Easy and Delicious Blueberry Galette | Best Blueberry Crostata

Quick and delicious mini blueberry galettes or crostatas on white parchment paper.

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Easy and Delicious Blueberry Galette | Best Blueberry Crostata

Blueberry Galette or Blueberry Crostata is a simple and easy to make, yet so impressive fancy dessert where the sweet and fresh blueberries are encased in perfectly crispy, flaky, and buttery homemade pie crust. The best summer dessert recipe that is ready in 40 minutes and is under 450 calories per serving!

Prep Time15

Cook Time25

Total Time40

Course: Brunch, Desserts, sweets

Cuisine: American, French, Italian, Latin America

Servings:

Calories: 434kcal

Author: Kushi

Ingredients

For the pastry dough or pie crust (Feel free to use store bought pie crust)

1 ½ cups All purpose flour (Maida)
½ cup Butter , cold, cubed,1 stick (Use vegan butter for vegan version)
½ teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoon Sugar
¼ to ½ cup Ice cold water , divided (add as needed in 1 tablespoon increments)

For the Galette filling

3 cups Blueberries
2 tablespoon Cornstarch
⅓ cup Sugar (adjust to taste depending on sweetness of berries)
1 ½ teaspoon Vanilla extract
⅛ teaspoon Salt (a pinch)
Zest of lime (½ lemon)
Juice of ½ lemon (or lime)

Other Ingredients

1 large Egg , for egg wash (for eggless or vegan version you can brush with cream or milk or simply water)
3 tablespoon Sugar Turbinado Sugar or coarse Sugar to sprinkle on top
Ice cream for serving if desired

Instructions

STEP 1 - Prepare The Pastry Dough Or Pie Crust. If Using Store Bought Pie Crust, Skip This Step

In a large mixing bowl, add flour, salt, and sugar. Cut the butter into the flour mixture using a pastry cutter or fork until butter is well blended. Small speckles or pieces of butter combined with flour, sugar, and salt are what we are aiming for.
1 ½ cups All purpose flour, ½ cup Butter, ½ teaspoon Salt, 2 teaspoon Sugar
Sprinkle ice-cold water over this flour mixture 1 tablespoon at a time and mix it using your hands till it comes together to form a dough ball. The amount of water depends on the brand of flour too. If you add too much water, then add extra flour and adjust accordingly. You may also use a food processor to complete the above two steps.
¼ to ½ cup Ice cold water
Warp the dough in plastic wrap and keep it in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

STEP 2 - Prepare The Filling

In another bowl, add blueberries, cornstarch, sugar, vanilla extract, salt, lemon zest, lemon juice, and toss. Here you can adjust ingredients as per taste depending on the sweetness of the fruit.
3 cups Blueberries, 2 tablespoon Cornstarch, ⅓ cup Sugar, 1 ½ teaspoon Vanilla extract, ⅛ teaspoon Salt, Zest of lime, Juice of ½ lemon

STEP 3 - Assemble The Galettes And Bake

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Unwrap the dough onto a floured surface and divide them into 3 balls to make 3 galettes.
Working one at a time, adding extra flour as needed, use a rolling pin to roll each ball about 1/16 to ⅛th inch thick. Carefully transfer this to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Alternatively, you can make one galette of 12-inch or14-inch round or 6 mini galettes.
Divide the blueberry filling into 3 galettes at the center of the dough leaving 1 inch on the edges so that it can be folded up to encase the filling.
Gently fold the crust edges up in an overlapping fashion and pleat the dough. Make sure there are no cracks.
Brush the folded galette crust with egg wash or water or milk, and then sprinkle it with sugar.
1 large Egg, 3 tablespoon Sugar
Bake for 25 to 35 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the fruit is bubbly. Baking time varies depending on the size, thickness of the galette. Transfer the galette to a wire rack and let it cool completely.
Blueberry Galette is ready. Serve with a scoop of ice cream and enjoy.
Ice cream

Notes

Expert Tips

I have used just blueberries for the galette filling. You can make a mixed berries galette or a galette with any combination of fruits. Some best blueberry pairings are blueberry and peaches, blueberries and pecan, blueberry and nectarine.
The amount of filling you add to the dough can be varied as desired.
Vary the amount of sugar to taste.
For best results, use seasonal fruits. Summer for berries
If you are making a galette, in the fall season, nothing can beat the apple galette. Simply sauté chopped apples in cinnamon, sugar, and butter and then use this as a filling.

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