The Smitten Kitchen's Blue & Red Berry Ricotta Galette

We're totally SMITTEN with Deb Perelman's festive Blue and Red Berry Ricotta Galette! It's the perfect recipe for this 4th of July holiday weekend. Deb Perelman has got some serious cooking chops. She founded of one of our favorite food blogs, Smitten Kitchen, and her fantastic recipes are trusted go-to's for every meal. Flavorful, seasonal, and just downright delicious, her recipes will change your cooking for the better. She uses real ingredients, full fat, and lots of flavor, just how we like it.

For the July 4th weekend we suggest Deb's Galette. It's delicious, adds a rustic charm to the dessert table, and it's much easier to make than a pie. Use local, organic berries, it'll make a difference.

GLOW TIP: We like to substitute all purpose flour for Cup 4 Cup Gluten Free Flour. Made by the incredible chef Thomas Keller, this gluten-free flour blend acts just like regular flour, but is a lot more digestible in your body. Use in place of all purpose flour in a one-to-one ratio.

Here's a link to her RECIPE which includes a great introduction and some more detailed recipe shots.

Smitten Kitchen's Blue and Red Berry Ricotta Galette by Deb Perelman

Yield: 1 7.5 to 8-inch galette, double or triple to make additional flavors

"Adding some ricotta to the dough will give it a nice subtle flavor, but you could replace that easily with yogurt or sour cream. Leakage is almost inevitable when making galettes but you shouldn’t sweat it because I’m convinced that it’s more distressing for the baker (who knows exactly how much jammy deliciousness has been lost) than anyone eating a wedge (it will taste like nothing is missing at all)."

Here’s the PDF template Deb has created  to help you form a star shape, if desired.

Pastry

  • 1 1/4 cups (160 grams) all-purpose flour // Cup 4 Cup Gluten Free Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon table salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons granulated sugar
  • Zest of half a lemon
  • 8 tablespoons (4 ounces or 113 grams) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
  • 1/4 cup ricotta, yogurt or sour cream
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons cold water

Filling

  • 2 cups berries or chopped fruit (I used raspberries and cherries on the red one, blueberries for on the blue)
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons granulated sugar (use the lower amount if your fruit is especially sweet)
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • Juice of half a lemon
  • Pinch of salt

Glaze

  • 1 egg yolk beaten with 1 teaspoon water
  • 1 heaped teaspoon turbinado or coarse sugar for sprinkling

Make dough: Whisk the flour, salt, sugar and zest together in the bottom of a large bowl. Work the butter into the flour with your fingertips or a pastry blender until mixture resembles a coarse meal and the largest bits of butter are the size of tiny peas. Stir ricotta and 3 tablespoons water together in a small dish and pour into butter-flour mixture. Stir together with a flexible spatula as best as you can, then use your hands to knead the mixture into a rough, craggy ball. Wrap in plastic and flatten into a disc. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour or up to 48 hours, or you can quick-firm this in the freezer for 15 minutes.

Assemble galette: Heat oven to 400 degrees. On a floured counter, roll the dough out into a large round-ish shape, about 14 to 15 inches across.

[If you'd like to form yours into a star, as shown, use the red dashed outline of this template [PDF]. It will print smaller on an 8.5×11-inch piece of paper than you need, but you can use it as a rough guide to cut as large of a pentagon shape as your dough will allow.]

Transfer round or pentagon-shaped dough to a parchment-lined baking sheet; I like to fold my dough gently, without creasing, in quarters then unfold it onto the baking pan. [If you're making a star, cut a 1-inch notch in the center of each side, angling it toward the center, as shown in the blue dashed lines of the template.]

Stir together all of the filling ingredients and spread them in the center of the dough, leaving a 2-inch border. If you’re making a round galette, fold the border over the filling, pleating the edge to make it fit. [If you're making a star shape, fold each of the 5 corners into the center, along the green dotted lines of the template. Pinch the outer corners closed, to seal in the filling and the shape.]

Whisk egg yolk and water together and brush over exposed crust. Sprinkle with coarse sugar.

Bake galette: For 30 minutes, or golden all over. Remove from the oven and let stand for 5 minutes, then slide the galette onto a serving plate. Cut into wedges and serve hot, warm or at room temperature, preferably with vanilla ice cream. [My favorite vanilla ice cream recipe is used here.]

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Photography by: Smitten Kitchen

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