Zwiebelkuchen, which literally means onion cake in the German language, is either a one-crust pie made of steamed onions, diced bacon, cream, and caraway seed on a yeast dough or a leavened dough that is particularly popular in the German winegrowing regions
Vegans have more fun with animal-free bacon & eggs! Here’s a recipie from Tomas, served at People’s kitchen on Feb 25th, 2012 together with Becky’s borschtsch (Beetroot Soup) and served with mixed salads including foraged leaves – the first wild food of the year!
Zwiebelkuchen – Onion cake
recipe for 4-6 people
For the base: make a yeasty dough with
- 500g flour (strong white is best)
- 5g/ 1 sachet dry yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- Mix them up and add 300ml water
Mix and knead until the dough has an earlobe like fell to it.
Leave in a warm place to double in volume
Meanwhile, chop
- 2-3 onions
- 12-15 mushrooms (thin slices)
- add spinach (or nettles) and parsley if you like
Then make a white sauce:
- fry some whit eflour in oil,
- add milk of your choice
- add mustard and caraway seed,
- mix with the chopped ingredients
When ready, pre-heat the oven to gas mark 5k
Knock down the dough and spread it on a baking tray
Add the topping mix
Bake the lot for 25-30 minutes, or until it smells delicious.
For more people, just do the maths
Tomas xx