blintz

/blɪnts/

Other forms: blintzes

A blintz is a very thin pancake that's rolled around a filling and either baked or fried. Breakfast blintzes are often filled with sweetened cream cheese and topped with fruit preserves and a dusting of powdered sugar.

Blintzes can be sweet or savory, stuffed with sugary ricotta cheese and baked, or filled with ground meat or potato and fried. Every blintz starts with a blini, the crepe-like pancake that is wrapped around a filling before being cooked. Sometimes, savory blintzes are topped with a dollop of sour cream. Blintz, from the Yiddish blintze, stems from the Russian blinyets, "little pancake."

Definitions of blintz

1. noun

   a thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked
   synonyms: blintze

   type of:

   battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake

   a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle