Name: Summer Fruit and Amaretti Galette
Yield: Serves 4–6
Ingredients: 8 amaretti biscuits, crushed; ice cream, clotted cream or pouring cream to serve; 6 cherries, pitted and halved; a pinch of caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling; a pinch of salt; 110 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting; 70 g cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes; 45 ml iced water; 2 tbsp jam sugar; 3 nectarines, halved, pitted and sliced; 1 egg white for glazing

Preparation info

Serves
4–6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vegetarian Kitchen

By Prue Leith and Peta Leith

Published 2019

About

This is a delicious, quick-to-put-together fruit tart. The fruit you use is up to you. Just remember that a variety of fruits make it look appealing and taste great, too. We’ve used nectarines and cherries, but apples and blackberries would be good, as would apricots and prunes.

Ingredients

3 nectarines, halved, pitted and sliced
6 cherries, pitted and halved
2 tbsp jam sugar

Method

To make the pastry, combine the flour, salt and pinch of sugar in a mixing bowl, and using your fingertips, rub the butter into the flour until the lumps of butter are roughly the size of petits pois. Add the iced water, then use a butter knife to bring the mixture together to form a very raggedy, ropey-looking dough – do not bring it into a ball of dough. Press it gentl

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