Cheese and lemon blintzes are a delicious and versatile dish that can be enjoyed for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Made with a simple dough that is filled with a creamy cheese mixture and topped with a sweet and tangy lemon sauce, these blintzes are sure to please everyone at your table. They can be made ahead of time and reheated, making them a great option for busy weeknights. Whether you are looking for a special occasion recipe or a comforting weekday meal, cheese and lemon blintzes are sure to hit the spot.
Here are our top 7 tried and tested recipes!
CHEESE AND LEMON BLINTZES
Traditionally, blintzes are associated with Shavuot. This is a traditional holiday breakfast for our family. Rolled pancakes filled with cheese, fruit or both, they make a delicious dessert. Sweet blintzes carry on the tradition of cheese and fruit fillings. Serve either with sour cream and powdered sugar, or maple or chocolate syrup. We like to serve them with fruit pie fillings, like apples, blueberries, or cherries, and then put a dollop of sour cream and powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar on them.
Provided by onlyrose
Categories 100+ Breakfast and Brunch Recipes Crepes
Time 34m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Mix flour, eggs, and salt together in a bowl until smooth and creamy.
- Lightly coat a small skillet with cooking spray. Pour 2 to 3 tablespoons of batter into the skillet. Swirl around until even and then place skillet over medium heat. Cook until sides begin to curl away, about 2 minutes. Turn and cook other side until lightly browned, about 1 minute more. Put onto a plate.
- Mix cream cheese, raisins, sugar, egg yolks, lemon peel, vanilla extract, and cinnamon together in a bowl to make the filling. Place 2 to 3 teaspoons of filling on each blintz and roll up like a small burrito.
- Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet over medium heat. Cook the filled blintzes, turning carefully, until lightly browned, about 30 seconds each.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 237.1 calories, Carbohydrate 17.8 g, Cholesterol 124.3 mg, Fat 16.1 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 6.1 g, SaturatedFat 9.5 g, Sodium 234.1 mg, Sugar 7.5 g
CHEESE BLINTZES
Provided by Food Network
Time 35m
Yield 10 to 12
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- For the crepe: Beat milk, eggs and 1 cup water in a bowl. Add flour and powdered sugar to make a thin batter.
- Pour 1/4 cup batter on a well-buttered medium hot 10-inch fry pan, spreading it as thin as possible. Fry until light brown, then flip and brown other side until light brown. Turn out on wax paper. Repeat with remaining batter.
- For the cheese filling: Mix ricotta, cream cheese, eggs, powdered sugar and vanilla in a bowl. Spread evenly over the surface of a crepe. Tuck in ends and roll up. Cook in butter in a fry pan until brown on both sides. Repeat with remaining crepes and filling.
- Serve with sour cream and fruit preserves.
BEAUTY'S CHEESE BLINTZES
My grandmother, Beauty, used to call these little packages of love: thin dough around sweetened cheese, topped with fresh fruit. They're perfect for brunch or anytime you want to make loved ones feel special.
Provided by Dawn Lerman
Categories main course
Time 30m
Yield 4 to 6 servings
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Prepare batter. In a large bowl combine eggs, milk, salt and vanilla and blend well. Gradually add flour. Beat well until there are no lumps in the batter.
- Make the filling. Combine all of the filling ingredients in a bowl and mix together until smooth.
- Grease a 6- or 7-inch skillet until it is hot but not smoking.
- Put a ladleful of batter into the skillet. Tilt pan to swirl the batter so it covers the bottom of the skillet.
- Fry on one side until bubbles form and the top is set. The bottom should be golden brown. Carefully loosen edges of the crepe and slip it out of the skillet onto a plate.
- Repeat the above procedure until all the batter is used. Grease skillet each time before pouring batter.
- After all the crepes are made, begin filling them. The brown side should be facing up. Place 1 tablespoon of filling on one edge.
- Roll once to cover filling. Fold the sides into the center and continue rolling until completely closed.
- After all the blintzes are assembled, heat 2 tablespoons of butter in the skillet and place each crepe, seam side down, in the skillet and fry 2 minutes on each side, turning once.
- Serve with a dollop of sour cream or Greek yogurt, and garnish with fresh strawberries and a touch of powdered sugar.
CHEESE BLINTZES
Blintzes are out of this world and a great comfort food. These are to be served with sour cream or perhaps you'd like them with a fruit syrup. Courtesy of torahbytes.org.
Provided by Manami
Categories Breakfast
Time 1h
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Filling:.
- Mix all ingredients.
- Beat well until smooth.
- Refrigerate.
- Blintzes:.
- Beat eggs, oil and milk well.
- Add flour and salt beat well.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- For each blintz, melt 1 teaspoon butter in a 7" skillet.
- Pour in 1-1/2 teaspoons batter, spread batter completely over bottom of pan.
- Cover over medium heat until lightly browned on one side.
- Turn crepe over and brown the other side.
- Remove.
- Put 1 Tablespoon cheese on browned surface of each blintz.
- Fold and roll.
- Put in a glass baking dish and keep warm in oven.
- If necessary they could be frozen and when needed thaw and warm and then serve with a dollop of sour cream or a nice fruity syrup.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 689.3, Fat 56.7, SaturatedFat 31.2, Cholesterol 288.8, Sodium 795.6, Carbohydrate 29.7, Fiber 0.6, Sugar 6.9, Protein 16
CHEF JOHN'S CHEESE BLINTZES
If you're ever talking to someone who's been to, or used to live in, New York City, and the subject of cheese blintzes comes up, you will almost always see their face light up. While there are several steps, they're fairly simple, and so totally worth the effort.
