Apple, Pear, and Quince Galette is a vegetarian side dish. This recipe serves 8. One portion of this dish contains roughly 2g of protein, 11g of fat, and a total of 237 calories. Head to the store and pick up unbleached flour, kosher salt, turbinado, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Instructions
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To make the crust, put the flour and salt in a food processor and pulse a few times to mix. Scatter the butter over the top and pulse until the butter is in pea-size pieces. Break the cream cheese into 3 or 4 pieces and add to the food processor. Pulse until the butter and cream cheese are in pieces that vary in size from oat flakes to peas. With the motor running, slowly drizzle in the ice water, a little at a time, adding just enough for the dough to hold together when you pinch a clump between your fingers. Listen for the sound of the motor to deepen, a clue the dough is ready.
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Cream Cheese
Oat Flakes
Water
Butter
Crust
Dough
All Purpose Flour
Peas
Salt
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Food Processor
2
Transfer the dough to a lightly floured work surface and knead briefly just to bring it together into a ball. Flatten it into a disk, wrap in plastic film, and refrigerate for at least 45 minutes or up to 1 day.
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Dough
Wrap
3
Cut the apple and pear into roughly 1/2-inch cubes. Coarsely grate the quince on the large holes of a box grater. Put all the fruits into a bowl, sprinkle with the brown sugar, flour, lemon juice, vanilla, and salt, and toss to coat evenly.
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Brown Sugar
Lemon Juice
Vanilla
Fruit
Quince
Apple
All Purpose Flour
Pear
Salt
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Box Grater
Bowl
4
Mix the butter evenly into the fruit.
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Butter
Fruit
5
Preheat the oven to 375°F, with a rack in the lower third. Turn a 17-by-12-inch rimmed baking sheet upside down, and cover the bottom with a sheet of parchment paper.
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Baking Paper
Baking Sheet
Oven
6
Place the dough disk between 2 sheets of lightly floured plastic film and roll out into a 14-inch circle. Peel off the top sheet of plastic film. If the circle is uneven, trim the edge of the dough with a pizza wheel or kitchen shears. Then, using the bottom sheet, flip the dough circle onto the parchment. (It will drape over the edges of the pan.) Carefully peel off the second sheet of plastic film.
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Dough
Roll
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Frying Pan
7
Arrange the filling evenly over the dough, leaving a 2-inch border around the edges. Using the parchment as an aid, fold the border up and over the fruit, tucking and pleating the pastry to snugly fit over the fruit as you go.
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Dough
Fruit
8
To finish, brush the pastry rim with half-and-half and sprinkle the turbinado sugar evenly over the pastry and the filling.
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Turbinado Sugar
9
Bake until the fruit is tender when pierced with a knife and the dough is golden, about 50 minutes.
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Dough
Fruit
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Oven
Knife
10
Let the galette cool on the pan for 15 minutes, then slide the parchment with the galette onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
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Wire Rack
Frying Pan
11
Melt the apricot preserves in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir in the liquor, then pass through a fine-mesh strainer into a small bowl.
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Apricot Preserves
Liquor
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Sieve
Sauce Pan
Bowl
12
Brush the glaze over the warm fruit.
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Fruit
Glaze
13
Serve the galette warm or at room temperature, cut into wedges.
14
Refrigerate leftover galette, tightly covered, for up to 3 days.
15
Heat on a baking sheet in a preheated 375°F oven for about 10 minutes to crisp the crust before serving.