Today is ‘Forgiveness Sunday’, the last day of the ‘pancake festival’ (Butterweek) in Russia.
According to one old tradition, the more pancakes have been eaten during the Butterweek, the more successful will be the year.
As per another custom, a girl at the twilight, should took a pancake, went out and asked the first stranger his name. It was believed, that man’s name and look is similar to the future husband’s appearance. In case if the girl didn’t like the name ‘n’ look, she had to give a pancake to the guy. If she liked it, she had to eat a pancake herself. 🙂
There are lots of pancakes varieties, with savoury or fruit fillings. Mine 3 favourites: with cottage cheese, sweet condensed milk and salmon 🙂
Making pancakes could be really exciting and interesting, you can involve the whole family, invite friends and enjoy the holiday.
You can surprise your family by preparing this delicious pancake pie!
What’s more, I decided to participate in Fiesta Friday, organized by Angie from TheNoviceGardener. I’m happy to be involved in such virtual parties and get new friends. 🙂
The basic Russian pancakes recipe
Serves 4-6
Ingredients:
650ml full fat milk
50ml warm water
250g all-purpose flour
2 eggs
a good pinch of salt
2 tbsp of sugar
2 tbsp of sunflower oil
1/3 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp of lemon juice or vinegar
Preparation:
- Break the eggs into large bowl, add salt and sugar, whisk.
- Add the oil and milk, whisk again.
- Sift the flour into the bowl, whisk thoroughly.
- Add warm water and whisk to incorporate any lumps.
- Pour lemon juice or vinegar into a spoon with baking soda on it (to dissolve the soda), quickly add it into the batter and whisk a couple of times.
- While the mixture is resting (it allows the ingredients to blend together better), heat the pan; grease the pan with some oil, if needed.
- Evenly coat the pan with the batter. Cook about a minute, then flip the pancake and cook for 15-30 seconds more.
- Keep prepared pancakes in warm place.
You can already enjoy the tastiest pancakes, dipping them into a raspberry preserve or hazelnut sauce, or prepare the pancake pie with salmon. It could be wonderful lunch or dinner for the weekend. 
Pancake pie with salmon and cream cheese
Serves 4-5
Ingredients:
8 pancakes
200g salted or smoked salmon, always better homemade (find the recipe here)
120-150g cream cheese
2tbsp sour cream (substitute with crème fraîche, or single/double cream)
4-5 tbsp finely chopped dill
I used red caviare for the decoration, you can do it with salmon or just keep the top as is.
Assembling:
- Blend the cream cheese with sour cream until smooth.
- Cut the salmon into small cubes.
- Arrange the first pancake on a plate, spread the cheese mixture and sprinkle with dill.
- Cover with the second one. Spread some salmon on the pancake.
- Cover with the third pancake.
- Repeat all steps.
Have a lovely pancake time! 🙂
milkandbun 
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Very interesting.! had never seen a pancake pie recipe before. Looks delicious with the salmon.
Yep, it’s really delicious as it looks 🙂
I saw the caviar and I was hooked. Lovely dish! Gene would go bonkers over this – thanks for sharing 🙂
It’s easy to get hooked on the caviar 😀 Thank you for stopping by my blog!
Wow, Mila, this looks beautiful! This would go well as an appetizer, too, don’t you think, cut into smaller pieces or even rolled? A fancy appetizer for a bridal shower or something. 🙂 Thank you for joining the party and bringing such a gorgeous dish with such a beautiful tradition behind it! XOXO
Thanks, Angie! You’re good hostess 🙂 I quite agree, as appetizer it goes well too.
Mila, this is gorgeous! The most interesting pancake I’ve ever seen!
I’m glad that you liked it 🙂
I love the idea of a forgiveness day and your pancake dish looks beautiful!
Thank you so much!
So inspiring! I will try this for the guest I have next week.
Thanks, Maya! I hope you will like it as I do 🙂
Wow!!! This looks amazing and I love the pictures!
Thank you so much, dear Francesca!
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This looks so, so good! And so, so different! I just saw this on featured on Fiesta Friday. Congrats! Pinning this now 🙂
Thanks for stopping by 🙂 and hope to see you again!
What a great idea and a beautiful looking dish :).
This is so beautiful! Simple AND sophisticated, I love it!
Thank you very much!:)
Thank you for sharing. I find it interesting to learn other cultural stories based around food. Your images are beautiful. Susan
Thank you for such warm comment, Susan! 🙂
This looks soooooo good! I am making this this weekend!
Thanks! Waiting for your feedback 🙂
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Ach! I need to make sure to remember this for next Shrove Tuesday!!!!!! Your blog is wonderful…..
That pancake pie is absolutely sensational! 😀 Thank you for visit and comment!
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I found this post on Fiesta Friday. As soon as I am back in my own kitchen (I’m overseas at the moment) I’m going to give this wonderful dish a try. It looks just lovely.
Hi Holly! Thanks for stopping by my blog, looking forward to communicate more. 🙂
Have a great trip!
Mila
I want that pancake pie with the salmon!!!
Ooooops it’s already finished/eaten, so the only way- to prepare it 😉 Thanks for commenting!
Thank YOU for posting it! 😙👍😙👍😙
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