Provided by Chef John
Categories 100+ Breakfast and Brunch Recipes Crepes
Time 1h15m
Yield 5
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Place 3 eggs, flour, milk, water, vegetable oil, sugar, salt, and vanilla extract in a blender. Blend until completely smooth, 1 or 2 minutes, scraping down sides as needed. Let batter sit at room temperature 30 minutes.
- Whisk together ricotta cheese, cream cheese, lemon zest, egg, sugar, and salt in a mixing bowl. Mix together thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate.
- Heat a 10-inch, non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Spray or brush lightly with vegetable oil. Pour in about 1/4 cup batter. Immediately swirl batter around to coat bottom of pan. Cook until surface looks dry, about 1 minute. Flip crepe over to briefly cook other side, about 30 seconds. Remove to a plate. Repeat with the rest of batter. Stack crepes.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly butter a baking dish.
- Spoon 3 to 4 tablespoons of filling onto the crepe, about an inch from edge nearest you. Fold edge over filling and flatten slightly. Fold in both sides, then roll up crepe into a small filled rectangle, ending with the seam on the bottom, creating a blintz.
- Melt butter in skillet over medium heat. Cook the blintzes until golden brown on both sides, turning gently, about 2 minutes. Transfer to buttered baking dish.
- Bake in preheated oven to firm up the filling, about 12 minutes. Cool blintzes 10 minutes before serving. Dust lightly with confectioners' sugar.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 452.1 calories, Carbohydrate 33.2 g, Cholesterol 207.2 mg, Fat 26.9 g, Fiber 0.8 g, Protein 19.4 g, SaturatedFat 12.9 g, Sodium 517.8 mg, Sugar 9.9 g
BLUEBERRY-LEMON CHEESE BLINTZES
Provided by Aida Mollenkamp
Time 2h20m
Yield 12 blintzes
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- For the blintzes: Add all the ingredients to a large bowl and whisk until evenly combined, about 30 strokes. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour and up to 12 hours.
- Heat a large nonstick pan over medium heat. Rub the pan with a paper towel dipped in oil. To check that the pan is properly heated, sprinkle the pan with a few drops of water and the water will "dance" around before evaporating.
- Add 1/4 cup batter, tilting the pan to evenly cover or spread out in a circle using the back of a spoon. Cook until just set and browned, about 1 to 2 minutes. Flip and cook until second side is lightly browned, about 1 minute more. Remove from the heat and repeat with remaining batter. (Can be made up to 1 month ahead. Stack crepes and store covered in the freezer.)
- For the filling: Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and whisk until smooth. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use. (Can be made up to 1 day ahead.)
- For the berries: Combine sugar, water, and 1/2 cup of the berries in a small pan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook until the berries break down, sugar is dissolved, and mixture has slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat. Add the remaining berries to a small bowl and pour in the syrup. Stir in the lemon juice and let cool to room temperature, at least 30 minutes. (Can be made up to 1 day ahead.) Cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
- To assemble: Heat the oven to 375 degrees F and arrange a rack in the middle. Spoon 3 tablespoons of the filling down the center of each crepe. Fold the crepe over the filling, fold in the sides and roll up like a burrito. Put on a baking sheet and repeat until all the crepes have been filled. Bake until warmed through, (the internal temperature should register 160 to 165 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer) and filling is soft, about 15 minutes. Transfer to a serving platter and serve with the berries.
CHEESE BLINTZES WITH BLUEBERRY SAUCE
I've loved these since I first tried them a couple of decades ago. In more recent years I've used a combination of 1/2 cottage cheese and 1/2 cream cheese for a creamier filling. Time does not include time for chilling sauce. I have on occasion let the blueberry sauce cool only slightly and served warm; I like it better chilled, though--it's thicker.
Provided by echo echo
Categories Breakfast
Time 40m
Yield 6-9 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Make sauce: Wash and crush berries.
- Mix in sugar thru salt and 1¼ cups water and put in saucepan. Bring to a boil and boil 1 minute.
- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Chill.
- Make blintzes: Combine flour and salt, add 1 cup water and mix until smooth.
- Add 4 eggs and beat well.
- Add milk and mix to a thin batter.
- Heat a small amount of shortening in a 6" skillet.
- Pour in ¼ cup batter and cook slowly until pancake is lightly browned on bottom and set on top.
- Turn out with browned side up.
- Repeat, making about 18 pancakes.
- Using a hand mixer, blend cheese through vanilla with remaining egg.
- Put a spoonful of cheese mixture in center of each pancake, fold in ends and roll up.
- Brown in a small amount of hot shortening.
- Serve topped with a dollop of sour cream with cold blueberry sauce over the top.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 360.4, Fat 9, SaturatedFat 4.1, Cholesterol 191.3, Sodium 862.4, Carbohydrate 50.1, Fiber 2, Sugar 20.9, Protein 19.1
Tips for Making Perfect Cheese and Lemon Blintzes:
- Use fresh, high-quality ingredients. This will make a big difference in the flavor of your blintzes. - Make sure your batter is thin enough. If it's too thick, your blintzes will be thick and doughy. - Heat your pan over medium-low heat. If the pan is too hot, your blintzes will burn. - Cook your blintzes for a few minutes per side, or until they are golden brown. - Serve your blintzes with your favorite toppings, such as sour cream, fruit, powdered sugar, or maple syrup.Conclusion:
Cheese and lemon blintzes are a delicious and versatile dish that can be enjoyed for breakfast, brunch, or dessert. They are easy to make and can be customized to your liking. With a little practice, you'll be able to make perfect blintzes every time.
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