Cheese Blintzes Recipe
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 pound farmers cheese
- 4 ounces (half an 8-ounce package) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch salt
- Butter for baking or frying blintzes
- Sour cream and/or jam for serving
- In a blender, place all the ingredients and whirl until smooth, scraping the sides a few times.
- Or, in a large bowl, whisk the eggs.
- Whisk in the flour, sugar, and salt.
- Gradually whisk in the water until the mixture is well blended and smooth.
- Set aside while preparing the filling.
- (Makes 2 1/2 cups.)
- Crumble the farmers cheese into a medium bowl.
- Add the cream cheese, sugar, egg, cinnamon, and salt and mash with a fork until well blended.
- Rub a 6-inch nonstick skillet with a paper towel moistened with vegetable oil.
- Heat over medium heat.
- Add 2 tablespoons of the batter, tilt the pan to evenly coat the bottom, and cook until golden brown on the underside, about 3 minutes (although successive crepes will brown faster).
- Tip the crepe onto a plate.
- Place a small piece of waxed paper on top to separate crepes.
- If not using right away, wrap tightly and refrigerate or freeze.
- Continue making crepes, stacking them with waxed paper, oiling the pan as needed, and thinning the batter with a tablespoon of water if it gets thick.
- You will get 20 to 23 crepes.
- Place a crepe on a work surface.
- Spoon a scant 2 tablespoons of filling onto the bottom half.
- Fold in the sides and roll up.
- Repeat with the remaining crepes and filling.
- Blintzes may be wrapped and refrigerated or frozen once filled.
- If baking blintzes, preheat the oven to 350 degrees and butter a 13 x 9 inch glass baking dish plus a smaller baking dish for those that cannot fit into the larger dish.
- Arrange blintzes seam side down in single layers in the buttered dishes.
- Dot with 2 to 3 tablespoons butter.
- Cover with foil and bake for 20 minutes.
- Uncover and bake until lightly browned and heated through, 10 to 15 minutes longer.
- If frying blintzes, melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat.
- Add enough blintzes seam side down to fit in the pan without touching.
- Fry until lightly browned and crisp on the underside, about 2 minutes.
- Turn and fry until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes more.
- Transfer to a large platter, cover loosely with foil, and keep warm in a 200 degrees oven while you fry the rest.
- Add butter to the pan as needed.
- Serve.
eggs, flour, sugar, salt, water, farmers cheese, cream cheese, granulated sugar, egg, ground cinnamon, salt, butter, sour cream
Taken from www.chowhound.com/recipes/cheese-blintzes-11469 (may not work)