Smoked salmon pancakes with lemon & caper crème fraîche

Smoked salmon pancakes with lemon & caper crème fraîche

A really easy starter that's fit for the festive feast - and the pancakes can be made up to two days ahead

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 30 minutes

Method

  1. To make the pancakes, mix the flour, baking powder, chives and spring onions with a large pinch of salt. Whisk the milk, butter and eggs together then whisk this into the dry ingredients to make a thick batter.
  2. Heat a non-stick frying pan then drop in 1 large tbsp of the batter. Cook until holes appear on the surface then flip over and cook the other side until golden.
  3. To make the dressing, mix the crème fraîche with the lemon juice and capers and half the dill (you want it to drizzle so add more juice if necessary). Put two pancakes on each plate, top with some smoked salmon then drizzle over the dressing and sprinkle with a little more dill.

Per serving

396 kcalories, protein 18.2g, carbohydrate 42.7g, fat 18.2 g, saturated fat 9.8g, fibre 1.8g, salt 2.66 g

Recipe from olive magazine, December 2008.

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  • 03 January 2009

    Lesley rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    The herby pancakes were disappointingly bland. The amount of pancake ingredients was way too much. I made half the quantity of pancake mixture and still got 30 mini-pancakes!

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  • 14 January 2009

    Eibhlin commented on this recipe

    I also think pancakes were bland. It was okay but I wouldn't make it again

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  • 14 January 2009

    Eibhlin rated this recipe

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  • 26 January 2009

    Mrs Horse rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    The pancakes were way too stodgy and there was so much mixture! the pancakes definitely needed salt and pepper and i only served one on each plate - my guests still liked them but i don't think i would do the pancakes again.

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  • 12 February 2009

    Emily rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I made these for a Christmas dinner with friends. They were easy to make ahead and to transport to my friend's house - just put the dressing in a little bottle. I didn't have any dill so just used extra chives. Delicious starter - everyone got 2-3 fairly large pancakes and they looked really pretty too.

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    14 February 2009

    fay rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Didn't' like the pancakes very much and agree with the bland and copious amounts comments made previously. Sorry, won't be making again.

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  • 27 November 2010

    reenie commented on this recipe

    make these every christmas and everyone adores them. I keep the pancakes small so stodge-quota irrelevant!

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  • 24 December 2011

    JudeR commented on this recipe

    Served the smoked salmon and the gorgeous creme fraiche mix on blinis (packet mix from M&S - dead handy!) at a wee Xmas party last night - went down a storm!

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  • 16 September 2012

    MelanieI rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Definite winner! My husband loved this. I cheated though and bought the pancakes!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 30 minutes

Ingredients

HERB PANCAKES

DRESSING

  • 6 tbsp crème fraîche
  • 1 lemon , juiced
  • 2 tbsp nonpareil capers , rinsed
  • 2 tbsp chopped dill
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Per serving

396 kcalories, protein 18.2g, carbohydrate 42.7g, fat 18.2 g, saturated fat 9.8g, fibre 1.8g, salt 2.66 g

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