Apple Blintzes Recipes

APPLE BLINTZES OR JEWISH CREPES

Steps:

• Combine eggs and oil in bowl and beat until light and frothy. Beat in milk, then flour and salt. Beat until well blended.
• Cover batter and refrigerate for 15 minutes, until flour absorbs and mixture thickens.
• Place an 8-9 inch frying or omelet pan over medium heat. Lightly grease with paper towel dipped in margarine.
• When pan is very hot, quickly pour 1/4 cup batter and swirl quickly to cover bottom.
• When batter starts curling away from sides of pan, shake crepe onto paper towels. Repeat.
• To freeze at this point, cool and then place between wax paper sheets. Stack and wrap bundle in foil.
• To make blintz filling:
• In a bowl combine apple pie filling, diced apple, lemon juice, pecans and cinnamon.
• Place about one tablespoon filling into center of crepe. Fold top down, bottom up, and sides in to enclose filling. Then place fold side down onto platter to await frying.
• When all blintzes are filled, heat frying pan with 2 tablespoons of melted butter or margarine and fry blintzes, a few at a time, on both sides until golden brown. Add more margarine as needed during frying. Serve hot.

APPLE-RAISIN CHEESE BLINTZES

Steps:

• In food processor, place ricotta cheese, cream cheese and brown sugar. Cover; process until smooth. Refrigerate 10 minutes.
• Spoon 3 tablespoons cheese mixture in center of each crepe. Fold sides and ends of crepe over filling to form a rectangle.
• In 12-inch nonstick skillet, melt 1 tablespoon of the butter over medium heat. Add 5 blintzes, seam sides down, to skillet; cook 1 to 2 minutes, turning once, until golden brown. Remove from skillet to serving platter; cover to keep warm. Repeat with remaining 1 tablespoon butter and remaining 5 blintzes.
• Meanwhile, microwave apples as directed on package. Stir in raisins. Spoon apple mixture evenly over blintzes. Top each with dollop of whipped topping; sprinkle with walnuts and powdered sugar.

APPLE BLINTZES

Steps:

• To prepare batter:.
• Combine flour, sugar and salt.
• In large mixing bowl, beat eggs.
• Alternately add dry ingredients with water, till batter is smooth.
• Using an 8-inch frying pan (or a crepe pan), lightly grease pan and heat until the pan is hot.
• Pour 1/4 cup batter into hot frying pan, cook until batter starts to puff up - probably not even a minute.
• Turn pancake over and brown.
• Turn 'pancake' out onto a cotton dish towel.
• To prepare apple filling:.
• Pare,core and slice apples into 1" thick slices.
• In a medium saucepan, combine apples, water, sugar, margarine and salt; bring to boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer until apples are transparent.
• Set aside and keep apples and syrup warm.
• To assemble crepes:.
• Place 3-4 apples slices on each crepe.
• Place single layer in lightly greased baking dish; pour over apple syrup and heat.
• Serve with remaining sauce.

APPLE & BLUEBERRY BLINTZES

Steps:

• Prepare pancakes following the classic recipe (see 'Goes well with').
• Beat together the mascarpone, vanilla extract, 1 tbsp of the sugar and the egg yolk until smooth and thoroughly combined, set aside. Melt half the butter in a large frying pan and add half the apples and half the remaining sugar. Cook until the apples are tender and starting to caramelise. Remove from the pan and cook remaining apples in the same way. Set aside. Add the blueberries to the pan, cook for 1-2 mins until they start to soften, remove from the pan and add half to the apples.
• Place all the ingredients for the sauce in a saucepan with 75ml of water and cook over a low heat until the blueberries start to break down. Push the mixture through a fine nylon sieve, taste and add sugar or lemon juice if needed. Add the reserved softened blueberries and pour into a jug for serving.
• Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Lay the pancakes out on a work surface and divide the mascarpone mixture into the middle of each pancake in a neat dollop. Top the mascarpone with the apple and blueberry mixture and fold over the sides of the pancakes to completely encase the filling in a neat square parcel. Arrange the blintzes in an ovenproof dish seam side down and scatter with a little caster sugar plus a pinch of ground cinnamon.
• Bake on the middle shelf for about 10-15 mins or until warmed through. Serve 2 blintzes per person with the blueberry sauce alongside in a jug.

CHEESE AND APPLE BLINTZES RECIPE

Steps:

• Make crepes as directed and set aside. Heat butter in medium skillet. Peel and thinly slice apples. Sauté apples in butter 4 to 5 minutes until they are well glazed. Add sugar, water, vanilla and cinnamon. Cook uncovered for about 10 minutes until water has evaporated and mixture is soft. Place 2 tablespoons cheese filling in center of each blintz crepe. Top wit an equal amount of apple filling. Heat butter and oil in large skillet. Fry the filled blintzes 2 to 3 minutes on each side until they are golden brown. Drain on paper toweling and serve hot. Makes 8 blintzes.