Name: Pear and Stilton Galette
Yield: Enough for 1 x 30 cm pie
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 tbsp crème fraîche, seasoned with salt and pepper; 225 g blue cheese such as Stilton, Gorgonzola, Roquefort or Strathdon Blue; 1 egg, beaten; sea salt and cracked black pepper; 1 heaped tbsp Red Onion Marmalade; 2 nearly ripe pears, halved lengthwise, then each half cut into quarters lengthwise; 225 g strong bread flour; 175 g cold butter, cut into 1cm dice; 70 ml ice cold water; ½ tbsp finely chopped thyme; a pinch of salt

Preparation info

Enough for
1 x 30 cm
pie

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Café Cooking

By Gillian Veal

Published 2024

About

This makes a beautiful centrepiece for a relaxed dinner party but you could also make four individual galettes, which would be great for a very stylish picnic. Use this recipe as your staring point and adapt your filling according to what’s in season or available.

Ingredients

225 g strong bread flour
½ tbsp finely chopped thyme
a pin

Method

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, thyme and salt. Add the cold diced butter and rub it in to the flour using your fingertips – it doesn’t need to be too fine, you still want to see small pebbles of butter throughout. You can also do this by pulsing everything in a food processor.

Add the water. I use a knife (or fork if you are superstitious) to mix it just enough to bring the do

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