Blini with Smoked Salmon or Salmon Roe

Recipe from Gourmet Traveller.

(Makes about 40)

Ingredients 

• 1 tsp dried yeast
• 110gm (3/4) cup plain flour
• 90 gm (3/4) cup buck wheat flour
• 1 egg separated
• 40gm (2 tbsp) unsalted butter, melted
• ½ tsp white sugar
• 185 gm salmon roe
• 1 small white onion chopped
• 3 hard boiled eggs, separated, whites chopped, yolks passed though a sieve
• crème fraiche or sour cream to serve. 

Method 

Combine yeast and 190ml warm water in a large bowl, stir to dissolve, then stand in a warm place for 10 minutes or until foamy. Slowly whisk in plain flour, then cover with a clean tea towel and stand in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled in size.

Meanwhile, in a separate bowl combine buckwheat flour, raw egg yolk, 1 ½ tbsp melted butter, sugar, milk and ½ tsp sea salt and whisk to combine, then fold gently into yeast mixture. Cover and stand in a warm place for 1 hour or until risen by half.

Whisk raw egg whites until soft peaks form and fold through batter.
Heat a heavy based frying pan over a medium heat, brush with remaining butter and cook tablespoonful of batter in batches, for 1-2 minutes or until bubbles appear, then turn and cook for another minute or until cooked through. Keep warm.

Serve blini with onion, salmon roe, hard boiled egg and crème fraiche.