Bread dough, a crème fraîche-based cream, bacon and onions - that's all you need to make THE national dish - alongside the sauerkraut platter - of Alsace, France. Okay, actually a wood-fired oven is also essential, as this is the only way to give the tarte flambée - aka German pizza, Flammekueche, or Flammkuchen - its typical crust. Even if there are variations with Munster cheese, mushrooms or ham tarte flambée is a simple dish. And a social one. Traditionally, you order several, place them in the middle of the table and then everyone simply helps themselves with their hands. Here's all you need to know.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:53 Alsace, capital of tarte flambée
01:14 The wood-fired oven
01:34 The dough
02:52 The cream
03:10 The toppings
04:15 Burned bread?
04:42 A social dish
05:21 Outro
CREDITS
Report: Jens von Larcher
Camera: Cédric Tacussel
Edit: Andreas Hyronimus
Supervising editor: Ruben Kalus
#tarteflambee #pizza #flammkuchen
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Flammekuche is not a pizza, it’s its own thing. And it’s awesome.
I lived in the small town of Altenheim (Neuried) north of Lahr during my time with the Canadian Air Force in the Cold War, mid to late 1980's. Right across the border from Alsace, it featured a well-known restaurant on the main street through town. During the fall for a limited time Flammkuchen with Neuer Wein was on the menu. They had a wood fired oven out the back to bake them up. Folks who knew came from far & wide to visit the little village. The combination of bacon/onion Flammkuchen & sweet Neuer Wein was off the charts delicious! The baking was continuous & the waiter would walk into the room serving by the slice rather than an entire 'kuchen' per table. Similar to marking your coaster with how many beer you've had in a Gasthaus, they kept track of how many slices of Flammkuchen you had. There would be several variations of the standard bacon/onion served & you could choose to pass or partake of the non-standard slices.
I had this one time at a small cafe. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
as an italian, i love it.
My absolute favorite Alsatian food ❤❤❤
When I was a kid, my Dad used to go to Strasbourg pretty much every year for work. One year my mum and I accompanied him. I honestly don't know how old I was...maybe between 10 and 13. So that's forty odd years ago. I can still very easily bring to mind the delicious flavour and wonderful texture of tarte flambee. Never had it since then but it's a core memory. Someone else said in the comments that it's not anyone's version of pizza, it is its own thing - I totally agree. If you ever get the chance, you must try it!!
I spent four days in Strasbourg and somehow got invited to a local house party. I ended up helping in the kitchen and was taught how to make Flamenkuche. It was so delicious! Definitely a tasty alternative to Italian pizza.
we don't even call that "tarte flambé" in France, we call that Flamenkuche and I don't think it can be compared to pizza since we eat it during the aperitive or entry of our meal. Nonetheless it's exquisite but it's difficult to find a traditionnaly made one anywhere out of Alsace.
We call it 'une flamm' in Lorraine
I'm from strasbourg and call it tarte flambée
@@enricodragoni Surtout que l'aslsacien qui prépare la tarte flambée dit lui meme tarte flambée. Les commentaires sur internet c'est toujours plein de pseudo expert lol
@@amiralx88 pseudo expert de sa region. C'est probablement un parisien qui croit tout connaitre
@@alex_tahiti Il n'empêche que je suis d'accord, on l'appelle aussi flammeku(e)che où je suis. C'est pas en Alsace ni à Paris, mais on l'appelle quand même comme ça..
Thé French answer to pizza is not Flamenkuchen , it’s Pissaladière..😊
ill have to try these some day they look great
When he said better than a pizza, i bet italians were laughing at him😂
Not only Italians I believe
Looks better than some of the stuff being sold as “pizza” in the US.
@@opwave79 I can agree with that. It isn’t bad, I prefer a good pizza, but I prefer a Flammkucken to a bad pizza
@@opwave79 Pizza is Italian -American. Not Italian.
The arrogance of french... 😂
Looks awesome, I would try the mushroom Flambee. 😉
Wow crunchy😊🎉
The real French answer to pizza is Pissaladière from Nice.
Next week's headline: "Italy declares war on France"
That long?
