Apple Galette With Pine Nuts And Candied Lemon Recipes

FAVORITE APPLE GALETTE

Steps:

• Whisk 1 1/8 cups flour, white sugar, and salt together in a bowl. Press 1/2 cup butter pieces into flour mixture with your fingers until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
• Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour water and vanilla into well; quickly work water and vanilla into flour to create a loose dough, adding more water if the dough is crumbly. You should be able to squeeze it in your hand and have it stay together but be a bit crumbly. Shape dough into a flat disc, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
• Stir brown sugar, 1 tablespoon flour, and cinnamon together in a bowl. Add apples and toss to coat. Let sit for flavors to blend, about 10 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Roll dough out into a large, rough circle on a baking stone or baking sheet. Pour apple mixture into the center of the dough, leaving a 2-inch uncovered border, and dot apples with 1 tablespoon butter.
• Fold edges of dough up over the apples, leaving an opening in the center. Dot dough with remaining 1 tablespoon butter and sprinkle coarse sugar over the dough.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the crust is crisp and golden and apples are tender and caramelized, 40 to 45 minutes.

APPLE GALETTE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F. Remove chilled dough from refrigerator, unwrap, and place on a lightly floured work surface. Let stand about 10 minutes (to soften slightly). Bang on dough with a rolling pin (to begin flattening and soften a bit more).
• Dust top and pin with flour, position pin on center of disk, and begin rolling dough away from you. Give disk a quarter-turn and roll again. Continue turning and rolling in this manner until you have a 13-inch round with an even 1/8-inch thickness. Transfer to a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet. Refrigerate while making filling.
• In a large bowl, combine apples, granulated sugar, flour, lemon juice, salt, and cinnamon. Spread filling evenly over dough, leaving a 1 1/2-inch border. Fold edges of dough up and over apples, leaving most of fruit exposed and overlapping dough as needed. Brush dough with beaten egg; sprinkle with sanding sugar. Refrigerate 15 minutes.
• Bake until crust is golden, apples are tender, and juices are bubbling in center, 1 hour to 1 hour and 5 minutes. Using a pastry brush, spread some of juices from center of galette over apples. Transfer sheet to a wire rack; let cool 10 minutes. Using a large spatula, loosen galette from parchment and move away from any released juices (so it doesn't stick to parchment as it cools). Slide galette (still on parchment) onto rack and let cool. Serve warm or room temperature.

APPLE-WALNUT GALETTE

Steps:

• Position racks in the middle and lower third of the oven; preheat to 350 degrees F. Make the dough: Pulse the flour, granulated sugar and salt in a food processor until combined. Add the butter; pulse until the mixture looks like coarse meal with pea-size bits of butter. Beat the egg with 1 tablespoon ice water in a bowl, then add to the processor and pulse once or twice. (Stop before the dough gathers into a ball.) Turn out onto a sheet of plastic wrap and pat into a disk. Wrap tightly and refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, prepare the filling: Toast the walnuts on a baking sheet on the middle oven rack until golden, 7 to 8 minutes; let cool. Process the nuts, 1/4 cup granulated sugar, the egg, 1 tablespoon butter, the vanilla and salt in a clean food processor to make a creamy paste.
• Line a flat baking sheet (or an upside-down rimmed one) with parchment paper. Roll the dough into a 12-inch round on a floured surface. Roll the dough up onto the rolling pin, then unroll onto the parchment. Spread the walnut filling over the dough, leaving a 1 1/2-inch border around the edges. Chill while you prepare the apples.
• Increase the oven temperature to 400 degrees F. Peel, core and halve the apples, then cut each half into 8 wedges. Arrange over the filling in a circular pattern, slightly overlapping. Fold the edges of the dough inward, pleating it. Sprinkle the apples with the remaining 1 tablespoon granulated sugar and 2 tablespoons butter.
• Bake the galette on the middle oven rack until golden, 40 to 45 minutes. (Put a baking sheet on the lower rack to catch any drips.) Cool on a rack. Whisk 1 tablespoon water and the preserves in a bowl. Strain, then brush over the apples. Dust with confectioners' sugar, if desired.

APPLE GALETTE WITH WALNUTS AND RAISINS AND A STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Prepare sweet galette dough.
• Combine flour, salt, sugar, cinammon in bowl of electric stand mixer.
• Add butter to mixture and blend until pea size chunks form.
• Slowly Add ice water with mixer at low speed and stop both mixer and adding the ice water immediately when dough holds together.
• Do not overmix.
• Place dough on floured board and divide into 2 round disks.
• Wrap each in wax paper and place in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes (can be kept overnight).
• Prepare Apple filling.
• Fill a large bowl 2/3 full with ice water.
• Add 3 Tablespoons lemon juice to prevent browning of apples.
• Peel, core and slice apples into 1/2 inch slices, place in bowl and set aside.
• In a smaller bowl mix together the remaining apple filling ingredients and set aside.
• Prepare Streusel.
• Mix all ingredients together to form small clumps.
• Set aside.
• FINAL ASSEMBLY.
• Roll each dough disk into 12 to 13 inch rounds.
• Dough should be about 1/4 inch thick.
• Place and center dough onto 15 inch lengths of parchment paper and then center paper on 10 inch tart pans with removable bottoms.
• Some paper and dough will hang over ends of the tart pan.
• Drain liquid from sliced apples.
• Add remaining flling ingredients to apples and mix well to combine.
• Add one half of apple mixture to each tart pan.
• Pile mixture higher in the center.
• Sprinkle apple mixture with streusel topping.
• Heavier in the center, lighter towards the edges.
• Fold over the dough edges onto the apple mixture and lightly pleat the dough all around the tart pan.
• The galette should be smaller than the tart pan.
• Brush exposed dough lightly with milk.
• Sprinkle turbinado sugar on dough.
• Place tart pans in oven and bake for 40 to 50 minutes.
• Check tarts after 30 minutes and if browning too fast, reduce heat to 350 degrees to finish baking.
• Bake until crust has a nice deep brown color.

APPLE GALETTE WITH PINE NUTS AND CANDIED LEMON

Steps:

• First make the candied lemon slices. Make the dough, roll it into a large circle 1/8 inch thick, and set it on the back of a sheet pan or on a cookie sheet without sides. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Thinly slice half of the apples crosswise and toss them with the currants, sherry, pine nuts, 4 teaspoons of the sugar, and the cinnamon. Finely chop the remaining apples, then toss them with 4 teaspoons sugar. Mound them in the center of the dough, forming a 7-inch circle, and arrange the sliced apples over the top. Add the juice from the bowl. Cut about half the lemon slices in half and tuck them among the apples. Fold the edges of the dough over the fruit, pleating it as you go, partially covering the apples. Brush with the melted butter and sprinkle with the remaining sugar. Pour any extra butter over the apples. Bake until the crust is richly glazed and the apples are tender, about 45 minutes. Serve warm with Tangy Whipped Cream. Candied Lemon Slices: Bring a cup of water and a cup of sugar to a boil in a small heavy saucepan. Add 2 thinly sliced lemons and simmer, covered, for 25 minutes. Let cool, then transfer to a covered container. They will keep for at least a month, refrigerated.