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Tarte à l'oignon de Givet
The onion pie of GIVET
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You'll find here the recipe of the real onion pie of GIVET, after that a typical menu of the Ardennes.


THE ONION PIE OF GIVET

Recipe for 6 persons
Preperation time : 25 mn
Cooking : about 35 mn.
300 g
of short pastry
butter
700 g
of wellow onions
60 g
of lard
flour
15 cl
of fresh cream
12 cl
of milk
3
big eggs
nutmecy
salt and white pepper to the mill

- 1. Display the short pastry on the worktop floured to obtain a thickness of 4 or 5 mm. Provide a flan case buttered, diameter 25 cm approximately and sting the bottom with a fork. Keep rest in a cool place. Peel the onions (snif, snif ...) and slice them thinly.

- 2. Melt the lard in a caserole and add the onions little by little. Then cook them on moderate fire moving them continuously during twenty minutes. Add a bulging soup spoon with flour, mix immediately and cook 2 or 3 minutes.

- 3. Add the fresh cream and the milk. Mix and continue the cooking during 5 minutes approximately until obtaining a well thicken and thick mixture. Take out the casserole of the fire. Break the eggs into a big bowl, salt, pepper and "nutmecying". Beat them in omelet, then incorporate this preparation to the onions puree

- 4. Pour this preparation on the bottom pie and smooth with the back of a spatula. Cook in the oven at 220°C, 20 to 25 minutes. Serve hot or tepid.

You can furnish the over of the pie with thin slats of ham of the Ardennes just serve it.

Recommended drink : WHITE COTEAUX CHAMPENOIS.




ARDENNES MENU

Potatoes stew of the Ardennes

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The Givet's onion pie

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Bacon salad

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Ripened cheese of Rocroi

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Butter and sugar pie


Good appetite ! ...

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