Recipe: Fig Galette

Hello you all!  I know it's been awhile since I posted anything.  Truth be told, I really haven't been doing much of anything.

There's a gardener-extraordinaire in our work building, when she has an abundance of things from her garden, she'll bring some in so that her coworkers with purple thumbs can enjoy.  Last week, she brought in the biggest figs I'd ever seen in my life!  They were about as big as the palm of my hand.  And they were super juicy.  So, I decided to make a fig galette (because, let's face it people - I'm lazy and can't make a full freaking pie!)  It turned out wonderfully, and I wanted to share the recipe and my tweaks with you all.

So, without further ado:  Fig Galette  (Original Recipe here)

• 1 Pie Crust  (I used a pillsbury un-rollable kind)
• 4 - 6 excellent large sized figs
• about 1/4 cup of jam (I used red currant, because that's all I had, darn it!)
• 2 Tablespoons sugar



chop up your figs

• With extra juicy figs, add 2 Tablespoons of corn starch

Step 1: preheat your oven to 375 Farenheit.  Gather your ingredients, and cut your figs up into quarters and then eighths.  Add them to a bowl or ziploc bag for mixing the sugars and things together later.

oil your dish (this is the
mini-baker from Pampered
Chef.)

Step 2: Get yourself a dish with sides, because honestly, a galette is a pain in the arse.  They want you to use a cookie sheet and just gently fold the dough over.  Well, I'm going to tell you, that's really hard to keep all together.  So, just get a sided dish.  Add some butter (I used coconut oil) to the bottom of the dish so that your pie crust doesn't stick.  Make sure that you spread the oil all around the base of the dish.

Step 3: Roll out your dough into your dish.  luckily, since you have sides, it doesn't have to be perfect because the sides will catch the juice that overflows.

mix your stuff

Step 4: Spread some jelly on that base.  I just guessed, honestly.  It looked like about 3 -4 tablespoons that I used...so a quarter cup is probably accurate.

Step 5:  Mix the sugar and the cornstarch together with the figs.  I had a lid with this container, so I used it and shook the mix up.

Pleat your galette

Step 6:  Pour your stuff into the crust.  and then fold the crust over the sides.  You can attempt to make it all beautiful by artfully pleating the crust as was mentioned in step 3 of the original recipe.  But honestly, who has the time and patience for this?  Mine looked just fine, thankyouverrymuch.

The finished piece

Step 7: Bake for 40-50 minutes until your house smells ridiculously delicious and the crust is starting to get flaky and brown.  Then let it stand cooling for another 15, but preferably 30 - if you can stand it!

Note:  I originally used half of the sugar and added honey for the other tablespoon, but I think the honey overpowered it a bit.  So, I'd probably just use straight sugar next time.