I love pizza. Not the nasty traditional kind that you get in your local pizza take-away which if you go for the thick crust resembles cheese on toast. Bad cheese on toast. No, I love pizza by real Italians - thin, crispy and sprinkled with toppings - full of flavour but unfortunately, full of fat. Yes, pizza isn’t a diet food - and as much as I appreciate the attempt by weight-watchers, it just isn’t right.
But - woo hoo - I’ve found an alternative - tarte flambee (which for all those in the UK, is currently in the freezer section at Lidl). It is essentially pizza from Alsace (which is one of the regions of France - close to Germany) which is bread dough rolled out very very thin.
It is then covered by crème fraiche, onions and lardons. It can also be decorated with gruyere, mushrooms, munster cheese and it even comes sweet with calvados. It is baked in the oven - similar to pizza - but is so thin that while it gives you the pizza hit, it has far fewer calories.
The edges are slightly crunchy (almost like phylo pastry) and the centre is slightly soft but not sloppy at all. OMG, it really is so very good and I’ve found a pusher in London at the
The Delaunay near Aldwych.
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