Alternative names | Blintzes |
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Type | Jewish cuisine |
Place of origin | Eastern Europe |
Created by | Ashkenazi Jewish community |
Serving temperature | Hot, traditionally with sour cream or fruit compote |
Main ingredients | Dough; filling: farmer's cheese or other similar soft cheese, or fruit preserves. |
A cheese blintzes or blintz (Hebrew: חֲבִיתִית; Yiddish: בלינצע) is a rolled filled pancake in Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, in essence a wrap based on a crepe or Russian blini.[1]
Traditional blintzes are filled with sweetened cheese, sometimes with the addition of raisins, or fruit preserves and then slightly sautéed.[1] They are served on Shavuot.[2]The word blintz in English comes from the Yiddish word בלינצע or blintse, coming from a Slavic word блинец [blin-yets] meaning blin, or pancake.[3]
Like the knishes, blintzes represent foods that are now considered typically Jewish, and exemplify the changes in foods that Jews adopted from their Christian neighbors.[4]
For Passover, matzo meal is used instead of flour.[citation needed]