If there is one perfect breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner or snack dish in the repertoire of Jewish cookery, we vote for the Cheese Blintz. Tidy packages of golden pancakes stuffed with a sweet mild cheese and pan-fried to perfection. Hot, warm, or cold, it’s a hard dish to resist. My Great Aunts, Shang and Emma, used to make me these delicious blintzes as a kid.
Cheese Blintzes are classics on the Hanukkah holiday table (referencing the Hanukkah holiday’s traditional spotlight on foods with cheese, sweetness and oil), but we depend on this recipe for our Yom Kippur Break Fast as well. It’s also a great dairy option for Shavuot and a sure favorite for a Bar/Bat Mitzvah kiddush luncheon.
Makes 8-10 Blintzes
Ingredients
BATTER:- 3 large eggs
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tbsp sugar
- pinch of salt
- 3/4 cup canola oil
- 1 cup flour
- 1/4 - 1/2 cup water (as needed)
- non-stick cooking spray for pan
- butter for browning (have about 6 tbsp on hand)
- 12 oz cream cheese
- 2 cups ricotta
- zest of 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup sugar
- pinch of salt
- sour cream
- apple sauce
Instructions
MAKE CREPE BATTER:- Whisk together all ingredients except flour.
- Sift in flour gradually and blend well.
- Add water as needed to thin the batter for easy pouring.
- Refrigerate batter for 30 minutes.
- Heat a non-stick 8” frying pan over medium heat.
- Coat pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Pour approximately 1/4 cup batter into the pan and swirl the batter around quickly to form a thin crepe.
- Cook crepes 1 at a time, 1 side only. This will take about 45 seconds.
- Slide crepe out of the pan and repeat until you use all the batter.
- Combine filling ingredients until smooth in a food processor, blender or by hand.
- It not making the blintzes right away, refrigerate the filling.
- For assembly, portion 1/4 - 1/2 cup of filling in the middle of the blintz.
- Fold top down over filling, fold in the two sides, then fold over to close in the filling
- Heat 1 tbsp butter in the pan. Add 2 blintzes to the pan at a time.
- Flip after 1-2 minutes until lightly browned.
- Serve immediately with your choice of sour cream, apple sauce, berries & powdered sugar.
Left to right: Andy's Great Aunts Emma and Shang, and his mother, Myra Outwater. 
Thank you for the recipes. Happy Hannakuk!!!
Please no cream cheese no ricotta we always used cottage cheese
Ricotta and cream cheese is much better.
Me too
Me too, alittle sugar then the sour cream
Everything looks most delicious. Thank you.
Hate the curd of cottage cheese, I use farmer cheese and it’s so yummy!
Do you put the filling on the cooked or uncooked side of the crepe?
Jelly please
Perfect timing, just had some this morning and will keep receipe for future.
Thanks much.
Well, if you go that route then the best thing to use Framers cheese.
It makes sense to coat the cooked side, because after folding it up you’ll be frying the side on the outside. ❤
Fill the cooked side, use Farmer’s cheese and add cooked white rice to the second half of your filling batter. for a real treat!!
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How many blintzes does it make