Peach Galette

I have been loving the fruits of summer, and I have an obsessive desire to make pies and tarts and jams using every possible fruit and berry!

This is a peach ginger tart that I improvised based on my recent strawberry apple galette http://lauramanthei.blogspot.com/2011/07/strawberry-apple-galette.html

Basically I peeled and sliced four peaches, mixed them with approximately 3 Tbsp sugar and 1 heaping Tbsp corn starch, the juice of one lemon, and 1/2 Tbps grated gingeroot.

For the crust I followed the original recipe, but added lemon zest instead of orange zest.

This crust recipe is amazing!

From: http://mansurovs.com/recipes/stawberry-apple-galette-recipe

• 1 1/2 all purpose flour
• 2 Tbsp granulated sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 4 oz (8 Tbsp) chilled unsalted butter
• 1-2 Tbsp orange zest
• 3 Tbsp cold milk
• 1 egg white to brush the Galette

So you start by cutting the butter into chunks.  Then mix together flour, sugar and salt.  Add in butter and mix with your fingers until it resembles a course meal.  Then add orange zest and ice cold milk and blend with a fork until it clumps together. Do not knead the dough!!! Gather the clumps and press together into a ball.  Flatten into a disk, wrap in plastic wrap, and put in the fridge to chill for 1 hour.



Then you roll out the dough into a circle on some parchment paper, put fruit filling in the center and fold up the edges.  Brush with one egg white and then sprinkle the whole thing with some brown sugar.

Bake for 40 minutes at 400 degrees.

Here is the finished product:

Delicious! The filling tasted like peach pie.  I impressed myself with this one ;)