Desserts

Danish Leek Cake

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time 30 mins
Total Time 30 mins
Course Baking
Cuisine European
Servings (Default: 2)

Ingredients

  • 200 g flour (whole rain)
  • 150 g quark
  • 100 g butter
  • 0.5 teaspoon ½ salt
  • 2 tablespoon breadcrumbs
  • some ketchup
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 0.5 ½ vegetable stock cube
  • 300 g leeks
  • 30 g butter
  • 0.5 teaspoon ½ curry powder
  • 0.5 teaspoon ½ paprika
  • 2 tablespoon herbs (parsley, marjoram, dill)
  • 130 g cheese, rated
  • 2 egg (s)
  • 100 g sour cream
  • 2 tablespoon wine, white
  • 0.5 teaspoon ½ cornstarch
  • 0.5 teaspoon ½ salt
Danish Leek Cake
Danish Leek Cake

Instructions

  1. Knead a smooth dough from the flour, quark, butter and salt and let it rest for 30 minutes. Roll out and line a greased springform pan (23 cm) with it, pull up the 2 cm edge. Spread some ketchup on top and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
  2. Heat the oil, water and vegetable stock. Clean the leek, cut into strips, simmer in the stock until halfway through. Mix the butter, spices and herbs into the leek. Spread the leek mixture on the dough base and sprinkle with the grated cheese. Whisk eggs, sour cream, white wine, cornstarch and salt, pour over the cheese.
  3. Bake the leek tart in the preheated oven on the lower bar at 200 ° for about 40 minutes.
  4. Sufficient as a starter for 4 people.
Editorial Staff

About Editorial Staff

The Boss Kitchen editorial staff oversees content review, fact-checking, and recipe verification across the site. Published articles pass through the editorial team before going live, ensuring ingredient lists, techniques, cooking times, and nutritional claims hold up in a home kitchen. The team coordinates contributions across the site writers, handles reader corrections, and maintains consistency in measurement conventions, safety guidance, and dietary labeling. Posts under this byline typically represent team-reviewed reference material, site announcements, or editorial roundups rather than individual-author features, and they are held to the same sourcing standards as bylined recipe and product coverage.

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