Serves: 6

Nestled between the Rhine River and the Vosges Mountains, Alsace is a charming area in the Grand-Est region of France known for a balanced blend of French and German cultural influences. This is evident in the architecture of cities such as Colmar as well as in Alsace’s culinary traditions. Whether you choose to call it a tarte flambée or a flammekueche, this ‘pizza’ of the Alsace is a good example of this merging of traditions.


Tarte flambée (or Flammekueche)

Ingredients

  • 1 can ready-made pizza dough
  • 200 ml crème fraîche
  • 1 1/2 tbsp mascarpone
  • Freshly grated nutmeg
  • Salt preferably fleur de sel
  • Pepper
  • 2 onions halved and thinly sliced
  • 100 g lardons
  • Few sprigs of thyme leaves plucked

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 200°C and line a baking sheet with baking paper.
  • Place the dough on the baking sheet and stretch it out as thinly as possible.
  • Mix the crème fraîche, mascarpone, nutmeg, salt and pepper.
  • Spread this evenly over the dough.
  • Top with the onions, lardons and thyme.
  • Pop in the oven for 20-25 minutes and serve with an aromatic Riesling.

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