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What to cook for Maslenitsa

Fifty-three dishes for Maslenitsa week with a price per serving: eight kinds of blini from thin kefir ones to lean ones on water and healthy oat ones, ten fillings and sauces from mushrooms in sour cream to condensed milk with nuts, blini with meat, chicken and salmon for dinner, blini cakes, bundles and lasagna, syrniki and pancakes, fish soup and sbiten. Ready days: classic, sweet, filling, no oven, healthy, guests.

53recipes
$0.00–$3.74per portion
5 min – 2 h 50 minto cook
45–783kcal per portion

Plan a week from this collection

Seven days of blini, and by Wednesday you are tired of them. Here are fifty-three dishes for Maslenitsa week, each with time, calories and a price per serving at your store's prices. Eight batters: thin kefir blini with holes, yeast blini on milk, buckwheat, green spinach, pumpkin, lean on water without eggs, healthy on oat flour and thick pancakes. Ten fillings and sauces: mushrooms in sour cream, cottage cheese with dill, herring with egg, chicken with cheese, caramel apples, berry and chocolate sauces. And what to make from blini when they are left over: a blini cake, mushroom bundles, lasagna, cabbage pie.

Below are six ready days. "Classic" with thin blini, sour cream, mushrooms and fish soup, "Sweet" for kids, "Filling" with meat and chicken, "No oven" on one skillet, "Healthy" on oat flour and cottage cheese, "Guests" with caviar, salmon and a blini cake. The button "Build a week from the collection" opens the quiz, and the planner builds a Maslenitsa week to match your answers: flour, eggs, milk and kefir are bought once for all seven days.

Ready menus

Classic day

Thin kefir blini, sour cream with herbs, mushrooms with onion in sour cream, herring with egg and onion, honey, jam and condensed milk, fish soup. A stack of blini in the morning, fillings for it until evening.

Sweet day

Thick milk pancakes, blini with apples and cinnamon, blini with banana and chocolate spread, berry sauce, condensed milk with nuts, blini cake with cottage cheese and cherries. For kids and whoever is with them.

Filling day

Blini with meat, blinchiki with meat, egg and rice, blini with chicken and mushrooms in cream, blini lasagna, blini pie with cabbage, creamy salmon soup. Blini as dinner, not dessert.

Healthy day

Oat flour blini, oven syrniki without oil, green spinach blini, zucchini fritters with cheese, buckwheat blini, thyme tea. From 400 to 500 kcal per serving, no frying in oil.

Guests

Blini with red caviar and sour cream, blini roll with salmon, mushroom blini bundles, liver blini cake, salmon and spinach rolls under cheese, blini cake with sour cream and berries. A table for Forgiveness Sunday.

