Corsican-Style Pizza Flamiche

Preparation info
  • Makes

    One

    12 by 17 Inch Pizza
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Mediterranean Small Plates

By Clifford A. Wright

Published 2023

  • About

A flamiche is usually a kind of leek tart made in northern France, Burgundy, and Picardy, but when I had it in Corsica, it was an incredibly delicious sweet onion and smoked bacon pizza with lots of local cheese, a little red chile, bay leaf, and olive oil. Corsican pizzas are very good. They are a little thicker than Italian pizzas, but not by much. The toppings go right to the edge, so there is hardly a visible crust to speak of. The real difference comes with the richer tastes derived fr