Dinner · 40 min · Amounts not specified
Pissaladière
Niçoise onion tart. Onions until they are jam, anchovy and olive on top, thyme. Not a pizza. The onion is the topping.
The sheet · 6 slices · 40 min
easyWhy tonight. Niçoise onion tart. Onions until they are jam, anchovy and olive on top, thyme. Not a pizza. The onion is the topping.
What it needs
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- dough
- onion
- anchovies
- olives
- thyme
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: olive oil.
Method
- The onions want an hour, on low, until they are jammy and sweet. That slow cook is the whole dish.
- No color on them if you can help it — they should be pale gold and collapsed rather than browned.
- Cook off any liquid before they go on the dough, or the base will not crisp.
- Anchovies and olives arranged on top rather than mixed in, and thyme before it goes in the oven.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
- VinaigretteDispersing fat into acid so it stays dispersed for as long as dinner takes, which is all it has to do.separates immediately · greasy · too sharp · dull
- Bread doughDeveloping gluten and letting fermentation do the flavor, which is mostly a matter of time rather than effort.dense · flat · gummy inside · tore during shaping · over-proofed
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- Bread and doughHow to knead bread doughKing Arthur Baking CompanyHand kneading, and how to tell when the gluten is developed rather than guessing at minutes.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Knife skillsHow To Dice OnionsAmerica's Test KitchenWalks through the claw grip and the two cuts that turn a whole onion into an even dice.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- dough
- Time is the ingredient. A slow cold rise builds flavor that no amount of yeast will fake, and most dough that tastes of nothing was simply rushed.
- onion
- The base under most of this library.
- anchovies
- They dissolve. Melted into hot oil at the start nothing tastes of fish — it tastes of depth, and the people who say they hate anchovies have almost always only met them whole on a pizza.
- olives
- Salt, bitterness and fat in one small package.
- thyme
- The most patient herb here — it survives long cooking, which almost nothing green does.
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