Potato Blinis With Creamy Apples

Today's recipe is a mixture of spicy and sweet, a wonderful combination in my opinion.

Until today, I never tried making blinis with potatoes, so this was new for me as well. But since I enjoyed this combination so much, I would like to share.

You should buy sour apples for the sauce, or it will turn out too sweet. I avoid using sugar and add crème frâiche instead, but if you feel that it's too sour for you, you can still add a bit of sugar.


What you need:

* 4-5 potatoes
* milk
* 2 eggs
* flour
* 1-2 chili
* crème frâiche
* 2-3 sour apples
* salt
* pepper
* butter




In a pot, heat 1 table spoon of butter but make sure to watch it so that it doesn't get burned. Peel the apples and cut them into small pieces. Remove the pits of the chili and cut it into pieces. As soon as the butter has melted, add the chili and apples and let them fry a little. Add a little water so that it covers the apples. Reduce heat.

Peel the potatoes, cut them into pieces and cook them in salty water until they're soft. Mash them in a bowl, add salt, pepper, the two eggs, some milk, 2 table spoons of crème frâiche and the flour until you have a nice batter, which shouldn't be too thin neither too thick.

Get back to the apples and check if they're soft, then mash them in the pot after having removed some of the water, or the sauce will be too thin. Add a little pepper and 2 table spoons of crème frâiche into the apple mixture and reduce heat to the minimum. Cover the pot.

Heat a little butter in a pan, then put 1 table spoon of the batter for each blini in the pan. Let them fry on each side until they're brown.

Serve the blinis with the apple sauce and enjoy. :)


~Vail~