Cherry Cheese Blintzes Food

CHERRY CHEESE BLINTZES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the milk, eggs and butter. Combine flour and salt; add to milk mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours., Heat a lightly greased 8-in. nonstick skillet; pour 2 tablespoons batter into the center of skillet. Lift and tilt pan to evenly coat bottom. Cook until top appears dry; turn and cook 15-20 seconds longer. Remove to a wire rack. Repeat with remaining batter. When cool, stack crepes with waxed paper or paper towels in between. Wrap in foil; refrigerate., In a blender, process cottage cheese until smooth. Transfer to a small bowl; add cream cheese and beat until smooth. Beat in sugar and vanilla. Spread about 1 rounded tablespoonful onto each crepe. Fold opposite sides of crepe over filling, forming a little bundle. , Place seam side down in a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 10 minutes or until heated through., Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, bring cherries, 2/3 cup water and sugar to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until heated through. Combine cornstarch and remaining water until smooth; stir into cherry mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Serve with crepes.

CHERRY CHEESE BLINTZES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, gently whisk the milk, eggs and butter together. Combine flour and salt and add to the milk mixture. Mix well until there are no lumps. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Lightly grease an 8-inch nonstick skillet and heat to a medium heat. Pour 2 tablespoons of batter into the center of the skillet, lifting the pan and tilting, to evenly coat the batter over the bottom of the skillet. Cook until the top of the crepe appears cooked and dry; then flip and cook for a further 15-20 seconds. Remove from the pan to cool on a wire rack. Continue with remaining batter.
• Once cooled, stack the crepes with waxed or paper towels in between each layer and wrap in aluminum foil to refrigerate.
• Place the cottage cheese into a blender and process until smooth. Add to a small bowl, with cream cheese and whisk together until smooth. Add the sugar and vanilla and continue whisking.
• Spread 1 rounded tablespoon of the sweet cream cheese mixture onto each crepe. Fold the crepe over on opposite sides, over the filling, forming a little packed bundle.
• Grease a 15x10x1-inch baking pan and place the crepes open-seam side down. Bake, uncovered, in an oven at 350 °F for 10 minutes until heated through.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, bring the cherries, ⅔ cup water and sugar to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes until sauce is heated through.
• In a separate bowl, stir the cornstarch and remaining water until smooth with no lumps.
• Add the cornstarch water to the cherry syrup and return the saucepan to a boil. Cook, while stirring, for another 2 minutes until thickened.
• Serve the cherry sauce of the cheese filled crepes.

CHEESE BLINTZES

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.

CHERRY VANILLA BLINTZES

Steps:

• Put the milk, water, eggs, and flour into a food processor or blender and process until smooth, about 10 seconds. If necessary, scrape down any solids that stick to the sides. Add the butter and process for a few more seconds to blend. Refrigerate, covered, for at least 2 hours or overnight. Set a 10-inch, non-stick crepe pan over moderately high heat, then spray with non-stick vegetable spray. When the pan is hot, remove the pan from the heat and add 2 tablespoons of batter, swirling to coat the bottom of the pan. Cook for 1 1/2 minutes and lightly browned. Set aside on a plate, cooked side up, and continue with the remainder of the batter.
• Place 2 tablespoons of Cherry Filling in the lower center of the blintz. Fold up once from the bottom then fold over the sides. Roll up the rest of the way. Repeat with the rest. Heat 1 tablespoon of canola oil and 1 tablespoon of butter in a pan. In 4 small batches, fry the blintzes fold side down until golden brown. Gently flip to fry the other side. Serve with sour cream or yogurt.
• In a small saucepan, cover the cherries with water and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat and let rest. In a bowl, mix together the cream cheese, vanilla, sugar and egg until blended. Gently mix in the pot, farmer or cottage cheese. Drain the cherries and fold in.

CHEESE BLINTZES

Steps:

• For batter: Combine flour, sugar and salt.
• Whisk in milk, a little at a time, and whisk in eggs until batter is smooth.
• In a 7 inch non-stick pan, melt butter over moderately-high heat.
• Half fill a ¼ cup measure with the batter and, off the heat, pour the batter into the pan.
• Tilt and rotate pan quickly so that batter covers bottom in a thin layer and return any excess back into the bowl.
• Return pan to heat, loosen edge of blintz with a spatula, and cook until underside is browned lightly.
• Turn and brown other side.
• Repeat, using up all of batter.
• For filling: Combine farmer’s cheese, cream cheese and yolks until almost smooth and beat in sugar, salt, vanilla and lemon zest.
• Spoon 2 tblsps of filling onto blintz; fold in 2 sides and roll up to enclose filling.
• Put seam side down on a baking sheet.
• Repeat, using up all of crepes and filling.
• (blintzes can be made ahead and frozen at this point. Thaw and proceed with recipe.) In each of 2 large skillets, melt 2 tblsps of the butter over moderately-high heat, add blintzes and cook for 2 minutes.
• Turn carefully and cook until golden and heated through.
• Transfer to a heated platter and serve with sour cream and cherry preserves.

TRADITIONAL CHEESE BLINTZES

Steps:

• Beat eggs in a bowl. Add milk, oil, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Beat in flour using an electric mixer until well blended. Let batter stand for 15 to 30 minutes.
• Mix the remaining 1 teaspoon salt, cottage cheese, sugar, sour cream, egg yolk, and cinnamon together in a bowl to make the filling.
• Melt butter in a 6- to 7-inch skillet. Spoon a portion of the batter onto the skillet; cook until lightly browned on the bottom, about 3 minutes. Turn out onto a tea towel. Repeat with the remaining batter, thinning with small amounts of water if necessary and greasing the pan after every 2 to 3 blintzes.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.
• Melt the remaining butter in the skillet over low heat, about 1 minute.
• Place a blintz on a clean work surface with the uncooked side up. Add 1 tablespoon filling and roll up, completely covering the filling. Place on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining blintzes. Brush filled blintzes with melted butter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until brown, 15 to 20 minutes.

CHERRY AND ORANGE BLINTZES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Combine first 5 ingredients in a bowl, stirring until blended.
• Combine juice and cherries in a small bowl. Microwave at high for 30 seconds; let stand 10 minutes.
• Drain and coarsely chop cherries. Stir cherries into cheese mixture.
• Spoon 3 tablespoons cheese mixture in the center of each crepe; fold sides and ends of crepe over.
• Place, seam side down, in a 13 x 9-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray.
• Cover and bake at 350° for 15 minutes or until blintzes are thoroughly heated. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve immediately.