Smoked salmon pancakes with lemon & caper crème fraîche

Smoked salmon pancakes with lemon & caper crème fraîche

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Cooking time

Ready in 30 minutes

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 6

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

Nutrition and extra info

Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
396
protein
18.2g
carbs
42.7g
fat
18.2g
saturates
9.8g
fibre
1.8g
sugar
-
salt
2.66g
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Ingredients

Herb pancakes

  • 300g plain flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 3 tsp chopped chives
  • 4 spring onions, finely chopped
  • 300ml milk
  • 50g butter, melted and cooled
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 200g smoked salmon

Dressing

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

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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.

Recipe from olive magazine, December 2008

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juderussell05:39, 24th Dec, 2011

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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serenawynn09:25, 27th Nov, 2010

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

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fayfumbs09:40, 14th Feb, 2009
1

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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emily8410:40, 12th Feb, 2009
5

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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numberonegoat06:30, 26th Jan, 2009
2

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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adamandeve07:48, 3rd Jan, 2009
2

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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