blini girl

Ingredients

• 70g buckwheat flour
• 70g plain flour
• 1/3 tsp baking powder
• 175ml warmed milk
• 1 egg , separated
• 125g butter , plus an extra 1 tsp, melted
• smoked salmon and soured cream, to serve
• 1/3 tsp dried yeast
  1. Sift the buckwheat flour, plain flour and baking powder together. Mix the dried yeast with the warmed milk, then separate the egg and add the yolk to the yeast mix.
  2. Next whisk this into the dry ingredients to make a smooth batter. Stir in the 1 tsp melted butter.
  3. Whisk the egg white to stiff peaks, then gently fold into the batter, keeping as much volume as possible.
  4. Clarify some butter by gently melting it in a pan, then pour off the clear yellow liquid to use (throw away the white bit left behind in the pan). Heat the clarified butter in a frying pan and drop in dessertspoons of the batter. Cook until the surface starts to bubble, then flip over and cook the other side. Serve with soured cream and smoked salmon on top.