I never thought of this dish as either french or german. Its that thing from the elsass region. And its tasty :)
Glad to see one of my favourite dish getting some international recognition ! Sadly tarte flambées outside of alsace are often doing a pretty bad publicity to this dish. It looks simple but it is far from easy to master (like any dish with few ingredients). Choosing the right cream so its acidity balances nicely with the bitterness of the crust. Chosing the right quantity and hydration of the ingredients so the dough is crunchy. Making sure that the top isn't too cooked either (the cream should be pretty raw). Chosing the right bacon that is smoked properly... You should have filmed this in a village, where the proper ones are made (Pfulgriesheim by example has my favourite restaurants). No offense to this restaurant but it's far from being a reference for this dish. No tarte flambée from strasbourg compares to the ones in the villages around it.
This looks magnificent! The charred parts remind me of New Haven style pizza in the U.S.. Same type of oven and fire. Gotta find some place to have this.
Well, besides the stupid comments of the presenter- the pizza looks bomb. I don't think I would call it a pizza though. Everything the French make is pretty much awesome so it's nice to see them have a version of something 'pizza-like' but with a decidedly French take on it, though Alsace isn't really French or German, kind of its own thing like a lot of parts of Europe that border each other.
It's indeed not a pizza, juste a Flammküche/tarte flambée :>. The comparison makes visual sense, but it has no historical or even culinary links to the pizza. You'll just find this concept of having flour and water with some toppings on top in virtually every cultures in the world, because it makes sense :>
The comments about the charring on the edges and the serving boards were incredibly shitty and unnecessary.
calling it french or saying it has a french take is really wrong, it's something alsatians would get mad at for sure
@@shinreilba Nah, we don't mind at all being called french. Because we are. Although it's always nicer calling it by the region, it could have been far worse. Like calling it german... Or ch'ti. F*ckin' 3 brasseurs in Canada you think I did not see you selling some of these and portraying them as typical from "northern" France?
@@marcbuisson2463 je suis d'alsace. la volonté de rattacher notre culture au monolithe français c'est une saleté et j'en ai marre.
For those who can't get out to Alsace all of the time, Trader Joe's has two that are absolutely wonderful.
The pizza oven is one of the best you can buy in the world and it´s from Acunto in Naples Italy
Why people need to compare things. Just enjoy the variety, its richeness
Tarte Flambe is Heaven!
Flammenkuchen, alte österreichische Speise.
with wine i go pizza , but with beer ... go flammekueche!
Yes Please !
Tres interescant
I guess it's just a cathy phrase so they put it that way, but being the "french answer to pizza" doesn't really make sense, because flammekeuche is way older than pizza (at least it has been the same way longer than the moder pizza came to be what it is today). But you could probably make the argument that the many kinds of flammekeuche are an answer to the various kinds of pizza that are around today
the ingredients are older, no tomatoes until 1500s
Looks yum, I always prefer thin crusts pizza
My absolute favourite food of all time with truffade and ramen
In what world is a wooden serving dish unsanitary?
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@@morrismonet3554 😂 they have knowledge on everything
Oh! I remember my first order of Tarte Flambee. I thought it was a desert, custardy something. I called the waiter for incomplete order, not knowing it was a flat bread with toppings. Quite embarassing moment 😅
I thought it was a pie served flambe
😍😍😍
is this declaration
Please DW, I'm in Strasbourg and Obernai, it's not "tarte flambée", it's Flammekueche. You are a german media, you know what the right word is.
The name of the dish varies in local dialects; it is called Flàmmeküeche, or Flàmmaküacha in Alsatian, or Flammkuche in Lorraine Franconian - compare (Standard) German Flammkuchen. What’s also funny about tarte flambé is that flammkuchen is actually cooked using a wood burning oven and not flambéed 😅
The chef in the report calls it Tarte Flambé… I think he knows what he’s talking about!
@@Samialessi 🙄 Not at all. Being "chief" doesn't mean u know everything...
@@Hylas67 “Chef” in English means cook, not chief. And he was obviously chosen by the reporter and restaurant to speak with knowledge on the subject
@@D-Z321that’s because “flammèe” just means flamed so in English it would be “flamed tart”
How about a ham and pineapple version😁
lecker flammkuchen 🤤
They look like large versions of the cheese manakish, but with more items in the toppings.
