Blueberry Galette with Puff Pastry
This blueberry galette with puff pastry is a stunning and easy dessert. The base is made of homemade rough puff pastry and juicy blueberries. I use a rough puff pastry. It bakes up beautifully and holds the blueberry filling well without getting a soggy bottom. If you’re short on time, you can make this with store-bought puff pastry too!
A galette is a pie for a busy person. It’s a free-form pie, made from flaky pastry dough rolled into a circle and topped with fruit. The taste is just like a pie, with a little more crispness from the exposed pastry.
The galette dough in this recipe is using a rough puff pastry as opposed to traditional pie crust pastry. Puff pastry works super well in a galette. The finished product tastes like a blueberry danish pastry. This rough puff pastry is a lot faster than traditional puff pastry but the flavor and texture are still amazing. With puff pastry, the dough is rolled and folded multiple times, which creates layers. As it is baked, the water in the butter evaporates and pushes these layers up.
The whole process takes time because of a 2-hour fridge rest, but really it actually requires next to no work to make! This recipe below makes enough dough just for the galette. If you follow the full rough puff pastry recipe , you can make a larger amount that can be frozen for future recipes.
You could also use a store-bought 245g/8oz sheet of puff pastry.
The blueberry filling
The blueberry filling is vibrant, sweet, and juicy. It’s made of blueberries, lemon juice, lemon zest, vanilla, a hint of cinnamon, granulated sugar, and salt. There is also cornstarch added which helps to thicken up the filling so the galette doesn’t leak.
The best part is that you can use either fresh blueberries or frozen blueberries, so you can make this delicious dessert at any time of year. It’s not just for the summer months!
Let’s see how to make it!
- If you’re making your own pastry, you’ll need to allow 2 hours of chilling time.
- Cold butter cubes are added to flour, a little sugar and salt.
- Chop them in with a pastry cutter, but keep the chunks quite large.
- Add enough liquid so it holds together when pressed, then roll it into a rectangle
Fold it like a pamphlet. The you turn it a quarter turn and do this process again. Fold and roll a total of 6 times.
- Chill the dough for at least 2 hours after all the rolling and folding has been completed.
- Roll out the pastry into a large circle.
- Toss blueberries with cornstarch, sugar, cinnamon, salt, vanilla, and lemon.
- Add the blueberry filling to the middle of the dough and fold over the edges.
- Brush the pastry with egg wash.
- Bake until golden brown and the filling is bubbling.
- Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream
Blueberry Puff Pastry Galette
Ingredients
Pastry
- 125 g all-purpose flour
- 113 g unsalted butter cold and cubed
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon lemon juice or white vinegar
- 50 g cold water
Filling
- 450 g blueberries fresh or frozen, no need to thaw if frozen
- 50 g granulated sugar
- 2 Tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 Tablespoon lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or paste
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon of salt
Egg wash
- 1 large egg
- 1 Tablespoon water
Instructions
Rough Puff Pastry (Or use 245g/8oz store-bought puff pastry and skip to the Shaping step)
- Begin by chopping the butter into 1 inch cubes and placing them in the freezer for 5 minutes to ensure it's nice and cold.
- To a large bowl add the flour, sugar, and salt and mix them together. Add the cold cubes of butter to the flour.
- Use a pastry cutter to roughly cut the butter into the flour, but not too small. A few small pieces are fine but the rest can be left in fairly large chunks. If the butter is melting at any point, place the bowl in the refrigerator.
- Pour the lemon juice into the ice-cold water. Drizzle it into the dough slowly, a tablespoon at a time. Use a spatula or your hands to combine it into a shaggy dough. Add enough water as needed but not too much. Add any extra water slowly, a tablespoon at a time.
- It should hold together easily when pressed but not be sticky. If the dough is super crumbly, add a bit more water. You don't want it sticky.
- Form the dough into a mound and let it chill in the fridge for 10 minutes. If your room temperature is very cold, you can begin rolling right away.
Laminating
- On a floured work surface, roll the dough with a rolling pin into roughly a 5x10inch rectangle. You will see large chunks of butter in the dough. Dust off any excess flour from the top of the dough.
- Fold the bottom third of the dough up to the middle, then fold the top third of the dough over top to make a pamphlet shape. That was Fold 1. Turn the dough a quarter turn and roll it back out into a rectangle and repeat the folding. That was fold 2.
- Repeat this process 4 more times so you do 6 folds in total. If you are making this on a cold day then there is no need for any fridge rest in between the rolling of the layers unless the butter is melting. In the summertime, the rough puff pastry will likely need a fridge rest in between every second fold to ensure the butter stays chilled.
- After the last fold, wrap the dough up tightly in plastic wrap and place it in the fridge for a minimum of 2 hours or up to 24.
Shaping
- Preheat the oven to 400°F/ 200°C.
- Roll the puff pastry dough out into a 16inch circle. It can be a rustic circle, with no need for perfection. Place the dough onto a sheet of parchment paper. It will hang over the edges for now, but later, you will fold the edges of the pastry over, and then it will fit.
- In a large bowl combine the blueberries, cornstarch, sugar, salt, lemon juice, lemon zest, cinnamon, and vanilla, and toss it all together to coat.
- Lay the blueberries into the center of the dough leaving a 2-inch (4-5 cm) edge. Sprinkle on any of the left-behind cornstarch/sugar mixture that's left in the bowl.
- Fold the edges of the dough over the filling, going around the edge of the circle. Transfer the galette to a baking sheet.
- In a small bowl whisk the egg and water and use a pastry brush to brush the edges of the pastry.
- If your oven isn't at temperature yet, place the unbaked galette in the fridge while you wait.
- Bake the galette at 400°F/ 200°C for 15 minutes, then turn the oven down to 375°F/ 190°C and continue baking for around 25 minutes more until the edges are a deep golden brown and the filling is bubbly and thick.
- Once baked, let the galette cool for at least 15 minutes before serving to let some of the juices in the filling thicken up. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
Question: How much (in grams) rough puff pastry, made using tour big batch recipe, would one need to make this recipe?
About 250g of puff pastry, or around that amount 🙂
Made this for my family and they love it. I will definitely make it again.
So happy to read this Amy! 😀
In the ingredients for blueberries you don’t show any vanilla or the amount but down in the directions you say put in vanilla does a recipe have vanilla and if so what is the amount it’s supposed to have thank you so much
Thanks for the heads up! A teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla paste 🙂