Leticia, author of Revealing Flavors , returns to the blog to bring us a recipe that you will love for its simplicity and endless possibilities: making blinis is very easy and can be the perfect solution for an improvised dinner or the perfect appetizer at a more formal meal . Her recipe is accompanied by foie and caramelized apple, a delicious combination... And at the end we give you more ideas to create many other delicious recipes with blinis!
If there is one moment that I envy the rich and famous, it is certainly with the arrival of summer... No, it is not what you are thinking. It is not because of their fabulous holidays, nor because of their wonderful little houses on the beach. It is not even because of their poses like little mermaids on the seashore... If there is one thing that I envy, it is the wonderful dinners that they organize when the sun goes down.
Look, understand me, yes, I also organize dinners at home when the good weather arrives, but my thing is usually a “I'll catch you here, I'll kill you here”, an improvised dinner on the fly where you don't even have time to set a nice table or prepare all those recipes that we have saved for when the guests come...
We agree that dinners in good company are always enjoyable, but sometimes you feel like showing off a little. Does this happen to you too? Well, today I bring you the solution! A delicious starter , which we will prepare in a moment and which will make you look like the perfect hosts. It is a blini with foie-gras and caramelized apple that will delight your guests.
Although the original blinis are made with baker's yeast, I have adapted the recipe so that you can make them with baking powder, so that it is not necessary to let the dough rise, and a 30-minute rest period is more than enough. Perhaps this way they are more similar to pancakes, but I assure you that they are just as delicious.
And if you also have the Mineral B cast iron pan for blinis that allows us to prepare 16 mini blinis at a time , and you take advantage of the resting time of the dough to prepare the caramelized apple, I assure you that it will not take you long to prepare this delicious starter .
Let's go for the blinis recipe!
INGREDIENTS
Ingredients for the blinis:
- 50gr of flour
- 50gr of whole wheat flour
- 200ml of milk
- 1 egg
- 8g baking powder (approx. ½ sachet)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon pepper
- Oil to grease the pan
Ingredients for caramelized apple:
- 2 apples
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
To decorate the blinis, also:
- 1 block of foie gras
Preparing the blinis with foie and caramelized apple
We prepare the dough for blinis:
- In a bowl, sift the flour with the yeast. Add the milk, salt, pepper and egg yolk (reserve the egg white).
- We mix well, using a manual whisk , until all the ingredients are perfectly integrated.
- We cover the bowl with film and let the mixture rest in the refrigerator for approximately 30 minutes.
We prepare the caramelized apples:
- We peel the apples, remove the core and cut them into thin slices using a very sharp knife (if you want to use all the pulp, the Opinel peeling knife is fantastic).
- We put a frying pan, or as in my case the Le Creuset skillet , on medium heat , add the butter and, once it has melted, we also add the apple.
- When we see that the apple is tender, we add the brown sugar to the pan and keep it on the heat until the sugar has dissolved and the apple is golden, being careful not to burn it. We set it aside.
We prepare and assemble the blinis:
- After the dough has rested, we beat the egg white that we had reserved until stiff, either with awhisk or with a hand mixer , and once it is beaten we add it to the previous mixture, with circular movements and using a spatula so that the egg whites fall as little as possible.
- We put the De Buyer Mineral B cast iron blini pan on a medium heat, we grease each hole with a little oil, using abrush , and once the pan is hot we put a teaspoon of the batter in each hole. When we see that the batter begins to bubble and the edges are set, we turn them over.
- We let the blinis cook on the other side, they will need less time, and when they are ready we take them out onto a plate that we will cover with aluminum foil so that they do not cool down while we finish making them all.
- We repeat the process until we finish the dough, lightly greasing the holes in the pan each time.
- Once we have all the blinis ready, we put a teaspoon of foie gras and a slice of caramelized apple on each one .
De Buyer Mineral B iron blinis pan , Pols Ceramic bowl , Bérard flour spoon , Pallarès knife and Serrano foie gras pad
More recipes with blinis
I hope you like the recipe and enjoy it as much as we did at home. The combination of foie gras and caramelized apple is a real success, both for its presentation and its delicious contrast and flavor.
In my case I made mini-blinis, but you can also make blinis of about ten centimetres in diameter with the help of blini pans (the Skeppshult or De Buyer are designed exclusively for this!).
It is a very easy dough to prepare and you can combine it with a multitude of delicious ingredients, usually they are presented with salty foods : (1) assembled with a little cream cheese and salmon, (2) with arugula and chicken, (3) with arugula, eggs and shrimp, (4) with omelette and mushrooms, (5) with asparagus and mushrooms, (6) with Roquefort cheese, arugula and walnuts, (7) with cream cheese and chatka, (8) with cream cheese, quail eggs and cherry tomatoes, (9) with hard-boiled egg and caviar... Choose your favorite ingredients and give free rein to your imagination, you will get it right!
