This is a delicious gourmet and healthy recipe perfect as a festive canape or a starter that comes to us straight from Russia.

Ingredients for a dozen small Blinis?:

• 150g (1 & 1/4 cups) buckwheat flour
• 100g (3/4 cup) corn flour
• 5g baker’s yeast (1 sachet)
• 60 cl (2&1/2 cups) skimmed or non dairy milk
• 2 pinch salt
• 3 eggs
• oil

Garnish:

• Fish roe (trout, salmon, lump, sturgeon, pike…)
• Creme fraiche or dairy free alternative (must be thick)
• Lemon

Steps: ?

1. Dilute the yeast in a glass of lukewarm milk and let it develop for 10 minutes.
2. Separate the egg whites from the yolks, reserve the whites in the fridge and gently mix the yolks with the yeast
3. In a mixing bowl, mix both flours, add a pinch salt and make well in the centre.
4. Pour in the egg yolks and yeast slowly, add the rest of the milk mixing continuously until the batter is smooth and homogenous.
5. Let the batter rest for 2 hours at room temperature.
6. Beat the egg whites with the other pinch of salt until stiff. Gently fold them into the rest of the batter.
7. Cook your blinis on medium heat in an oiled blini pan

Bon appetit!

Valérie Orsoni
Your “LeBootCamp Diet” Coach