A galette is basically a informal pie/tart which can be savory or sweet. You roll out a pie crust and add pie filling then fold up the edges. It’s easy, delicious and fast to make! Every year we go cherry picking in the early summer and we love it! I always make something with the cherries and this cherry galette is a favorite! It is also know as the lazy women’s pie because it’s super easy to make!
The hardest part about this recipe, if using fresh cherries is de-pitting the cherries. You can buy a cherry de-pitter online if you are de-pitting hundreds or you can use a wooden skewer to push the pit through the area the stem was attached. You just push through the opposite end of the cherry and the seed should pop out the opening where the stem was attached. It will look like a murder scene by the time you are done but it will taste so delicious!
What you need to make this cherry galette:
For the pie crust:
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup cold butter (diced before so it can be worked into the flour without melting too much)
2 tablespoons sugar
2 – 1/2 to 3 tablespoons cold water
For the Cherry Filling:
1 – 1/2 cups cherries – fresh or frozen (pits removed)
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons corn starch
2 tablespoons water
Instructions for cherry filling:
In sauce pan, combine cherries, sugar, lemon juice. Stir over medium heat until sugar melts and cherries start to soften, about 3-4 minutes. In a small bowl, mix corn starch and water together then bring cherries and sugar to a boil and whisk in the corn starch mixture until it thickens.
Instruction for crust:
Preheat oven to 375 F.
Mix flour, salt and sugar together. Add cold butter and with a pastry cutter, two fork or using your hands quickly mix the butter into the flour mixture. It will look like a buttery crumbly flour mixture. Add the cold water and work dough together until a dough that sticks together but isn’t stick forms. Place dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll out to desired thickness. Add finished pie filling into center of pie crust them fold up edges. Lay edges towards the center of the pie about 1- 2 inches.
Bake for ~22-25 minutes when pie crust is golden brown and looks cooked through.
You can serve warm or with Enjoy!
Cherry galette
Ingredients
- For the pie crust:
- 1 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup cold butter diced before so it can be worked into the flour without melting too much
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 - 1/2 to 3 tablespoons cold water
- For the Cherry Filling:
- 1 - 1/2 cups cherries - fresh or frozen, pits removed
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons corn starch
- 2 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Instructions for cherry filling:
- In sauce pan, combine cherries, sugar, lemon juice. Stir over medium heat until sugar melts and cherries start to soften, about 3-4 minutes. In a small bowl, mix corn starch and water together then bring cherries and sugar to a boil and whisk in the corn starch mixture until it thickens.
- Instructions for pie crust:
- Preheat oven to 375 F.
- Mix flour, salt and sugar together. Add cold butter and with a pastry cutter, two fork or using your hands quickly mix the butter into the flour mixture. It will look like a buttery crumbly flour mixture.
- Add the cold water and work dough together until a dough that sticks together but isn’t stick forms.
- Place dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll out to desired thickness.
- Add finished pie filling into center of pie crust them fold up edges. Lay edges towards the center of the pie to form a 1- 2 inch crust.
- Bake for ~22-25 minutes when pie crust is golden and looks cooked through.
- You can serve warm or cooled.
- Enjoy!