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Peach galette

Using my galette tips, this one is easy

Course Dessert
Cuisine American, French
Keyword galette, peach
Prep Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Resting time 5 hours
Total Time 7 hours
Servings 8 servings
Author Laura

Ingredients

Dough - any sturdy and delicious pie-type dough

Filling:

  • 2 tablespoon granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon dark brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1/2 teaspoon cardamom
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups sliced peaches (about 1/2-inch thick slices), not too ripe (should hold their shape) About 500 g or 1 lb
  • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 1 pinch kosher salt

For baking:

  • 1 egg, separated
  • 1-2 teaspoons water To be mixed with yolk and any leftover white for egg wash.
  • 1-2 tablespoons sparkling and/or turbinado sugar
  • 1/2 tablespoon butter

Instructions

Galette dough

  1. Make dough. Let it rest, tightly wrapped in plastic and refrigerated, for a few hours or overnight.

Filling

  1. Mix the sugars, cardamom, and cornstarch in a small bowl. Set aside.

  2. Add the vanilla extract, lemon juice, and pinch of salt to the peach slices. (I'm a bit OCD about measuring how wide my peach slices are. You don't have to be so exact. As long as they are thick enough to withstand gentle mixing and not so thick as to be chunky, you'll be fine.) Mix until combined.

  3. Add the sugar mixture to the peach slices and gently combine until the slices are well coated. Set aside while you prepare the galette dough.

Making the galette

  1. On a parchment sheet roll the dough into a circle with a diameter approximately 12-inches/30 cm. Move the parchment onto a large (1/2 sheet pan) cookie sheet and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

  2. After the 30 minutes, take the dough out of the refrigerator. Drain any excess juice from the peach slices. Paint a 10-inch/25 cm circle on the dough with egg white. Place the peach slices in a pretty pattern, starting at the center and working to the outside of that 10-inch/25 cm circle, leaving a 2-inch/5 cm border for pleating.

  3. Make pleats with the border, on top of the outside of the circle of peaches.

  4. Paint the pleats with egg wash (the yolk, plus any leftover white, plus 1 -2 teaspoons of water), then dust the pleats with the sparkling and/or turnbinado sugar. Refrigerate or freeze the galette for 30 minutes to 1 hour.

  5. Preheat oven to 400° F/200° C. Remove galette from refrigerator/freezer and bake for 35-45 minutes or until the juices still in the galette are bubbling and the crust is golden brown. (If the crust browns too easily, cover the pleats with aluminum foil, leaving open the center of the galette. Once the galette is done, remove it from the oven, dot the peaches with tiny pieces of butter and let it cool before slicing.

Recipe Notes

Extra sparkling/turbinado sugar on the parchment as the galette bakes? I know it turns black on the parchment, but don't worry. You can simply break off those burnt edges of the galette and the final pastry will be pretty as a picture, with no telltale burnt sugar around the edges.