7 things you should remember when making French pumpkin galettes

01.Dec.2017

You have probably been hundred times in a situation like me, where you had an ingredient but did not know how to use it. Or you have already tried all your recipes many times and now want something new.

To make things worse, while searching for recipes, I’ve been burnt too many times… the photo did not match the result. Or I just followed the recipe too literally from fear of an unsuccessful cake or dish.

30 minutes PREPARATION

60 minutes COOKING

Easy PREPARE

6 PORTIONS

components

170 gr of spelt flour
70 gr of buckwheat flour
1 spoon of brown sugar + 1 spoon for crust smearing
1/2 of a teaspoon of cinnamon + 1/2 of a teaspoon of cinnamon for filling
1/4 of a teaspoon of salt
110 gr of chopped cold butter
3-4 spoons of cold water + 1 spoon for crust smearing
1 teaspoon of vanilla flavour + 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavour for the glaze
400 gr of pumpkin
120 gr of honey
1,5 spoon of starch
1 egg
1 egg
50 gr of powdered sugar
4-5 spoon of almond milk

Instruction

Turn on the oven at 150°C to warm up.
Once it's warm, cut the pumpkin in equal pieces and bake them for about 30-40 minutes. When 25 minutes pass start checking on your pumpkin.
While the pumpkin is being baked, mix the flours, brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla, 3-4 spoons of cold water and one teaspoon of vanilla flavour into a smooth mixture. It's best to use your hands.
Knead the dough on a flat surface for about 10-13 minutes until you get a smooth mass.
Put it in a foil and leave in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
In the meantime, the pumpkin is already baked, so you should take it out of the oven, and raise the oven temperature to 170°C.
In a separate bowl mix honey, starch and 1/2 of a teaspoon of cinnamon and add the baked pumpkin, and then mash with a fork.
Sprinkle the flat surface with a little bit of flour, spread the dough so that is 7 mm thick and put it in the baking pan on which we previously put butter or oil.
Once we transferred the dough, put the filling in the center and partially put the dough edges over the filling.
In a smaller bowl mix 1 spoon of water and one egg and smear the edges of the dough.
Also, sprinkle the edges with sugar, you can use either white or brown sugar and put it in the oven for about 45 minutes. Check on the oven after the 30th minute.
Now we have to make the glaze out of 50 gr of powdered sugar, 4-5 spoons of almond or regular milk and one teaspoon of vanilla flavour.
Once the pumpkin galette is baked, take it out of the oven and leave it to cool down a bit and then pour the glaze over so that the crust can absorb the juices.
Now you can cut it, decorate it as you wish and serve. I decorated it with pumpkin seeds.

But in the end, it’s worth the effort. And that’s how I got to this French galette recipe. I tried, analyzed, felt down cause something was not going right, and then modified, modified and modified until I got this fantastic flavour. Pumpkin galettes crispy and juicy at the same time.

Pumpkin galettes and how I made them

You can find the exact measures of everything step by step in the recipe at the bottom of the page.

The rest depends on one’s taste 🙂

Right at the beginning

Don’t forget to turn on the oven to heat up at 170°C while you are preparing the pumpkin galettes.

How did I knead the crust?

I mixed the spelt and buckwheat (you can use both white and blakwheat, or just white…), that’s why it turned out so dark and rustic. For the aroma, I used vanilla (vanilla flavour), cinnamon, brown sugar (you can also use honey) and a little bit of salt.

So I mixed together all the ingredients, added a bit of water and cold butter and kneaded with my hands.

I tried to knead with a mixer, but it’s better if you do it with your hands…and faster believe it or not…cause the butter mixes in better under the body temperature, that is, finger temperature than under inox or mixer beaters 🙂

I kneaded, kneaded and kneaded until I got a smooth dough.

IMPORTANT STEP: Even though it seems as if the dough is falling apart, be persistent and knead…in the end you will get a smooth dough because the added water will do its job. If you think you need more water for some reason, add only a few drops…cause you will not be needing more for sure. Knead and be persistent about 10-13 minutes.

Then I wrapped the dough into a transparent foil and left it in the fridge for about 30-40 minutes.

In the meantime I went onto another important thing…

Making an ideal combination of flavours for the filling

My ideal combination was pumpkin puree, honey, and cinnamon.

First I cut the pumpkin in equal pieces and baked them in the oven at 150°C for about 30-40 minutes. Every oven is different, but when 25 minutes pass start checking on your pumpkin. It’s done when you can easily mash it with a fork.

I mixed honey and cinnamon in a separate bowl and added pumpkin, and then starch and mashed it all together with a fork.

Love rustic things, so I left a few pieces of pumpkin…I didn’t make the actual puree.

How to put it all together in a cast-iron skillet?

I stretched the dough with a rolling pin on the baking paper first, so that it’s easier to move it in the baking pan.

But I concluded that you can stretch it a little bit with a rolling pin and then finish it using your hands in the baking pan.

I baked the galette in the cast-iron skillet.

Don’t forget to smear oil or butter over the cast-iron skillet…just until it gets shiny. It goes the same for any other casserole in case you don’t have a cast-iron skillet.

Then move the dough for galettes – crust – into the cast-iron skillet (or any other baking pan).

In the central part put the honey, cinnamon and pumpkin puree mixture, then put the rest of the crust over the mixture, so that it sticks out a bit as well. That’s how you get pumpkin galettes, unbaked though.

All in all, it should look like this…

Then, I whisked the egg with a fork and added a bit of water and put the mixture over the edges of the galette…and then I sprinkled them with sugar…you can either use white or brown…it doesn’t matter.

I put it in the oven and baked for about 40-45 minutes. Start checking on it after 30 minutes.

But while the pumpkin galette is baking…don’t forget…

To prepare the glaze

I made the glaze out of powdered sugar, almond milk (you can also use regular milk) and vanilla once again.

I mixed it all together with a fork.

Once the pumpkin galette was baked, I took it out of the oven and left it to cool down.

Don’t forget to…

Pour the glaze over it

So, leave the pumpkin galette to cool down a bit, but not to cool entirely…and while still lukewarm pour the glaze over it…You should have enough glaze to cover the entire pumpkin galette so that the crust absorbs everything. That’s how it becomes juicy…while the crispiness you get by baking and the combination of flours:)