Tarte Flambée
Alsatian flatbread with fromage blanc, onion and bacon, baked in two minutes at the top of a furnace-hot oven. Thin to the point of transparency.
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What to Put on the Table With Tarte Flambée
- A glass of Alsace riesling
- Green salad
- More of the same
Sides from the same cuisine on this site: Boulangere Potatoes, Bretzel Alsacien, Brioche Buns.
Photograph credit: Flammekueche (tarte flambée) by Jane Belinda Smith from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
How to Cook Tarte Flambée
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Knead the flour, salt, water and oil to a smooth dough, 6 minutes. It contains no yeast and needs no proving. Rest it 20 minutes.
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While the dough rests, put a baking stone or heavy tray on the top shelf and heat the oven to its absolute maximum, at least 260°C / 500°F, for 40 minutes.
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Beat the fromage blanc with the cream, nutmeg, salt and pepper until smooth and spreadable.
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Divide the dough in two and roll each out on baking paper until you can almost see through it — 2 mm at most.
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Spread thinly with the cheese mixture, leaving a 1 cm border.
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Scatter over the raw sliced onion and the raw lardons, distributed evenly and not heaped.
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Slide onto the hot stone and bake 10 to 12 minutes, until the edges are blistered black in places and the bacon has crisped. Eat immediately, cut into strips.
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Worth Knowing Before You Cook
No yeast. That is what lets it roll paper-thin.
Maximum heat, preheated properly.
Everything raw on top. It cooks in the twelve minutes.
Changing the Recipe
- In a sauce, full-fat crème fraîche can usually take the place of the double cream; single cream is thinner and more likely to split if it boils, so keep it below a simmer.
Keeping What's Left
None. It is stale within twenty minutes of leaving the oven.
Tarte Flambée: Your Questions Answered
How long does Tarte Flambée take to make?
30 minutes of preparation and 20 minutes to 25 minutes of cooking, plus 20 minutes of resting, so allow 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes from start to finish. The recipe serves 4.
Tarte Flambée Nutrition Facts
Per serving, an approximate calculation from the ingredient list. Treat it as a rough guide: part of the energy comes from foods, or weights per item, with no recorded source. How the figures are worked out.
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