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| 4 sorts of plums go into this galette. The small inexperienced Claudias, though not fairly ripe, had essentially the most complicated flavor–sweet, tart, and floral. The massive darkish purple plums (a vendor at my native market known as them huevo de toro, “bull’s balls”) had been juicy and candy. The massive yellows had been juicy however missing in taste. The smaller pink plums with yellow-green flesh had been, to my style, the most effective with tangy pores and skin and candy flesh. |
Seduced by the jewel-like colours, I couldn’t resist shopping for a bagful of plums. I supposed to stage a taste-test to resolve which selection I preferred finest. However as an alternative I mixed all of them, from the tiny inexperienced Claudias to the large pink plums in a galette pastry crust.
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| Galette is a free-form pie. This one full of plums has a crust spiced with aniseeds. |
Galette is a French phrase for a freeform pie, a country tart through which the fruit is heaped within the middle of a spherical of pastry dough which is then folded up over the fruit. You can also make a galette with any favourite pie crust dough, with buttery pâte brisée, or storebought pasta quebrada.
My model, made with an olive oil dough, is impressed by these beloved tortas de aceite, crisp olive oil “cookies,” with their delicate flavors of aniseed and sesame.** (Just a few weeks in the past I used the tortas as a base for a quickie dessert—fruit heaped on prime of the tortas, topped with whipped cream, and drizzled with caramel sauce.) This pie crust is tremendous quick to combine up, but it surely does want time to relax earlier than rolling.
**There’s a recipe for making tortas de aceite in my new cookbook, FLAVORS OF AL-ANDALUS.
Plum Galette with Aniseed
Ciruelas en Tarta Rústica con Matalahúga
Use any number of plum, from eight to 12 relying on dimension, and kind of sugar, relying on their tartness. The galette is nice sizzling or chilly, accompanied by whipped cream, Greek yogurt, or ice cream.
Serves 4-5.
8-12 plums
1 cup all-purpose flour + further for rolling out dough
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon aniseeds
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
1 egg yolk
3 tablespoons olive oil
4-5 tablespoons ice water
2 tablespoons almond flour
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1-2 tablespoons granulated sugar (non-obligatory)
Halve the plums and take away pits.
Mix 1 cup flour, salt, baking powder, aniseeds and sesame in a mixing bowl. Mix the egg yolk, oil and 4 tablespoons of water in a small bowl. Whisk to combine them.
Make a nicely within the middle of the flour and pour within the yolk-oil-water combination. Regularly stir the flour into the liquid substances to make a delicate dough. Add further water if needed. Flip the dough out on a evenly floured board and gently knead simply to mix the substances nicely. Collect the dough right into a ball and place it within the bowl. Cowl with a clear material. Chill the dough at the least 1 hour. (The dough could be ready a day prematurely, wrapped in plastic wrap and refrigerated.)
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| Fold dough up over the fruit. |
Preheat oven to 375ºF. Line a baking sheet with parchment.
Roll the dough out thinly on a evenly floured work floor to a circle about 14 inches in diameter. Roll the dough onto the rolling pin and unroll it onto the baking parchment. Sprinkle it with the almond flour.
Mix the plum halves and cornstarch. Place the plums, skin-side up, within the middle of the dough leaving a 1 ½ -inch border round them. Sprinkle the plums with 1 tablespoon of sugar, if utilizing. Fold the border of dough up over the plums, pleating the dough as wanted. Sprinkle with remaining sugar if desired.
Bake till the plums are effervescent and the pastry crust is golden, about 40 minutes. Serve sizzling or chilly.
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| Serve galette with a dollop of Greek yogurt. |
Extra concepts for utilizing plums:
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