I am curious how it would taste with pineapple.
So french pizza basically. No disrespect to either country, just seems too simplified to compete with a whole other dish that's insanely beloved by many.
hmm, I always thought it was German. You learn something new everyday. Also its one of my fav style of pizza with a beer.
You calling it a pizza shows how successful pizza is 😂
To be honest, the border between France and Germany is a bit porous and the culture and food of Alsace is not so different from those of Bade-Wurtemberg. In Strasbourg all you have to do is to cross a bridge to find yourself in Kehl in Germany and a lot of people do it regularly (some things are cheaper in France, some in Germany and Strasbourg-Kehl is basically one binational city).
It is Alsatian, which is a region that is still majority German speaking to this day, despite the French government doing everything to change that.
@@MK-ev5rzJ'adore quand les américains se font experts .... Eh guignol, la langue que tu prends pour de l'allemand, c'est de l'alsacien justement, il est aussi stupide et inculte de confondre les deux que confondre le corse et l'italien 🤡
It´s from Alsace (which was German for a long time)/Pfalz/Baden so definitely more German than French or at best a German-French mix.
They have a version of the classic one at Trader Joe's, it's delicious but I'm sure the original is far superior.
I find it surprising coming from a German TV program not to call this by its real name: Flammenkueche in Alsacian. It wouldn’t surprise me from French people as the French government has always tried to destroy regional cultures (especially for the “Boches de l’Est”) but from DW…….shame!
What are you talking about ? Even the guy preparing it calls it "tarte flambée" we call it tarte flambée or Flammenkueche why trying to create a useless debate.
You can call it both ways, no one in Alsace itself argues about this at all
Mushrooms for the win!
I suppose its the other way around : pizza is tarte flambee with ingredients imported from America, Tomato.
I didn't know that pizza was question.
so still pizza ?
Team Tarte flambée
Pan pizza for me
Can we get a vegetarian version ?
yes. But who can eat a flatbread without toping in the region of sauerkraut and bacon? Someone who deserves it.
@luciamacakova7516 dietary restrictions make you do strange things
@@luciamacakova7516 flammekueche was traditionally eaten without lard in Catholic villages, since it was a Friday dish, so yeah a vegetarian version exist
yes without problem! nobody will arrest you if ask for mushroom instead of bacon ^^
That first pie was BURNT
I always thought the dough was made of puff pastry.
I'm astonished a German broadcaster doesn't call Strossburi by its original name, which is used by the majority of it's inhabitants.
Strossburi is used only by Alsatians in the Alsatian language. In German it’s Strassburg, in French (and English, the language of this video) it’s Strasbourg. The majority of its inhabitants don’t call it Strossburi, they call it Strasbourg. You don’t know what you are talking about, just acting as a clueless “internet expert” :)
Maybe because Germans speak German, not Alsation, and the video is in English.
@@Ihatepinkfloyd82they speak a German dialect in alsace unless they are french
@@thomasschumacher8748 But I do not expect German broadcasters to speak dialect. Do you?
Wood fired pies or bust.
pizza is more famous because its easy to pronounce..
And is better, Flammkuchen is something for women and minorities
I like how DW calls Alsatian food French.
Heat lots of heat very hot
One for 6!! People? Thing is thin as all get out. I could dome that myself in 10 minutes.
No haha 😁 its a shared meal, meaning it is bring and share on 6 parts on the table, ofc eat in 2 minutes, but several others come right next after until everyone are full 😁 becoming about 1 or 1,5 tarte by persons, total of 6 or 9 tartes etc
Through this way, the tarte is always eaten very warm by the group. Once a waiter puts on the table, if one is still hungry he directly order for the next one. At the end, all the wooden plates are accumulated on table and counted to know how much it costs.
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Its german not french
As a supertaster, don’t like whole onions or bacon, so pizza it is. Mushrooms are also disgusting and taste similar to crickets, to me anyways.
It’s not French and it’s not a answer. It was invented by the Alsacian bakers at the end of work shift in the morning back in the day.
