 Traditional cheese blintzes topped with blackberry compote | |
| Alternative names | Blintzes |
|---|---|
| Type | Jewish cuisine |
| Place of origin | Eastern Europe, Israel, other countries with a significant remaining Jewish population |
| Created by | Ashkenazi Jewish community of Central and Eastern Europe |
| Serving temperature | Hot, traditionally with sour cream or fruit compote |
| Main ingredients | Flour, water, milk, egg, kosher salt, sugar, traditionally filled with farmer's cheese, or also cottage cheese, cream cheese, ricotta, or fruit. Fried in butter, cooking oil, or margarine. For Passover, matzo meal is used instead of flour. |
A blintz (Hebrew: חֲבִיתִית; Yiddish: בלינצע) is a rolled filled pancake in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, in essence a wrap based on a crepe or Russian blini.[1]
- ^ "blintze | a thin, usually wheat-flour pancake folded to form a casing (as for cheese or fruit) and then sautéed or baked". Merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
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