I used the savory crust from my butternut squash galette omitting the sage and adding 1/4 cup of sugar to the dough. This makes a beautiful rich crust that’s so easy to roll out, no cracking or splitting.
If you don’t have a food processor or you’d rather than get it out and wash all of the pieces when you’re finished, you can blend your dry ingredients and butter for the crust with a pastry blender or two butter knives as shown on this video.
Smacznego!
Lois
PrintApple Galette
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: French
Description
A rustic apple tart
Ingredients
For the pastry:
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 4 to 8 tablespoons cold water
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon canola oil
For the filling:
- 1/4 cup apricot preserves
- 4 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
Instructions
- To make the dough, pulse the flour, sugar, butter, and salt in a food processor until it has the texture of a coarse meal.
- While pulsing, slowly add ice water, using just enough for the dough to form a ball. Don’t overwork it.
- Shape the dough into a 5 inch disk, wrap in plastic, and chill at least one hour.
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Roll the crust into a 14 inch circle; no need to make it perfect.
- Warm the apricot preserves, and spread in the center of the crust. I marked a 9 inch circle in the center of the crust by lightly pressing a cake pan into the dough.
- Combine the remaining ingredients and arrange the apple slices in a 9 inch circle on top of the apricot preserves.
- Fold up the edges of the dough. Brush the crust with beaten egg and oil (from the crust recipe).
- Bake for 35 – 40 minutes.
An accountant by trade and a food blogger since 2009, Lois Britton fell in love with Polish cuisine during the years she lived in Poznań, Poland. As the creator of PolishHousewife.com, she loves connecting readers with traditional Polish recipes. Lois has a graduate certificate in Food Writing and Photography from the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Polish Housewife Cookbook, available on Amazon and on her website.
Sarah-Lyn
It’s like a lovely warm blanket around those apples – looks delicious 🙂
SL
lovelygreenlifestyle.ca
Vicki
Oh yum!!!
Laura [Novelbite]
This looks good! Think I’m going to try something like this soon. I’ve never made a pie, so a gallette seems like it might be a good way to “easy into” the crust process…
Laura [Novelbite]
Errr… “galette.” Note to self: learn how to spell.