Description
Flammekueche is a traditional Alsatian pizza with flour, dry yeast, sugar, salted butter, salt, cream cheese, sour cream, nutmeg, lardons and onion that makes for an easy and delicious homemade pizza dinner recipe!
Ingredients
For the dough
2.5 cups (300g) of flour
1 tsp of dry yeast
1 tsp of sugar
3/4 cup of lukewarm water
1 tbsp + 1 tsp of softened salted butter
1/2 tsp of salt
For the topping
1 cup +1/3 cup (300g) of cream cheese
1/3 cup (80g) of sour cream
1 tsp of salt
A pinch of nutmeg
0.33 lbs. (150g) of lardons (or diced bacon)
2 medium onions (thinly sliced)
To serve
2 handfuls of arugula
Instructions
For the dough
- Mix 1 tablespoon of flour, yeast, sugar and a tablespoon of lukewarm water together.
- Set aside for 10 minutes, until bubbles appear.
- Pour the rest of the flour, salt and the remaining water into the bowl of your stand mixer.
- Mix for a minute (using the dough hook), then add the yeast.
- Mix until the dough forms a ball.
- Add the butter and mix until the butter is absorbed.
- Cover with a clean dish towel and put in a lukewarm place.
- Leave to rest for 4 hours.
For the topping
- Remove the dough from the oven.
- Remove the oven tray.
- Preheat the oven to 482°F (250°C).
- Roll the dough very thinly with a rolling pin.
- Put the dough on the oven tray.
- Mix the cream cheese, sour cream, salt and nutmeg in a bowl.
- Spread the mixture onto the dough, to make the flammekueche base.
- Heat a frying pan on high heat.
- Add the lardons and onion and cook for 5 minutes.
- Put the lardons and onion on the top of the flammekueche base.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Serve with arugula.
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: Pizza
- Cuisine: French