Blinis with eggs and smoked trout have been our Christmas day breakfast for years. similar to smoked salmon in taste we find the texture of smoked trout more pleasant. Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon ar a classic combination as the flavours compliment each other so well, so why not smoked trout. Blini's are a mini buckwheat pancake and are often used as a carrier for appetisers. They are widely available from supermarkets but should be heated through to soften them before use. Any spar blinis can be frozen for later use.

Serves 2 and can easily be increased as packets of smoked trout and blinis usually provide more than is needed for 2 people

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Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 20ml double cream per egg, you can substitute for milk but they aren't as nice!
• 2 slices of smoked trout
• Salt and pepper
• 6 blinis, 3 per person

Method

1. Scramble your eggs per the basic recipe
2. carefully grill the blinis to warm them through or give them a zap in the microwave for 30 seconds
3. Lay a small slice of trout on each blini, enough to cover.
4. Using a teaspon put a spoon of eggs on each piece of trout
5. Serve on a warm plate
6. Eat and enjoy

Serving suggestions and variations

• Not keen on the idea of eating uncooked fish chop up a small amount of trout and stir it into the eggs after they have been cooked. The heat of the eggs will cook the salmon in no time, serve spooned onto the blinis.
• Try alternative breads with the dish, use a round cutter to make bite sized pieces. Rye or low GI bread has a nutty flavour to it which is complimentary, soda bread has a lovely dense texture which is also pleasant.
• substitute smoked salmon for the trout
• if you don't like fish try using ham
• omit the trout, sprinkle the blini topped eggs with a little grated cheese and grill to brown before serving. This is a good variation on our recipe for Eggy Scrumble.

Acknowledgements

I first came across smoked salmon topped blinis from a Delia Smith recipe which involved making the blinis as well and was a whole heap of effort to go to. We didn't rvisit Delia's recipe until we came across blinis in the supermarket. wWe added blini's to the list of things we were never going to try making again and started experimenting with what you can top them with. Let us know what else you try them with!

Fancy something else from our collection then why not try one of the following;

• Fancy a tasty snack and have a few onions to use up, have a go at Onion Rarebit.
• For an unsusaly way of using up old runner beans have a go at runners in tomato sauce, they make a great addition to a grilled chop.
• if you are having a celebration then why not serve up Louise's Lemon Meringue Pie, a Sout African version were the filling is more cheesecakey than the British variety.

Eat and enjoy!