Galette Bretonne
It is a versatile dish, frequently garnished with egg, meat, fish, cheese, cut vegetables, mushrooms, apple slices, berries, or similar ingredients. One of the most popular varieties is that given here, a galette covered with Emmental cheese, a slice of smoked ham, and, optionally, an egg cooked on the galette made with delicious buckwheat flour.
❤️About
Galette, or more properly Breton galette (Galette Bretonne), is a type of large, thin pancake mostly associated with the region of Brittany, where it replaced at times bread as basic food, but which today is eaten across the whole of France.
Buckwheat was introduced as a crop suitable to impoverished soils and buckwheat pancakes were known in other regions where this crop was cultivated, such as Limousin or Auvergne.
❔FAQ
Emmental cheese is pale yellow in color with many holes. It has a sweet smell, with a hint of fresh-cut hay as some people have described it, with a nutty and somewhat buttery flavor, with a slightly fruity, acidic tone. Some swiss cheeses are similar.
🙌Variations
- Another variety is a hot sausage wrapped in a galette (called galette saucisse, a tradition of Rennes, France) and eaten like a hot dog.
- Of course, being traditionally Breton, you need to eat it served with cider!
In France this recipe is known as a galette complète (a complete galette).
💡Tips
- Galettes can be made quickly and simply, and are a great dish to have in your repertoire for unexpected guests.
- You could prepare a stack of galettes in advance ready to fill, but they don't take long to cook anyway.
For something different from this savory galette, try my new sweet galette Best Easy Apple Pie Filling Galette!.
✨More Great Recipes
You can try Buckwheat Crepe Recipe which is a classic French dish or a dessert galette called Galettes Bretonnes.
Here is a sweet galette recipe you will want to try Best Easy Apple Pie Filling Galette.
You can also learn a lot about making galettes by looking at this helpful page on how to make crepes.
📖 Recipe
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Ham And Cheese Galette With Buckwheat Flour
Ingredients
- 1 cup 250gr buckwheat flour
- 1 egg
- 2 cup 500ml water
- 2 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 slices of ham
- grated Emmental or cheddar gouda, harvarti, gruyere
Instructions
- Separate the egg yolk from the white.
- In a large mixing bowl add the egg yolk to the buckwheat flour, oil and salt.
- Start adding enough water to mix to a firm batter, when the batter is smooth with no lumps incorporate the rest of the water.
- In a small bowl whisk the egg white until it is peaking.
- Gently fold into the batter and leave to rest for at least an hour.
- When you are ready to cook your galettes, pre-heat a large non-stick frying pan (preferably a crepe pan) until it is very hot but not smoking, and pour a ½ cup or 120 ml ladle full of mixture into your pan. Tip the mixture around until it covers the pan evenly.
- When the edges are starting to lift up from the pan, flip the galette over.
- Lay a wide strip of smoked ham (about 7cm wide) down the middle and then sprinkle with Emmental cheese.
- When the sides are just browning fold the two edges over the ham and cheese and continue to cook for another minute or two.
- Turn over and cook for another minute or so until the cheese is all melted.
- Transfer to a pre-warmed oven dish and keep in the oven at a low temperature (around 120°C/250°F) while you cook the other galettes.
- When all the galettes have been prepared, enjoy!
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