No, your eyes are not deceiving you! This sure looks like pizza and it’s also most definitely French. Have you ever had it?
Pissaladière hails from Provence, a region that borders Italy and shares many of the same ingredients and flavors. The toppings for this French pizza are usually caramelized onions, anchovies, and black niçoise olives. Sometimes a little grated Parmesan or Gruyere cheese brings all the rich flavors together.
The crust is really the distinguishing feature of a pissaladière. Unlike the crunchy, bread-like crust on Italian pizzas, this is closer to a tart crust. A generous amount of butter gets worked into the dough, which may or may not include yeast for leavening. It’s usually thicker and chewier than a pie crust - a cross between puff pastry and Chicago deep-dish pizza, if you can imagine that!
If you’ve never had pissaladière before, it’s a dish that’s definitely worth trying. It makes a fantastic light dinner on its own, especially with a tossed salad along side. We also like cutting it into small squares and serving it as an appetizer.
Take a look at these recipes:
• Classic Pissaladière from Epicurious
• Pissaladière with Tomatoes from Martha Stewart
• Caramelized Onion and Fresh Anchovy Puff Pastry Tart from La Tartine Gourmande
• Vegetarian Pissaladière from BBC Food
Related: Change It Up! 6 Alternatives to Tomato Sauce on Pizza
(Image: Martha Stewart)
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I went on a student trip to Europe in high school, and our first meal in Paris was pissaladière. As with many of our meals during that trip, the trays just kept coming (which I chalked up to either the food budget being too high, or stereotypes of American over-eating prevailing). They were less traditional (again, to feed a bunch of American teenagers), but so delicious. Lucky for me, not too many of my fellow travelers liked mushrooms, so I didn't have to fight for those delicious slices.
Tarte flambee or flammekueche is kind of close to pizza too, except it's from a region that went back and forth between France and Germany (Alsace).
Mmm, flammekueche is delicious. It's very thin pizza with a topping of onions and bacon and creme freiche and garlic..... So good!