Vegan autumnal recipe: upjers’ pumpkin tarte flambée

Quick, healthy, and delicious: pumpkin tarte flambée is the perfect – vegan – autumn recipe.

After Halloween, pumpkins are no longer needed for decoration purposes and are therefore perfect preparation great food.

Premade tarte flambée dough is usually vegan anyway and crème fraîche as well as feta are available as vegan versions in almost all supermarkets. As tarte flambée is traditionally not very generously topped, half a Hokkaido pumpkin is enough.

List of ingredients for pumpkin tarte flambée

• Premade tarte flambée dough (one roll per baking tray)
• ½ Hokkaido pumpkin
• ½ vegan feta
• 1 cup vegan crème fraîche
• a handful of walnuts (without nutshell)
• Oil for fraying (if possible Alba oil)
• 1 tablespoonful of maple syrup
• dried sage or thymine

Preparation

It is said that you don’t actually have to peel Hokkaido. However, its skin usually remains hard for much longer and in this recipe the pumpkin is not cooked for long. Therefore, please remove the pumpkin skin and cut the pumpkin flesh into cubes.

For the ultimate roasted flavors, fry the pumpkin cubes in a pan with Alba oil. This oil has a buttery taste and is particularly suitable. However, normal rapeseed oil is also suitable. Add a teaspoonful of dried sage and/or thyme and a tablespoonful of maple syrup.

Cut the vegan feta into cubes.

Pumpkin tarte flambée topping

While the pumpkin cubes are cooling, you can roll out the dough and preheat your oven. If your oven has a pizza setting, then this is the perfect setting. Alternatively, you can also select top and bottom heat and set 200°C.

Spread the vegan crème fraîche on the dough, spread the feta and pumpkin cubes loosely all over and place the chopped walnut halves in the gaps.
By now, your oven should be preheated and you can bake the tarte flambée for 6 to 8 minutes on the middle shelf.

The individual baking time depends on your oven and your preference for tarte flambée. Some like it very crispy, some only slightly browned.

Recipe Variants

You’ve probably noticed that the upjers pumpkin tarte flambée recipe doesn’t contain any onions. If you really want to add onions, just add them. You may have to leave out a few cubes of pumpkin. In the end, the tarte flambée should not be too generously topped, otherwise it will lose its typical taste and be more reminiscent of an American pizza (even if it has many fans, of course).

Of course, the vegan feta and vegan crème fraîche can also be replaced with the original dairy products. The pumpkin tarte flambée is then still vegetarian.

Check out our cozy upjers ideas for the Pre-Christmas season, too:

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