Cheese Blintzes are crepes that are usually filled with fruit, farmer’s cheese, or potato and then fried in butter. Some people like them sweet and other people like them slightly savory. Some people serve them like dessert with powdered sugar and whipped cream. Other people like them topped with sour cream.
I was shopping at Sprouts and farmer’s cheese was at an incredible price that I could not pass up so I decided to make cheese blintzes today. Latter I went back to Sprouts and purchased fruit to make a fruit sauce for the blintzes.
It’s best to make the cheese filling the day before so you can drain some liquid out of it.
Anyways my recipe made me 11 crepes so I will say 11 servings. I did have maybe enough cheese left over for one more crepe.
Ingredients for around 11 servings
4 eggs
1 cup water
6 Tablespoons sweet butter – melted
2 Tablespoons Greek Yogurt
couple drops vanilla extract
1 cup flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 Tablespoons butter – to fry blintzes with
2 cups farmer’s cheese – for filling
1 cup whipped cream cheese – for filling
1/4 cup sugar – for filling
1 egg – for filling
1/2 lemon – just the fresh juice – or more to taste – for filling
1 teaspoon vanilla – or less to taste – for filling
pinch sea salt – for filling
Directions
Make the filling first.
In a medium bowl combine the cheeses, sugar, egg, lemon juice, vanilla, and salt. This goes in a paper towel lined colander over night. The top you can loosely plastic wrap. In the morning I changed the towel so it could drain some more. Keep refrigerated till ready to fill blintzes.
Make the crepes. In a large bowl combine the eggs, water, melted butter, yogurt, vanilla, flour, sugar, and salt.
Melt 1/2 the butter on medium heat in a non stick pan.
Use a serving spoon to measure the batter. One serving spoon seemed to be the perfect amount of batter for my pan. You don’t just pour the batter in you have to turn the pan on its side to shape the crepe around the pan………..Once you get a nice round crepe you wait till it looked cooked and flip it and leave it on heat maybe 1/2 a minute more.
I had a pan lined with plastic wrap to collect the crepes. Between each crepe I used more plastic wrap so they wouldn’t stick together.
Repeat till done and add butter as needed.
When you are ready to make the blintzes.
Either pipe or spoon out the cheese.
You roll it up like a burrito.
Bottom and top of crepe over the cheese.
Now you roll till rolled up.
Repeat till done.
Fry the crepes in butter on medium heat on both sides till slightly browned.
You can enjoy now or add sour cream or preserves. Some people like them sweet with powdered sugar……
I made a mixed fruit sauce. It was a pint of blueberries, a pound of strawberries, and 10 ounces of pitted cherries. I added 2 ounces of butter and about 1/2 a cup of sugar. I mixed it together and this went in a 350 oven in two pans for around an hour.
Enjoy!!!!