It’s pizza with a different name
I guess, that really original version for people of Alsace region was decent thick focaccia-like bread with loads of traditional toppings. These pancakes with bacon for tourists who want to keep diet and eat bacon don't impress me much. In Slovakia we have something called podplamennik, thick savoury cake with bacon, sausages, cream, chease, onions etc. Dough yeasted with grated boiled potatoes.
alsace does not have focaccia bread no. and lardons have been traditional for it for over 600 years
Well you guessed wrong
It's not French.
Are saying that Alsace is not French?
Because it isnt @@maztasl3365
They said “known as German pizza” and it’s in modern day France and the people are speaking French. It’s kind of French kind of German.
Never has been @@maztasl3365
Yup, it's Alsation which was originally German.
Knowing the italians i was scared when this man said it was better than a pizza
He is not the best real life example to prove that isn’t burnt or unhealthy.
The burnt bits (acrylamide) would cause cancer, not overweight
It's miLLimètre not miNimètre
as an italian I feel offended.....
Alsatia is german.
American pizza will always be the best. Anybody who says otherwise is kidding themselves.
This is a VERY weak "answer" There is no comparison between His Majesty the Italian Pizza and the very very humble alsacian product.
Sometimes I'd much rather have a tarte flambée over a pizza. Just depends on my mood
Italian - American Pizza.
It’s not an “answer” to pizza really, and it is very very good in its own right
Spoken like an ignorant American who’s never had tarte flambée..
The presentation makes no sense… Flammekueche is much older than pizza, traditionally it doesn't have the same kind of toppings at all and isn't the same kind of dish, much lighter, one slice is more of a snack by itself, only becoming a dish once you eat enough of them. This is a clickbait title, surfing on the relative current popularity of small restaurant offering a large variety of tartes flambées to suggest an opposition that doesn't really exists between two dishes that are only superficially similar and have nothing to do with each other historically. I'll add that I really don't understand the anglo-saxon tendency to fetishize certain kind of dishes and proclaim they're inherently "the best" (or "His majesty the Italian Pizza") : the appreciation of a food depends much more on the skill of the cook, the ingredients he has, and the mood and taste of the dinner than on the specific category of dish one is making.
Pleasing amounts of meat going on there.
This is a flatbread not a pizza, and sorry France, pizza is the realm of Italy and (parts of) of the USA. France makes amazing food, but they are out of their league here...
Not pizza and not French.
This may not be a "pizza" but Alsace to is both politically and culturally part of France now. I do Not See why you would say otherwise.
It's quite known that the first pizzaiolo in Napoli was the son of an Alsacian. Pizza is French, sorry folks.
Italians and their cuisine have been worshiped due to eurocentric views on culture and food in the US. Their food isn't profound. It isn't even that steeped in history as we like to imagine. Italian food elitism, in all honesty, is a slight form of prejudice that is perpetuated by Italians and Italian Americans who like to image they hold some secret to delicious food that no one else can achieve.
Leave it to some american commentator to complain about the hygiene of wooden boards and the burnt edges resulting from a wood fired oven...
Wood repells bacteria-why not wood? Wood cutting boards, etc. What's wrong with the narrator/scrip writer? Eats food out of plastic🤣? of course if you ripped some bark off tree in the forest, and ate off of it ..
The antibacterial properties of some woods aren't strong enough to make a meaningful difference. Unless it's polished and has a finish on it, food scraps can work their way into the grain and host bacteria. But this is a well known restaurant, I'm sure they sanitize the boards regularly
Pizza originated from USA by Italian migrants, not from Italy
lol, pizza comes from Naples
Italian cuisine >>> French
Fwench cuisine is just fancy sauces + anything that moves in the pond
American cuisine >>> Italian and French cuisine combined
@@wendigo6782 no.
French > All (except, MAYBE, japanese)
French cuisine >>> Italian 😇
Why can't they speak English like normal people?
Normal people speak anything BUT english. Just look at the average level of ignorance of people who have english as their only language. Most of them can't even point at their own country on a world map or know the difference between a verb and a noun. There are billions of hours of footage of this phenomenon just here on YT. I swear the average IQ of english-only speakers has less digits than the one of normally-constituted huimans
It's better that way, trust me bro.😂
Let me guess, you're american
@LesFrenchiesTravel