Potato Blinis - Lithuanian.

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 lb potato
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon salt
• vegetable oil
• butter

Recipe

• 1 grate the potatoes on the star pattern of your grater, so it comes out looking like a sort of paste.
• 2 stir in the salt, then start making a well in the mix with a large spoon, removing as much water as possible.
• 3 when you are fed up with this procedure, mix in the egg. at this stage you may want to add a spoonful of flour (plain) or cornflour, but try to resist as it alters the taste of the blini. a spoon of potato flour or starch would be better, but nothing at all is really necessary.
• 4 add oil and butter to a hot pan, put spoonsful of mixture - 1 spoon per blini - and cook until golden, turn and cook the other side until golden. place on a platter, covered, in a warm oven to keep warm until the rest of the mixture is cooked.
• 5 my mother-in-law has always served these with several side dishes of quartered tomatoes, sliced lengthwise cucumbers both fresh and pickled (polski ogorki), sour cream, caviar, as either an entree or a main, depending upon how many pounds of potatoes used and how keen you are.