blintz

Rolled stuffed pancake

A blintz is a thin rolled pancake filled with sweetened cheese, fruit, or other fillings, then fried or baked.

From Eastern European Jewish cuisine, blintzes are associated with holidays like Shavuot and appear on American diner menus: cheese blintzes with sour cream, blueberry blintzes.

Also spelled blin or blintz.

serving

sour cream

Cultured dairy condiment

syrup · topping · garnish · plated · brunch · breakfast · dessert · side · warm · dollop

fillings

cheese

Fermented milk solid

blueberry · cherry · strawberry · raspberry · apricot · fruit · potato · spinach · mushroom · savory

cooking

batter

Uncooked cake mixture

flip · crispy · folded · wrapped · thin · delicate · buttery · skillet · griddle · fry

related

crepe

Thin, flexible pancake

  • pancakeThin fried breakfast cake
  • latkeFried shredded potato cake
  • pierogiFilled Central European dumpling

manicotti · kugel · knish · cheese danish

Jewish

Ashkenazi

Jews of European descent

  • YiddishAshkenazi Jewish language
  • kosherPermissible by Jewish law
  • ShavuotFestival marking Torah's giving

Hanukkah · seder · tradition · nosh · appetizing · delicacy · shtetl · pareve · schmaltz · dairy

Categories
Opposites
food texture/structure

blintzwaffle

Gridded breakfast cake

flapjack · Belgian waffle · griddle cake · johnnycake

culinary tradition

blintztaco

Filled, folded flatbread

tortilla · injera · dosa · pupusa

Phrases
Family

blini, blintzes, blinis, blintze

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