DISH RESEARCH · Dessert
Tourte de Blettes
Also known as: Tourta de blea
Sweet chard-and-apple pie with rum-soaked raisins, pine nuts and hard cheese.
About Tourte de Blettes
Tourte de blettes is a sweet chard pie associated with Nice. The Cuisine Nissarde committee's recipe encloses green chard leaves, reinette apples, two kinds of raisins, pine nuts and Sbrinz cheese in pastry.
Brown sugar and fruit sweeten the filling, while cheese gives a savoury edge. Anise, rum and grape marc brandy supply aromatic notes; ground almonds are an optional addition.
Golden pastry surrounds a moist filling with fruit pieces and nutty crunch. Fine sugar and icing sugar finish the surface, and the pie is served at room temperature.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Egg, Pine nuts.
Optional additions: Almond.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Tourte de Blettes
Cuisine Nissarde committee's Niçoise sweet tourte de blettes.
- FlourBaseIngredient page not linked
- ButterCooking medium · Pastry
- SugarSweetener · Pastry; finish
- Icing sugarFinish · Decoration
- EggBinder · Pastry; filling
- SaltSeasoning · Pastry
- Olive oilCooking medium · Pastry; filling
- Green chard leavesBase · Filling
- Grated Sbrinz cheeseSeasoning · Filling
- Reinette applesBase · Filling
- Pine nutsBase · Filling
- Brown raisinsBase · Filling
- Golden raisinsBase · Filling
- RumLiquid · Raisin soaking
- Grape marc brandySeasoning · Filling
- Brown sugarSweetener · Filling
- AniseAromatic · Filling
- WaterCooking medium · Chard washing; pastry
- Ground almondsFilling · Optional filling variant · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Generic farine; cereal and precise flour formula unprovided. Dough and literal floured work-surface dusting retained.
- Butter: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Unqualified pastry sugar and literal final fine-granulated sugar dusting retained; the finishing form is explicit, dough grain size unprovided.
- Icing sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Whole eggs are shared across both required components.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green chard leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Only green leaves used; stalks excluded by actual method.
- Grated Sbrinz cheese: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. First Sbrinz option selected rather than Parmesan; broader hard-cheese candidate, exact product formula unprovided.
- Reinette apples: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader apple candidate; named reinette cultivar family retained.
- Pine nuts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Pine nuts source-confirmed
- Brown raisins: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader raisin candidate; brown dried form retained. Both raisin types are soaked in rum then drained.
- Golden raisins: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Distinct blond/golden dried raisin form retained; soaked in rum then drained.
- Rum: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal food-contact soaking liquid; raisins are drained before filling.
- Grape marc brandy: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader brandy candidate; source marc/branda identity retained, exact product formula unprovided.
- Brown sugar: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. First cassonade choice retained instead of filling sucre semoule. Separate final fine sugar finish remains represented.
- Anise: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Source anis; exact processing form unprovided, no star-anise substitute.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal cold-water chard washing retained; same input also covers conditional dough drops and wetting pastry edges.
- Ground almonds (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Almond source-confirmed. Explicit optional ground-almond addition to the filling, not the pastry.
Origins & food traditions
A traditional sweet pie of Nice, in the official recipe established by the Cuisine Nissarde technical committee.
Countries
- France
- MonacoCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Niçoise Cuisine
- Monegasque CuisineCatalogue link pending review