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Fig, pear, and brie galette

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My Fig, Pear, and Brie Galette adven­ture started with a half-​eaten blue­berry cake, qui­etly incu­bat­ing under a tea towel for a week. Until the lit­tle bug­gers started fly­ing out every­where. Next thing I know, I’m run­ning to the back lane, cake, con­tainer and all, feel­ing ter­ri­ble for throw­ing out my mom’s cake pan, but unable to lift the towel and face the hor­ror under­neath. As care­ful as I was, some fruit flies remained at large, look­ing for their next vic­tim. It was obvi­ous that the 5 kilo bag of pears I bought last week needed res­cue. Enter the galette.

3 bestest friends — figs, pears and gooey melted brie. Take that, fruit flies.

Fig, pear, and brie galette

The figs I used here are the Kadota vari­ety — golden-​green, stock­ier type. They’re notice­ably less sweet than the pur­ple Mis­sion figs and have slightly thicker skin. Still won­der­ful — just a dif­fer­ent char­ac­ter, that’s all.

Fig, pear, and brie galette

If I had a small bak­ing shop, I’d make this galette all the time. So pretty and eeeasy — no food proces­sor needed. Here are some of my other ideas for fillings:

straw­ber­ries + blue­ber­ries + toasted wal­nuts
apples + cin­na­mon, obvi­ously
nec­tarines + whole roasted almonds + honey
savory galette — skip the sugar and fill with sweet cherry toma­toes, basil and mozarella (galette-​pizza!)

Yummy.

Fig, Pear, and Brie Galette

Aleks
Course Desserts, Sweet & Savory Baking

Ingredients
  

Fill­ing

  • 3 Kadota figs sliced into 4 seg­ments and fur­ther sliced in half
  • 3 pears peeled and sliced into 1 inch cubes
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • pinch of cinnamon
  • about 125g brie cheese sliced, or to taste

Dough

  • 2 cups all-​purpose flour
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 1 tsp bak­ing powder
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 6 tbsp cold unsalted but­ter cubed
  • 1 egg + 1 egg white
  • Pow­dered sugar for dusting

Instructions
 

  • Pre­heat the oven to 375F and but­ter a medium cookie sheet.
  • Pre­pare the fruit and place in a bowl with the brown sugar and cin­na­mon. Mix with your hands to com­bine. Set aside.
  • In a sec­ond bowl, pre­pare the dough: mix the flour, sugar, bak­ing pow­der and salt, and stir well to com­bine. Add the cold but­ter and rub into the flour mix­ture with your fin­gers until the con­sis­tency is sandy. Add the eggs and com­bine until a dough forms.
  • On a lightly floured sur­face, knead the dough a few times to form a soft ball. Using a rolling pin, flat­ten into a 13 inch cir­cle, dust­ing with flour if needed so it doesn’t stick. Trans­fer the flat­tened dough on to the cookie sheet.
  • Place the fruit mix­ture in the mid­dle, leav­ing about 2 inches from the edge of the dough. Top with the brie cheese. Fold over the dough, lightly press­ing in the creases.
  • Place in the oven and bake for 35 – 40 mins, until the crust is browned and the fill­ing bub­bly. Cut into wedges and serve warm, dusted with pow­dered sugar.
Keyword Basil, Brie, cheese, figs, flour, fruit, pears, Sweets, walnuts
Fig, pear, and brie galette
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