horseradish here and there), sickly mound of mayonnaise that added nothing to the plate.
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The blini of ground beef wrapped in a thin crêpe disappeared before I could get a taste of it, so I guess that means it must have been good, right?
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The menu is luscious and specific - turtle soup accompanied by a fine amontillado; champagne with Blinis Demidoff; Cailles en Sarcophage with Clos Vougeot 1846; cheese and fruit; pudding; brandy and coffee.
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The book is arranged in a helpful way, too, including chapters on breakfast and brunch, bellinis and blinis (party food), dinner for two and cooking for a crowd.
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Nobody has vodka and blinis any more, they have champagne and caviar instead.
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But I did -- blini to start with, cold spicy boiled wild boar, which I almost can't say; baked stag ham; shchi -- if any of you who are local know what shchi is, it's a cabbage soup -- trout; goose and red wine; and then - I don't even know what this means in French or English -- plombir.
Readout To The Pool By Senior Administration Official
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Despite many a restaurant menu in the States, blini is the plural form of blin, the ultra-thin, large pancake.
Peace Meals
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This dish makes a beautiful entrée when served as a topping for blinis.
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The gravadlax with horseradish buckwheat blinis was a standard assembly job.
Times, Sunday Times
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Good wine in the restaurant plus dishes like blinis and seared kangaroo make this a must-see masterpiece.
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Sprinkled with lemon juice, served with oven-warmed blinis and crème fraîche, this was a delicious first course.
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Our only ho-hum selection was the blini with jam, which was nearly indistinguishable from its Bulgarian counterpart - the rolled pancakes called polachinki.
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Elena ordered a full Russian feast of chebureki, chicken Kiev, piroshki, blini, and, my absolute favorite, black caviar.
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