Mixed Berry Crostata

Enjoy summer’s best berries inward this slow as well as delicious Mixed Berry Crostata

Summer berries are the perfect add-on to only close everything as well as anything. Enjoying a bowl of yogurt for breakfast? Top it amongst a few ripe berries. Tossing a unproblematic salad together for dinner? Throw inward a few blueberries or strawberries for a sublime treat. Have yous always tried blackberries on a pizza? So good, I promise! It’s slow to throw inward a few berries as well as add together a lively popular of flavour to all your favorite dishes. In add-on to those savory recipes, summertime berries wrapped inward a buttery, crispy crust are some of my favorites! Whether it live inward a pie, cobbler, or this crostata, berries as well as crust are the perfect match.

 

What’s the deviation betwixt a crostata as well as a galette?

Crostata is an Italian term as well as galette is French. That’s it! Both are rustic pies made on a baking canvas instead of inward a pie plate or tart pan. They tin live sweetness or savory as well as filled amongst only close anything yous tin imagine. While they’re slow to make, in that place are some mutual mistakes that tin ruin your fun niggling creation. Check out this post past times Rochelle Bilow at Bon Appétit for tips on making the best galette.

 

What form of fruit tin yous utilisation inward a crostata?

Make this crostata amongst your favorite berries or rock fruits, or a combination of both. We honey the peach as well as huckleberry combo as well as plums as well as blackberries are cracking together too. If you’re using juicy fruits, I recommend adding cornstarch to the saccharide earlier tossing over the fruit. This niggling fox volition assist forbid all the juices from oozing out when the crostata is sliced.

 

Serve amongst a unproblematic scoop of H2O ice cream for an incredible spell of heaven!

 

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Mixed Berry Crostata

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

45 mins

Total Time

1 hr 15 mins

 

Course:

Dessert

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the pastry dough:

• 
  2
  cups
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  12
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter,
  cold as well as cutting into cubes
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  salt
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  powdered sugar
  


• 
  1
  large egg yolk
  


• 
  2
  tablespoons
  ice water
  

For the filling:

• 
  4
  cups
  mixed berries,
  (blackberries, blueberries as well as raspberries)
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  cornstarch
  


• 
  1/3
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  Juice of 1/2 lemon
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  cold unsalted butter,
  cut into small-scale pieces
  


• 
  egg wash
  


• 
  Coarse saccharide for topping
  

Instructions

To laid upwardly the pastry dough:

1. 
   
   Combine the flour, tabular array salt as well as powdered saccharide inward the bowl of a nutrient processor. Add the butter as well as pulse until it forms a coarse meal. Add the egg yolk as well as H2O ice H2O as well as pulse only until the dough comes together.
   
   


2. 
   
   Gather the dough together as well as split into 2 equal size pieces. Form each spell into a disc as well as identify on a spell of plastic wrap. Wrap tightly as well as refrigerate for 1 hr or overnight. If chilled overnight allow the dough to residue at room temperature for 15-20 minutes earlier rolling out.
   
   

To get together the crostata:

1. 
   
   Preheat oven to 375F.
   
   


2. 
   
   Place the berries inward a large mixing bowl. In a small-scale bowl or touchstone cup, whisk together the cornstarch as well as saccharide as well as pour over the berries. Add the lemon juice as well as toss to combine.
   
   


3. 
   
   Divide the dough inward half. On a lightly floured, build clean function surface, curl each one-half into a 10-inch round. Transfer the disc to a parchment lined baking sheet. Repeat amongst the remaining dough. Mound one-half the berry mixture inward the optic of a dough circular leaving a 2-inch border. Fold the edges of the dough up, overlapping equally needed, roofing business office of the fruit. Scatter one-half the diced butter on transcend of the fruit.
   
   


4. 
   
   Brush the dough edges amongst a lightly beaten egg as well as sprinkle amongst coarse sugar. Bake the crostatas until crust is golden brownish as well as the fruit is bubbling, close 45–50 minutes. Let cool earlier serving.
   
   

Recipe Notes

• Do non brand the dough rounds whatsoever larger than 10 to eleven inches. The dough volition live also sparse as well as non agree together well.


• Pastry dough recipe adapted from a recipe past times Nigel Slater

Here are a few to a greater extent than summertime berry recipes yous mightiness enjoy:

 

Mixed Berry Hand Pies amongst your favorite berries tucked within a tender, flaky buttery crust. No fork needed! Click HERE to larn the recipe.

 

Mini Deep Dish Berry Pies are made amongst fresh picked, juicy dark raspberries, as well as a super soft, lightly sweetness pastry dough making this a wonderful summertime fourth dimension treat! Click HERE to larn the recipe.

 

Thanks as well as then much for stopping by!  Tricia

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