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Rick Stein’s Rhubarb Galette

  • Time preparation 20 minutes, plus cooling time
  • cook time 50 minutes
  • Serve Serves 8

Rick Stein uses the season’s finest pink forced rhubarb to make a mouth-watering winter pud

Recipe taken from The Road To Mexico by Rick Stein, photography by James Murphy (£26, BBC Books)
  • 225g plain flour
  • Pinch salt
  • 170g cold, unsalted butter, cut into 1cm cubes
  • 80ml ice-cold water
  • For the filling:
  • 500g rhubarb, cut into 6cm long batons (save any trimmings)
  • Finely grated zest of an orange
  • 200g granulated sugar
  • Pinch salt
  • Juice ½ orange
  • 1 tbsp muscat dessert wine
  • 30g unsalted butter, melted
  • 30g caster sugar
  • 2 tbsps sugar, for the glaze
  • To serve:
  • Vanilla ice cream or whipped cream

In a food processor, pulse the flour and salt. Add the butter and process briefly. Sprinkle over the ice-cold water and pulse for about 5 seconds, until just moistened.

Transfer the dough to a floured work surface and knead it 2 or 3 times until it comes together. Pat the dough into a disc. Lay a sheet of baking parchment on your work surface and dust it with flour.

Roll out the dough like a pizza to make a 35cm circle, 4–5mm thick. Transfer the parchment to a baking sheet and chill the pastry.

Preheat the oven to 220°C/Fan 200°C/Gas 6. Toss the rhubarb in a bowl with the orange zest, sugar, salt, juice and wine and mix well. Arrange the rhubarb on top of the pastry and sprinkle over any remaining sugary mixture.

Leave a border of 5–6cm around the edge of the pastry, fold that in and crimp to form a border. Brush the fruit with melted butter and sprinkle with caster sugar, then repeat this process three times.

Bake the galette for 10–12 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 200°C/Fan 180°C/Gas 5 and bake for a further 30–35 minutes.

To make the glaze, cook the rhubarb trimmings with 75ml of water until soft. Strain the liquid from the pulp and add the 2 tablespoons of sugar.

Pour this back into the pan and let the sugar dissolve, then reduce to a thick syrup. Leave the galette to cool, then brush it with the glaze. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

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Time

Time Serves 1 litre

Peach & Raspberry Galette

Time 30 minutes

Time Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 225g plain flour
  • Pinch salt
  • 170g cold, unsalted butter, cut into 1cm cubes
  • 80ml ice-cold water
  • For the filling:
  • 500g rhubarb, cut into 6cm long batons (save any trimmings)
  • Finely grated zest of an orange
  • 200g granulated sugar
  • Pinch salt
  • Juice ½ orange
  • 1 tbsp muscat dessert wine
  • 30g unsalted butter, melted
  • 30g caster sugar
  • 2 tbsps sugar, for the glaze
  • To serve:
  • Vanilla ice cream or whipped cream

Method

In a food processor, pulse the flour and salt. Add the butter and process briefly. Sprinkle over the ice-cold water and pulse for about 5 seconds, until just moistened.

Transfer the dough to a floured work surface and knead it 2 or 3 times until it comes together. Pat the dough into a disc. Lay a sheet of baking parchment on your work surface and dust it with flour.

Roll out the dough like a pizza to make a 35cm circle, 4–5mm thick. Transfer the parchment to a baking sheet and chill the pastry.

Preheat the oven to 220°C/Fan 200°C/Gas 6. Toss the rhubarb in a bowl with the orange zest, sugar, salt, juice and wine and mix well. Arrange the rhubarb on top of the pastry and sprinkle over any remaining sugary mixture.

Leave a border of 5–6cm around the edge of the pastry, fold that in and crimp to form a border. Brush the fruit with melted butter and sprinkle with caster sugar, then repeat this process three times.

Bake the galette for 10–12 minutes, then lower the oven temperature to 200°C/Fan 180°C/Gas 5 and bake for a further 30–35 minutes.

To make the glaze, cook the rhubarb trimmings with 75ml of water until soft. Strain the liquid from the pulp and add the 2 tablespoons of sugar.

Pour this back into the pan and let the sugar dissolve, then reduce to a thick syrup. Leave the galette to cool, then brush it with the glaze. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.

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