Starters 12

Sour Cream with Herbs and Garlic Snack30 min128 kcal≈ $0.64

Creamy Mushroom & Onion Filling for Pancakes Snack15 min166 kcal≈ $1.39

Pickled Herring with Egg and Red Onion for Pancakes Snack12 min261 kcal≈ $1.65

Cottage Cheese with Dill and Garlic for Pancakes Snack10 min236 kcal≈ $1.57

Cheesy Chicken & Green Onion Pancake Filling Snack25 min307 kcal≈ $1.90

Russian Blini with Caviar and Sour Cream Snack20 min424 kcal≈ $3.42

Smoked Salmon & Cheese Blini Roll-Ups Snack35 min394 kcal≈ $2.87

Cheese & Mushroom Crepes Pockets Snack50 min396 kcal≈ $1.39

Liver Pancake Cake Snack1 h 10 min416 kcal≈ $0.60

Red Caviar with Butter Snack5 min226 kcal≈ $3.66

Smoked Salmon Roll with Cream Cheese for Blini Snack10 min177 kcal≈ $2.73

Pan-Fried Mushrooms with Onion for Blini Snack25 min157 kcal≈ $1.23

Soup 2

Pink Salmon Ukha with Millet Lunch40 min398 kcal≈ $2.30

Smoked Salmon Soup with Cream Lunch40 min435 kcal≈ $3.74

Mains 13

Beef-Stuffed Blini Dinner1 h658 kcal≈ $1.69

Meat-and-Rice Pancakes (Russian-Style) Dinner1 h 5 min723 kcal≈ $1.92

Cheese-Stuffed Chicken & Mushroom Crepes Dinner1 h784 kcal≈ $3.02

Russian-Style Baked Pancake Lasagna with Meat Sauce Dinner55 min665 kcal≈ $2.29

Pancake Pie with Cabbage and Egg Lunch50 min686 kcal≈ $1.42

Ham and Cheese Blini Rolls Dinner35 min619 kcal≈ $1.37

Wholesome Banana Oat Flapjacks Breakfast20 min518 kcal≈ $0.42

Spinach Green Pancakes Breakfast30 min464 kcal≈ $0.54

Zucchini Fritters with Cheese and Garlic Dinner20 min481 kcal≈ $1.66

Buckwheat Pancakes Breakfast40 min533 kcal≈ $0.57

Salmon & Spinach Blini Rolls Dinner45 min559 kcal≈ $3.11

Eggless Water Crepes (Vegan) Breakfast30 min459 kcal

Pancake with Eggs, Ham, and Cheese Breakfast15 min614 kcal≈ $1.61

Dessert 26

Thin Hole-Pocked Curd Pancakes Breakfast35 min508 kcal≈ $0.48

Honey, Jam, and Sweetened Condensed Milk for Blini Snack5 min208 kcal≈ $0.16

Fluffy Milk Pancakes Breakfast20 min585 kcal≈ $0.32

Apple-Cinnamon Pancakes Breakfast35 min592 kcal≈ $0.86

Banana and Chocolate Spread Pancakes Breakfast20 min629 kcal≈ $0.35

Berry Syrup for Pancakes Snack10 min130 kcal≈ $1.44

Sweetened Condensed Milk with Walnuts for Pancakes Snack5 min339 kcal≈ $0.89

Pancake Cake with Quark Cream and Sour-Sweet Cherries Snack2 h 50 min421 kcal≈ $1.43

Fluffy Milk Yeast Pancakes Breakfast2 h581 kcal≈ $0.37

Lazy Pan-Fried Cottage Cheese Pancakes Breakfast15 min641 kcal≈ $2.26

Honey Spiced Mead (Sbiten) Snack15 min105 kcal≈ $0.12

Baked Cottage Cheese Pancakes (Oil-Free) Breakfast30 min492 kcal≈ $1.94

Thyme Honey Lemon Tea Snack5 min45 kcal≈ $0.05

Sour Cream Pancake Cake with Berries Snack2 h 40 min482 kcal≈ $0.98

Russian Milk Pancakes Breakfast30 min701 kcal≈ $0.63

Fluffy Yogurt Pancakes Breakfast20 min596 kcal≈ $0.61

Farmer's Cheese Pancakes with Sour Cream Breakfast25 min555 kcal≈ $1.76

Ricotta Pancakes Breakfast20 min588 kcal≈ $1.72

Blini with Cottage Cheese, Baked in Sour Cream Breakfast50 min665 kcal≈ $1.61

Spiced Baked Apples Snack15 min172 kcal≈ $0.62

Pumpkin Pancakes Breakfast40 min494 kcal≈ $0.60

Cheesecake Pancakes with Raisins Breakfast45 min584 kcal≈ $1.52

Sweet Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Sour Cream Sauce Breakfast45 min575 kcal≈ $1.45

Fluffy Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Apple Breakfast25 min685 kcal≈ $0.89

Caramelized Apples for Pancakes Snack10 min205 kcal≈ $0.57

Rich Chocolate Sauce for Pancakes Snack5 min340 kcal≈ $1.33

How to use it

Press "Build a week from the collection": the planner puts blini on breakfasts, blini dishes on lunches and dinners, fillings on snacks and builds a shopping list in whole packs. The quiz has a Maslenitsa event that builds a table for your number of guests from blini, fillings and soup. Every recipe has a servings counter.

Bake a stack of blini in the morning for the whole day; under a towel they keep until evening and two days in the fridge, and yesterday's blini are better for the cake, bundles and lasagna. Mix kefir and yeast batters ahead, they need to rest. Each filling here is sized for eight blini; serve savoury and sweet ones together, the stack goes faster.

Plan a week from this collection

Questions

Which blini should I make for Maslenitsa?

Thin kefir blini with holes for fillings, yeast blini on milk for sour cream and caviar, buckwheat for savoury, pumpkin and green spinach for kids, lean on water without eggs and healthy on oat flour. There are eight batters here, each with calories and a price.

What fillings go with blini?

Savoury: mushrooms with onion in sour cream, cottage cheese with dill and garlic, herring with egg and red onion, chicken with cheese, red caviar, salmon with cream cheese. Sweet: caramel apples, berry sauce, condensed milk with nuts, chocolate sauce, honey and jam. Each is sized for eight blini.

What can I make from leftover blini?

A blini cake with cottage cheese and cherries or with sour cream and berries, bundles with mushrooms and cheese, blini lasagna with meat sauce, a pie with cabbage and egg, a salmon roll, meat blinchiki for the freezer. Yesterday's blini are even better for this than fresh ones.

What can I cook for Maslenitsa besides blini?

Syrniki and pancakes, fish soup of pink salmon or salmon with cream, sbiten with honey and thyme tea. By tradition Maslenitsa week has no meat but does have fish, dairy and eggs, so fish soup and syrniki belong on the table.

What can I cook for Maslenitsa on a healthy diet?

Oat flour blini, oven syrniki without oil, green spinach blini, buckwheat blini, zucchini fritters with cheese, cottage cheese with dill as a filling. The Healthy day of six such dishes stays within 400 to 500 kcal per serving.