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Fougasse Monégasque

Name: Fougasse Monégasque
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Monaco
Ingredients: 300g Bread flour; 5g Dry yeast; 50g Sugar; A pinch Salt; 3 tbsp Olive oil; 2 tbsp Orange flower water; 150ml Water; 40g Almonds; 1 tsp Anise seed; 2 tbsp Granulated sugar

Dessert

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Orange-blossom-scented flatbread topped with almonds and red and white anise sugar — Monaco's sweet bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Fougasse monégasque, unlike the savory fougasse of southern France, is a sweet flatbread scented with orange blossom water and scattered with almonds and anise sugar sweets. Tradition calls for the anise sugar in red and white, the colors of Monaco's flag, and it's eaten for National Day in November.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Monaco's National Day, sweet flatbreads studded with red and white sprinkles fill bakery cases as flags flutter across town.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 300g
Dry yeast 5g
Sugar 50g
Salt A pinch
Olive oil 3 tbsp
Orange flower water 2 tbsp
Water 150ml
Almonds 40g
Anise seed 1 tsp
Granulated sugar 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, olive oil, orange blossom water, and lukewarm water and let rise 1 hour.
Roll into a flat oval, cut leaf-vein slits, and stretch them open.
Rest 30 minutes and brush the top with olive oil.
Scatter with chopped almonds and sugar and bake at 200°C for 15 minutes.
Scatter with anise seed when done.

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