Plum Galette from Cooking Light
This recipe is from the June 2005 issue of Cooking Light. It also appears in two of their books -- Cooking Light Dessert (ISBN: 0-8487-3066-6), page 86; and Five Star Recipes. (ISBN: 978-0-8487-3242-4), page 392It was a hit!! I will definitely be making this again - perhaps with peaches or apples. Or even combining other fruits together.
I am getting more confident making crust from scratch, especially with the food processor -- easy-peasy!
A galette is a rustic, free-form crust/tart. We bought plums from Costco, and while you can't beat the price, two people can only eat so many plums per day. When they started to soften, I decided to turn them into this. Bonus is the jam leftovers. The jam will keep up to a few weeks in the refrigerator. And boy, did it taste good on some toasted slices of Central Market's Seedsation bread for Halloween breakfast!
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Fair warning, it is a bit time-scheduling intensive, if you are making the jam and starting from scratch. You may want to make the jam ahead of time. Then make the crust and allow time for chilling.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 1/2 tablespoons chilled butter, cut into small pieces
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons ice water
1 tablespoon cornmeal - I skipped this
4 medium plums, each cut into 8 wedges
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/4 cup Plum Jam*
1 tablespoon Plum Jam*
1 tablespoon sugar
*Plum Jam --
4 1/2 cups chopped ripe red plums (about 8 medium)
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
Dough --
Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour, butter, and salt in a food processor; process until mixture resembles coarse meal. With processor on, slowly add ice water through food chute, processing just until combined (do not form a ball). Press mixture gently into a 4-inch circle on plastic wrap. Cover and chill 30 minutes.
Jam --
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Preheat oven to 425°.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; sprinkle paper with cornmeal (I skipped the cornmeal part). Unwrap dough; roll dough into a 9-inch circle on a lightly floured surface. (I rolled between two sheets of plastic wrap.)
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| Apprehensive moment ahead, will it peel away nicely in one piece? (It did!) |
Place dough on baking sheet on top of parchment paper. Combine plums and cornstarch in a large bowl, tossing to coat. Add 1/4 cup Plum Jam; toss well to coat. Arrange plum mixture on top of dough, leaving a 1 1/2-inch border.
Fold edges of dough over plum mixture. Bake at 425º for 20 minutes.
Remove galette from oven (do not turn oven off). Brush crust with 1 tablespoon Plum Jam; sprinkle galette with sugar. Bake at 425º for 20 minutes or until crust is golden brown. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes before serving. 6 servings
Note: Nutritional analysis includes Plum Jam.
Calories: 208
Calories from fat: 32%
Fat: 7.3g
Saturated fat: 3.4g
Monounsaturated fat: 2.8g
Polyunsaturated fat: 0.3g
Protein: 2.8g
Carbohydrate: 33.8g
Fiber: 1.6g
Cholesterol: 18mg
Iron: 1mg
Sodium: 146mg
Calcium: 5mg
This does not factor in topping with a scoop of Bluebell Homemade Vanilla ice cream while it is still warm...
i call them rustic pies. My recipe is from Kraft and they used plums. About to make it with peaches and raspberries. To me a Galette is more correctly called a Breton Galette is a crepe that is filled with goodies.
ReplyDeleteI buy the pastry. This last week a bummer I used Arthur white whole wheat flour for my Yorkshire pudding, stodgy, then tried pizza( in Cuisinart0; it rose but flattened when rolled out and was too thin and bread like; Next made brownies using KA recipe for this specific flour. It is weighty but with ice cream OK. Not sure I want to make pastry with this flour.