Meaning

A French savoury tart made with leeks and cream..

Example Sentences

North of Paris, in villages around the cities of Amiens and Lille, traditional favorites include the tarte au Maroilles, a rich, briochelike dough topped with a pungent local cow's milk cheese, and flamiche, a dense, full-flavored vegetable tart filled with a blend of leeks, cheese, eggs and ham.

I start with a delicious, fluffy flamiche, a round tart of goat cheese and leeks from northern France.

Leeks are sometimes sautéed in dark, abbey-style beers, especially as an ingredient in the flamiche. This is a rich, cheesy, counterpart to the quiche of Lorraine, south across the border in France. The finest of flamiches is cooked over a wood fire. A flamiche festival is held in early September in the town of Dinant, near Namur, on the river Meuse, but this lovely town is worth visiting at any time of year.

Everyone becomes addicted to my tomato flamiche, my far breton made with figs and also my Croatian pepper biscuits.

Word Forms

• flamiches

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