Ham, cheese and olive savory loaf is a fast rustic ultra-soft bread/loaf, a fantastic traditional of French dwelling cooking. Good for fast lunches, picnics, barbecues, and even cubed as an appetizer.
What’s a French “cake sale”?
In France, we use the phrase cake for any candy or savory preparation baked in a loaf mould. We put together all types of “cake salés” (lit. savory cake) together with this one which has a really traditional filling: ham, cheese, and black or inexperienced olives.
But additionally as for quiches, we put together cake salés with all sort of savory substances, those we like or these we’ve on arms, even leftover sautéed greens for instance.
On this weblog you’ll find 3 different cake sale recipes: with roasted bell pepper (I fry beforehand with olive oil. olive, garlic, onion, and Provence herbs, all of the flavors of South-France), one other with tuna and sundried tomatoes, and one with zucchini and feta cheese.
How you can serve savory loaf
These savory loaves, aka desserts salés, are excellent for a light-weight lunch, eaten with inexperienced salad and French dressing dressing, or all sort of uncooked greens that we name assiette de crudités in French.
They’re additionally usually ready for picnics. And as you recognize our love for pre-dinner drink l’apéritif, dice cake leftovers to seize with a drink. In case you particularly put together a savory loaf for l’apéro, wait till it’s chilly ti dice in any other case it is perhaps troublesome to chop good cubes.
By the best way I’ve written an article on all you’ll want to know to organize l’apéro as in France with many recipes you’ll be able to simply make.
A number of phrases on the recipe
I’m giving the substances proportions for this recipe, made again and again dozens of occasions, every time very gentle and aerated as you’ll be able to see within the images.
First put together the batter
I don’t use an excessive amount of flour and (a little bit of a baking powder) in order that the bread isn’t too heavy, a mixture of olive oil and milk (which you’ll change with plant-based milk).
I discover that dairy makes the cake a lot lighter and softer than the white wine that’s discovered in lots of French recipes (however you’ll be able to all the time substitute right here if you want, with the identical quantity of ml).
3 eggs and are sufficient.
Then the filling
I often ask my butcher to chop me a really thick slice of Jambon de Paris ham that I reduce into giant cubes (which I want to the cubes of ham we discover in French grocery store, that I discover slightly small, however when I’ve solely that, that works simply as effectively).
For cheese I prefer to grated Comté cheese (which I want to Emmental or Gruyère, a private style however which does not likely change the results of the recipe).
Lastly for olives, your selection: inexperienced olives, black olives, or a mixture of each. At the moment it was inexperienced olives.
Ham, Cheese and Olive Savory Loaf, French Cake Salé
A fast rustic ultra-soft bread/loaf, a fantastic traditional of French dwelling cooking. Good for fast lunches, picnics, barbecues, and even cubed as an appetizer.
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Bon appétit !
And identical for candy preparations, the particular phrase cake utilized in French implies that the cake has been baked in a loaf tin.
The most typical recipes are cake marbré Marble vanilla and chocolate cake (I’ve a recipe however not of the right form, disgrace on me!! See right here), cake au citron/lemon (see my recipe right here, a must-try), and cake aux fruits confits (I’ll publish the recipe quickly).
