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It is thin-crusted and full of flavor with lots of cheese! But this isn’t your ordinary pizza this is a flammkuchen pizza. It may look like ordinary pizza but the ingredients move it to a whole new level. Want to take a look and learn how to make the best flammekueche or Tarte flambee? Let’s get started!
What You Need For This Recipe
To make this tarte flambée recipe you have to make a dough and add this classic topic. Put the following ingredients on your shopping list:
- Pizza dough – we make flammekueche with pizza dough. Make it from scratch or buy it in the store
- Flour – plain white flour for dusting
- Cream cheese – you can use fromage blanc or Philadelphia cream cheese
- Onion – use regular onion or sweet white onion
- Bacon – works best with bacon cut into small bits
- Salt and pepper – season to taste
Note that the full ingredients list, including measurements, can be found in the recipe card below.
How To Make Flammekueche
- The first step in this recipe is to make your very own pizza dough. You can use store-bought pizza dough but I would recommend making your own.
- Then heat your oven as high as it can go. If that is 500℉/250℃ that is perfect, if it can go higher, heat it. While you let the dough rise you can finely slice your onion. I use a mandoline slicer to get ultra-thin sliced onion rings.
- When the dough has been proofed sprinkle some flour on a board and roll the dough into a round shape. Take the Fromage blanc or white cheese and spread it on the dough base and leave about a 1-inch border at the edge.
- Divide the thinly sliced onion on top of the dough. Sprinkle bacon on the flammkuchen. Put your oven to broil for 5 minutes to let it warm.
- Put the tarte flambée in the oven for about 5 to 6 minutes and you are ready to serve.
An Amazing Pizza Recipe
So, what is a flammekueche? Is it German or French as it is also called tarte flambée? It is a bit of both. The first flammekueche was made by German farmers living near the German-French border who would bake bread just once a week in a wood-burning oven.
To check the temperature the farmers would put a flammekueche in the oven. If the kueche would be done in less than 2 minutes the oven was hot enough to bake bread.
With this German-French region come several different pronunciations for this flammkuchen. When the French annexed Alsace the flammekueche also became part of the French cuisine with a French name of course.
That is how the Tarte flambee came about.
How To Store Your Tarte Flambee
You have several ways to store tarte flambee or the dough:
- Refrigerator – can either make the dough ahead of time, store it in the fridge, and leave it no more than 48 hours in the fridge.
- Freezer – if you want to keep it for longer you can freeze the dough for up to 3 months. You can also make the German pizza and put it in the freezer or bake the pizza and store it in the freezer.
How To Reheat Flammkuchen?
When you have leftover flammkuchen or you made this pizza ahead of time you can heat it best in the:
- Oven – preheat your oven as hot as it can go. You do not need to thaw the Tarte flambee just put it in the middle of the oven on a baking tray. When you reheat leave it in a couple of minutes until hot (3 should do it). Else bake according to the recipe instructions and add 1 minute when it is frozen
- Air Fryer – when you have small pieces of leftover pizza preheat your Air Fryer to 400℉. If you have a pizza basket or grill basket you can use it to heat the leftovers else put the slices in the Air Fryer basket for 3 minutes or until warm
How To Eat Tarte Flambée?
You can eat your tarte flambée with a knife and fork or with your hands. If you eat with your hands cut the flammkuchen in wedges.
- You can fold your wedge in half and take a bite
- Roll the wedge into a spiral
- Cut in long strips and fold them up neatly
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Flammekueche, Flammkuchen or Tarte Flambée
How to make flammekueche, flammkuchen or tarte flambée? Take a look at this super easy recipe. Bake in an ultra-hot oven. Done in no time!
Ingredients
- Dough:
- 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup warm water
- ½ teaspoon instant yeast
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- Topping:
- 1 cup Fromage blanc or Philadelphia cheese
- Flour, for dusting
- 1 medium onion, very thinly sliced
- 200-grams bacon, sliced in thin strips
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Make your very own pizza dough #15462 and let it rise. Then heat your oven as high as it can go at 500℉/250℃ or higher if possible
- Finely slice your onion with a mandoline slicer to get ultra-thin sliced onion rings
- Roll the dough into a round shape. Spread the Fromage blanc or white cheese and on the dough base and leave about 1-inch border from the edge
- Divide the sliced onion on the dough. Sprinkle the bacon on a the flammkuchen
- Put your oven to broil for 5 minutes to let it warm
- Put the tarte flambée in the oven for about 5 to 6 minutes
- Ready to serve
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Nutrition facts
Calories: 556; Fat: 23g; Carbs: 67g; Protein: 17g;
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