Rustic Peach Galette- Three Ways

What?  Three ways what do you mean?  I mean we have one fruit filling, one dough and we get have fun.  This recipe is here to get you to play with your food, to open up your creative juices in the kitchen.  I know what your parents thought you but at times playing with your food can be so much fun and so rewarding.  The dough is super easy and you can mix it with any fruit or nut you have laying around your house.  No that does not include your husband, boyfriend or brother however nutty he may be.

What is a Galette anyway?  Galette is like a tart, a little bit more savory, that is free form, no special equipment needed.  All you need is your hands.  I guess you would not need a knife either if you can just rip your fruit apart, but I am not that skilled, plus I wanted them to look kinda good.

For the crust you will need: 1 1/4 cup flour (all purpose), 2 tbs sugar (I used brown), 1/4 tsp salt, 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter chilled, 3 to 4 tbs ice cold water

For the filling: 4-5 large peaches, 1 tbs lemon juice, 1 tbs corn starch, 1/4 cup light brown sugar, 1/4 tsp salt, ground almonds

For variations: Other fruit, varieties of chocolates, nuts, heath candy pieces

To make the dough mix together 1 1/4 cup flour, 2 tbs sugar, 1/4 tsp salt until combined

cut in the chilled butter and place in a mixer with paddle attachment.

mix together until it resembles course meal, or in this case it looked a lot like bread crumbs

add cold water one tablespoon at a time until the mixture comes to form a dough

for me it took only 3 tbs and I was good

form into a ball and chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour.  You do not need to wrap it if your fridge is empty mine is full to the brim (partially since kids milk takes 1/3 of it) so stuff spills all the time.

This is the perfect dough for the summer.  Since you can keep it refrigerated until ready to use with fruit you find most charming at a store or farmers market.

When an hour passes preheat the oven to 400 deg  peel the peaches and slice them,

add sugar and lemon juice

Toss with corn starch

In my case I also needed to grind the almond so I gave them a ride on the Cuisinart

You can make a one big galette that will serve 8-12 people depending who you are and how much you eat, or smaller 1-2 people galettes.  The 1/4 size ones are still kinda large, the size of a small individual pizza.

I made them small and I made them all slightly different.  I rolled out the first 1/4th

and sprinkled it with almonds.  If you do not like almonds you can use whatever fruit is your favorite or you can change it depending on fruit pairings.  The nut layer allows the juices to stay with the fruit and not seep into the dough.

Top with your fruit mixture (include some juices), sprinkle with sugar and bake

Or you can find some great toffee bits

mix them with the nuts

make sure to keep the fruit in the middle so you have enough dough to create a side barrier

that will keep all the fruit and juices in

top it with some extra toffee bits

you can do a chocolate version by adding dark, white or milk chocolate

or just mixing all fruit that you have available at your house

bake the tart until golden and the fruit juice is bubbly

you can see a thin layer of nuts between the crust and fruit

Now I was planning to do a taste test but it was tough since they were disappearing faster then I could make them or faster then they could actually cool off to taste them.