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Recipe:

Blinis With Tea Smoked Trout and Horseradish Sauce

Prep Time: 8 hours
Cook Time: 1 hour
About 30 blinis

Ingredients for The Blinis

• 400 gr. plain flour
• 500 ml. milk (warmed or room temperature)
• 4 free-range eggs
• 60 gr. white sugar
• 1tsp salt
• 120 ml. vegetable oil
• For Smoking The Fish
• 4 tbsp jasmine tea leaves
• 10 tbsp fragrant Thai Jasmine rice
• 1 kg rainbow cod (filleted)
• 3 tbsp demerara sugar
• Fish Marinade
• 5 tbsp prosecco (optional)
• Salt to taste
• Chopped Dill For Flavour
• Horseradish Sauce
• A bottle of Horseradish
• Creme Fraiche
• Finely Chopped Dill

Instructions

    1.    Making the Blinis
    2.    Sift the flour and add to the milk, whisk
    3.    Add the eggs, sugar and salt to the mixture and keep whisking until smooth
    4.    Add the vegetable oil and stir.
    5.    Cover with cling film for 30 minutes at room temperature for the batter to prove
    6.    Get a large heavy bottom pan and oil it lightly with melted butter
    7.    When the pan is very hot and spoon 1 tbsp of the mixture onto the pan
    8.    This will take about 1 minute to cook If the pan is hot enough
    9.    Turn over and cook for another 15 seconds.
    10.    Place on a plate and put some butter on top to keep them soft and stop them from sticking together.
    11.    Marinade the Fish
    12.    Prosecco or wine (I've used the matching prosecco here)
    13.    In a bowl, place the washed fish and cover with the wine, herbs and seasoning. Leave for at least 4-5 hours or   overnight.
    14.    To Smoke the fish
    15.    Use a large wok or a big roasting pan and line it with foil
    16.    Place the tea, rice and sugar on top of the foil
    17.    Place another piece of foil on top to cover the rice and tea mix.
    18.    Heat this up on top of the stove and it will start to smoke quite quickly.
    19.    Place the fish on top of the foil, drizzle with a little olive oil and seasoning
    20.    Cover the roasting tin with a secure lid or another piece of foil, making sure that it is secure.
    21.    Leave it on moderate heat over the heat for about 15-20 mins.
    22.    Turn off heat and leave to cool.
    23.    Flake the fish when ready to serve.
    24.    For the Horseradish Sauce
    25.    Mix 3 tbsp of horseradish with about 1tbsp chopped dill and leave in the fridge until needed
    26.    Putting it together
    27.    Place 1tbsp of fish on top of a blini
    28.    Spoon over some of the sauce
    29.    Sprinkle with more dill for decoration

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