| Blintz | |
| Alternate Name: | Blintzes |
| Country: | Eastern Europe, Israel, other countries with a significant remaining Jewish population |
| Creator: | Ashkenazi Jewish community of Central and Eastern Europe |
| Type: | Jewish cuisine |
| Served: | Hot, traditionally with sour cream or fruit compote |
| Main Ingredient: | Flour, water, milk, egg, kosher salt, sugar, traditionally filled with farmer's cheese, or also cottage cheese, cream cheese, ricotta, or fruit. Fried in butter, cooking oil, or margarine. For Passover, matzo meal is used instead of flour. |
A 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. They are served on Shavuot.[2] The word blintz in English comes from the Yiddish word Yiddish: בלינצע or, 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]