Recipe - Meat Filled Blintzes

BLINTZES
1 cup Allpurpose flour
2 teaspoon Sugar
One half teaspoon Salt
4 Eggs
2/3 cup Milk
1/3 cup Water
1 tablespoon Butter, melted

MEAT FILLING
1 teaspoon Vegetable oil
3 md Onions, finely chopped
1 pound Ground beef, pork or veal
2 tablespoon Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Salt
One fourth teaspoon Ground black pepper
One fourth teaspoon Paprika
Sour cream

1. Prepare blintzes: Combine flour, sugar, salt, eggs, milk, water and 2 t.
melted butter in a blender or processor for 1 minute or until smooth.

2. Heat remaining butter in 8" skillet over medium heat just until bubbly.
For each, pour about 2 T batter into hot skillet, rotating until batter
covers the bottom. Cook until blintz bottom is golden brown, 12 min. Top
should look cooked through and not wet. Turn out onto waxed paper; stack
with sheet of waxed paper between each. When done, you should have 12.

3. Prepare meat filling: Heat oil in large skillet over med heat. Add
onion; saute' 58 min or til softened. Add beef; saute' breaking up with
wooden spoon, 35 min or until no longer pink. Stir in flour, salt, pepper,
paprika; cook, stirring 12 min. Cool slightly before filling blintzes.

4. Heat oven to 400. Lightly grease 15x10x1" baking pan.

5. Spoon 2T filling onto center of browned side of each blintz. Fold top
and bottom of blintz over top of fillilng; fold in sides. Place blintzes,
seam side down, on prepared pan.

6. Bake in 400F oven 810 min or until lightly browned. Turn over. Bake
another 8 min or until lightly browned. Serve immediately with sour cream,
if desired.

NOTES : per serving: 347 calories, 17 g. fat Recipe by: Family Circle 5/97
Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #604 by "terily@tenet.edu" terily@tenet.edu
on May 11, 1997