Is everyone ready to welcome the New Year?
It seems to me that the clock is ticking faster and faster every year.
If you are hosting a party this year, how about try some of these?
These are bite sized appetizer also known as amuse-bouche. It’s perfect for any cocktail party with friends or family or when you’re home alone and feeling particularly fancy.
If you love eating sushi with it’s fresh and delicate flavors then you will definitely love this take.
The base is made of cornmeal blinis. Then topped it with pickled ginger (gari) sour cream, thin slices of salmon sashimi and caviar.
Cornmeal Blini Bites adapted from The Foodnetwork’s website
1 8.5-ounce box corn muffin mix
1/2 cup milk
1 large egg, beaten
1/4 cup melted butter
salt pepper
butter or olive oil, for shallow frying
1/2 cup sour cream
salt and pepper
2 tbs chopped pickled ginger (gari)
Fresh salmon sashimi and caviar
Whisk the muffin mix, milk, egg, butter and salt and pepper together until smooth.
Heat a skillet over medium heat. Add 1/4 inch of oil or butter to the pan and heat until shimmering. Working in batches, drop teaspoons of batter into the oil to make small pancakes, about 1 1/2 inches or smaller about 1 inch wide. Cook until bubbles appear on the tops and the bottoms are golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Flip and finish cooking, about 1 more minute.
Top each blini with the sour cream and ginger mixture and then finish it with thin slices of fresh salmon sashimi and caviar.
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Pretty blinis. Those are wonderful appetizers. So festive.
Cheers,
Rosa
Tasty looking little bites! I like everything about these blinis…they would be great with a glass of Champagne or Proseco..
They look so pretty! I’d love some of those little bites, they’d be lovely to ring in the New Year, along with some nice sparkling wine!
Happy New Year!
Beautiful pictures! I agree these little sweet blinis would be perfect for a New Year’s eve bash;-)
Fabulous! Great clicks too.
The little cornmeal bottoms look so good! My husband would love the sushi aspect as well. Tuna is his very favorite raw indulgence. Have a wonderful new year!
I am a blini junkie and these are so perfect. Who knew – using cornmeal mix. By the way I always have a few boxes in my pantry. Wish I was invite to your house to feast on these beauties.
Happy & Healthy NewYear!
We made buckwheat blini a while back. I think that I would definitely prefer the cornmeal blini. The toppings were great, it was the wheat that I wasn’t so fond of…this might be just what I need to enjoy it a bit more. 🙂
I’m still trying to figure out what to serve for our New Year’s weekend meals. These blinis look amazing! The salmon and roe are so pretty on top.
I have not made blini in awhile but your little beauties are tempting me…very delightful!
Happy New Year!
this is such a great idea for appetizers.
i had never heard of blini before, but it looks wonderful
I love little corncakes, and your toppings look so appealing–perfect with a glass of bubbly to toast the new year.
Perfect for new years 🙂 hope yours is fab!!!
Blinis, one of my favorite appetizers. Perfect for New Year Eve 🙂
Happy New Years to you and yours!
I didn’t host a party this year, but I’m saving this recipe for the next party I do throw! These look too good. Happy New Year my friend! Thank you for knowing how to make me smile with your words, your food, and your presence in my life. Blessings in the year to come!
Happy New Year! Hope I am not too late.
The Blinis look just wonderful. I wish I would have some with me to eat right now.
Greetings
Kirsten
This looks fantastic! Your photography is stunning as well! So scrumptious!
Happy New Year! These are adorable. I’ve never made blini myself before but I do love bite-size foods 🙂
They look like the perfect little bites, and delicious too of course.
Absolute perfection!!