Cornmeal-Dill Blini with Goat Cheese and Smoked Trout Roe
 
Ingredients
  • For Blini:
  • ½ cup yellow cornmeal
  • ½ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 Tablespoon chopped fresh dill
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 large egg
  • Vegetable oil for frying
  • Topping and garnish:
  • About 2 cups goat cheese (room temperature)
  • Sour cream (optional)
  • About ⅓ cup caviar (strongly suggest the Marky's Smoked Trout Roe)
  • Fresh dill sprigs
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 250 degrees. Have ready a heatproof plate covered in paper towels to keep blini warm while making the full batch.
  2. For Blini: In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the cornmeal, flour, baking soda, salt, and dill. In a two- cup glass measuring cup, pour in the milk then add egg and whisk briefly to combine.
  3. Brush a large skillet with some vegetable oil; you don't want a lot of oil, but brush on more as needed for each batch.
  4. Using a 1 Tablespoon measuring spoon, scoop up the batter and quickly and carefully pour into hot pan make blini but do not have them touch so they keep their round shape. Flip over when bubbles evenly appear on top. The whole process takes less than a minute to cook each one.
  5. Transfer the cooked blini to the prepared lined plate and keep warm in the oven. Repeat using all the cornmeal batter. You will have about 2-1/2 dozen blini.
  6. Place about 1 Tablespoon of goat cheese on top of each blini followed by about a teaspoon of caviar, and sprinkled with a little chopped dill or a tiny dill sprig. Serve immediately.
  7. Note: If you do not care for goat cheese, you can substitute a dollop of sour cream instead, or mix some sour cream into the goat cheese and stir well. (That's what I did, as my husband does not like goat cheese by itself. It tasted great!)
Recipe by The Culinary Cellar at https://theculinarycellar.com/hallmark-movie-recipe-all-of-my-heart-the-wedding/