Flàmmeküeche is
an Alsatian dish somewhat similar to
pizza. Instead of traditional Italian ingredients, it uses onions and cream. Alsace is now
part of France, so the name translates
as Tarte flambée. In German
it's Flammkuchen
This recipe comes from «Cuisines de France : Alsace» (Gründ, 1989), but we used our own
pizza dough recipe for the base. There's almost no
difference between the one in the recipe and ours, but we know that ours works.
Ingredients
| quantity |
|
ingredient |
|
step |
| 25 g |
|
butter |
|
1 |
| 300 g |
|
chopped onion |
|
1 |
| 400 ml |
|
Crème fraiche |
|
1 |
| 100 g |
|
cold-smoked ham, chopped into small strips |
|
1 |
| 15 g |
|
salt |
|
1 |
|
|
pepper to taste |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
oil |
|
2 |
The quantity of salt is an estimate that we'll tune later. The original recipe also asked
for nutmeg
and colza oil. We don't like the
former much, and the latter is almost unobtainable; rape oil,
called canola in Australia, is pretty much
the same.
Preparation
Chop the onions and fry lightly in the butter. Add the other ingredients and season.
Prepare the bases and lightly coat with oil. Pour on the topping and bake as for pizza for
about 15 minutes.
