Pudding Baking

Peach & Raspberry Galette

We love fruit galettes - that tasty filling, and that buttery crust! The freeform dough creation, folding the dough over the filling, means that no baking tin or special equipment is needed. A galette-style tart works for all seasons with so many ingredients. Peaches and raspberry is a lovely summery combo but you can create alternate fruit fillings depending on what's in season.

20 minutes, plus chilling time prep, 30 minutes cook

Serves 4

Ingredients

200g plain all-purpose flour

50g icing sugar

50g ground almonds

A pinch of table salt

150g chilled unsalted butter, cut into cubes

1 egg, plus 1 egg white

200g ripe peaches, halved and de-stoned

50g raspberries

1 lemon

3 tbsps granulated sugar

1 tbsp plain flour

1⁄2 tsp ground cinnamon

A few gratings of whole nutmeg

2 tbsps peach or raspberry jam

A few sprigs of mint

Method

To make the galette dough, mix the dry ingredients (flour, icing sugar, ground almonds and a pinch of salt) in a medium bowl. Rub in the butter then make a well in the centre. Crack in the egg with 2 tbsp ice-cold water and use a dinner knife to bring it together into a rough galette dough.

Wrap the galette dough in clingfilm (plastic wrap) and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 190°C/Fan 170°C/ Gas 5.

Slice the peaches and place in a bowl with the raspberries. Add a squeeze of lemon juice to the fruit, toss, then sprinkle over 2tbsps granulated sugar, 1 tbsp flour, the cinnamon and nutmeg, then mix. Roll out the chilled dough to a rough 30cm circle, 3mm thick. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with greaseproof paper.

In a small bowl mix the jam with a little squeeze of lemon juice. Spread most of the jam over the base of the pastry leaving a 2-inch border. Arrange the fruit over the jam. Fold the pastry border over fruit then brush the egg wash over the border.

Brush the fruit with the remaining jam and sprinkle all over with the remaining caster sugar. Bake the galette for 30 minutes until the pastry is golden brown. Serve hot with vanilla ice cream.