Apple and Blackberry Galette

Name: Apple and Blackberry Galette
Yield: Enough for 1 x 30 cm pie
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 65 g unsalted butter, softened; 70 ml ice-cold water; a pinch of salt; 175 g cold butter, cut into 1cm dice; 50 g caster sugar; 10 g caster sugar; 225 g strong bread flour; 60 g ground almonds; 1 egg; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 4 crisp apples, cored and sliced; 100 g blackberries; 1 egg, beaten; 2 tbsp demerara sugar

Preparation info

Enough for
1 x 30 cm
pie

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Café Cooking

By Gillian Veal

Published 2024

About

This is a great rustic basic recipe to use with seasonal fruit all year round. For a sweet fruit filling of any sort, I like to start with a layer of almond cream. It’s not obligatory but it’s a great base for most things.

Ingredients

225 g strong bread flour
10 g caster sugar
a

Europe
United Kingdom
Vegetarian
Pie
London

Method

In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar and salt. Add the cold diced butter and rub it into 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