Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, flammkuchen. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Flammkuchen is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Flammkuchen is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Flammkuchen (pronounced flam-KOOK-en) comes from South Germany and the Alsace region of Translated 'flame cake,' flammkuchen were originally used by bakers to test the temperature of their. Its German name, Flammkuchen (sometimes Flammekueche), translates to precisely the same - flamme=flame and kuchen=tart. The two names are used interchangeably given the history.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook flammkuchen using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Flammkuchen:
- Prepare <Base>
- Take 1 heaped cup Plain Flour OR Bread Flour *about 1 & 1/4 cups
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Baking Powder *optional
- Make ready 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- Take 1/2 cup Warm Water
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Olive Oil *OR Vegetable Oil
- Take <Topping>
- Make ready 1 pinch Salt
- Make ready 100 g Sour Cream *OR Creme Fraiche
- Make ready 100 g Bacon *cut into small pieces
- Get 1/2 Onion *finely chopped
- Prepare Pepper
Flammkuchen, or tarte flambée, is a pizza-like flatbread topped with cream, onions, and bacon. Like other onion pies, Flammkuchen is mostly eaten in autumn, served with a glass of new white wine. I tried flammkuchen for the first time in Freiburg, Germany, at the edge of the Black Forest, in the It seemed as if all of Freiburg University had turned out for beer and flammkuchen, and to celebrate. A Flammkuchen crust is quite thin, like a pizza neapolitana.
Instructions to make Flammkuchen:
- Combine Flour and Salt in a bowl. Add Warm Water and Olive Oil. Mix until a dough comes together. Knead, adding more flour if required, until smooth and elastic.
- Divide the dough into 2 portions if you prefer. Roll out or flatten the dough into a thin oblong or round, and place on a baking tray(s), lined with baking paper if necessary.
- Mix Sour Cream (OR Creme Fraiche) and Salt, spread on the base, scatter Bacon and Onion evenly, and sprinkle with ground Pepper.
- Bake in a hot oven over 200℃ until nicely browned and edges are crispy. *Today I baked it at 240℃ for 8 minutes.
Last week i drove through Flammkuchen-country. From Basel through the Elsass over the Vosges and on to Brussels. This is a special recipe and it's just for you. You can try to share it, but this flammkuchen is so small that you'll end up hungry. Call it what you want, Flammkuchen, German Pizza, Tarte Flambée or French Pizza.
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