These tart cherry galettes are a quintessential summer dessert or breakfast treat. They have a lightly sweet cornmeal crust and a touch of zest from the lime peel and black pepper.
What are galettes? They're like open-face pies or fruit tarts, but they're personal pan pizza sized and a lot less work to make. If you're not comfortable making pie crusts, great! Because they're supposed to look a little rustic.
These galettes are made with tart cherries (or sour cherries—same thing), which you can usually find at farmers markets in the summer. They're juicier than Bing cherries, and the skin is a little thinner. You can totally eat them like any other cherry, but the tartness makes them ideal for baking.
This is absolutely a summer recipe, but if you too avoid turning on the oven in the summer, try making these galettes in the early morning or in the evening.
🍒 Ingredients
- Flour
- Cornmeal
- Baking powder
- Sugar (regular and turbinado)
- Vegan butter
- Apple cider vinegar
- Tart/sour cherries
- Cornstarch
- Lime zest
- Black pepper
- Salt
🔪 Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, sugar, salt, and pepper.
Cut in the margarine and rub into the dry ingredients with your hands until the mixture resembles coarse pebbles.
Mix together the cold water and apple cider vinegar. Gradually add the cold water, until a soft dough forms. You may not need to add all of the water.
Divide the dough into 6-8 pieces (depending on how big you want the galettes).
In a small bowl, mix together the cherries, cornstarch, sugar, and lime zest.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
On a floured surface, roll out a ball of dough to 5-6 inches in diameter.
Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the cherry mixture in the center. Fold over the edges of the circle, overlapping with each fold, and place the galette on the baking sheet. Repeat with each piece of dough.
Sprinkle the galettes with turbinado sugar and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until golden.
💭 Tips
Don't have a cherry pitter? Me neither.
The easiest, fastest way to pit cherries is with a clean empty wine bottle (or any bottle with a narrow mouth) and a chopstick. Place a cherry on top of the bottle, then use the chopstick to push the pit into the bottle. All of the pits will be collected in the bottle so you can easily discard them, then recycle the bottle.
If you're going to go through all the work of pitting your cherries, you can pit all of your cherries and freeze the extras for another recipe (this cherry melon sherbet, perhaps?).
📋 Variations
If you can't find tart cherries or don't like them, these cherry galettes can be made with any kind of cherry or berry, like strawberries or blueberries. You can vary the type of citrus zest you too. For example, blueberry galettes would be delicious with lemon zest.
📖 Recipe
Vegan Tart Cherry Galettes with Cornmeal Crust
These tart cherry galettes are a quintessential summer dessert or breakfast treat. They have a lightly sweet cornmeal crust and a touch of zest from the lime peel and black pepper.
Ingredients
Crust:
- 2 ½ cups flour
- ½ cup cornmeal
- 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- ½ cup vegan butter
- ⅔ cup cold water
- 1 ½ teaspoons apple cider vinegar
Cherry filling:
- 1 ⅓ cups tart cherries, halved
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- ½ teaspoon lime zest
- Turbinado sugar for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, sugar, salt, and pepper.
- Cut in the margarine and rub into the dry ingredients with your hands until the mixture resembles coarse pebbles.
- Mix together the cold water and apple cider vinegar.
- Gradually add the cold water, until a soft dough forms. You may not need to add all of the water.
- Divide the dough into 6-8 pieces (depending on how big you want the galettes).
- In a small bowl, mix together the cherries, cornstarch, sugar, and lime zest.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- On a floured surface, roll out a ball of dough to 5-6 inches in diameter.
- Spoon about 2 tablespoons of the cherry mixture in the center.
- Fold over the edges of the circle, overlapping with each fold, and place the galette on the baking sheet. Repeat with each piece of dough.
- Sprinkle the galettes with turbinado sugar and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until golden.
Notes
- You can use any kind of cherry, berry, or fruit for the filling.
- Don't have a cherry pitter? Place a whole cherry on top of a clean bottle with a narrow mouth (like an empty wine or beer bottle), and pit the cherry by pushing the pit into the bottle with a chopstick.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1 galetteAmount Per Serving: Calories: 414Total Fat: 16gSaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 41mgSodium: 318mgCarbohydrates: 61gFiber: 3gSugar: 11gProtein: 7g
All nutritional information presented within this site are intended for informational purposes only. I am not a certified nutritionist and any nutritional information on seitanbeatsyourmeat.com should only be used as a general guideline. This information is provided as a courtesy and there is no guarantee that the information will be completely accurate. Even though I try to provide accurate nutritional information to the best of my ability, these figures should still be considered estimates.
This recipe was originally published in 2015 and has been updated with additional text and photos. The recipe has not changed.
Brian D
Looks delicious!
June @ How to Philosophize with Cake
What adorable little tarts! I will take one with a dollop of whipped cream 🙂