This Torta Salata-Mixed Vegetable Galette is just delicious! A crust made with flour, cornmeal and butter is totally flakey and easy to work with and is filled with colorful vegetables. Perfect for a Sunday brunch and goes great with a side salad.
If you're making this Torta Salata Mixed Vegetable Galette, be sure to also check out my Bruschetta with Mozzarella and Penne with Mozzarella and Cherry Tomatoes for more simple, vegetable forward Italian dishes.
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If you've been following my baking chronicles this past year, it's a little obvious that I have a great love of pies, tarts, crostatas. Savory tarts are just a wonderful excuse to have a pie for dinner. I love the ease of being able to fill it with whatever you have on hand.
Torta Salata-Mixed Vegetable Galette
Another great savory galette is this Tuna and Spinach Tart and this Ham, Goat Cheese and Vidalia Onion Tart...so flavorful!!
This is what I had on hand and worked magically for my vegetarian dinner. I had some leftover comte' cheese and that was diced and thrown into the galette as well. A splash of white wine on the shallots while they were sautéing. I roasted the tomatoes while the other vegetables were cooking. There was real cream in it.
I'm not saying it is low-cal or overly healthy. But sometimes it's ok to splurge a little. I used once again my galette recipe that is from Baking with Julia. It is truly phenomenal. The texture is slightly crunchy from the cornmeal. I can't tell you how many savory tarts we've had with this recipe. It is a keeper.
I am absolutely looking forward to making this again very soon. I brought the galette to a friend's house the other night and my friend even had a slice the next day for breakfast.
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Torta Salata-Mixed Vegetable Galette
Ingredients
Dough
- 1 c. all-purpose flour
- ¼ c. cornmeal I used plain cornmeal
- 7 Tb. cold butter
- ⅓ c. ice water
- 3 Tb. sour cream
Filling
- 1 tomato cut in chunks
- 4 tablespoons olive oil divided
- 1 shallot diced
- 1 potato peeled and diced
- 1 cup of whatever mushrooms you like sliced (I used shitake and button mushrooms)
- ¼ cup of sundried tomatoes sliced
- ¼ cup white wine
- 6 oz comte' cheese cubed (or whatever cheese you like)
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup heavy cream
- fresh thyme
Instructions
Dough
- Stir flour and cornmeal together. Cut in butter with your fingertips until butter is in pea-sized lumps.
- Stir ice water and sour cream together in a small bowl, then add to flour mixture.
- Mix together with a fork until mixture holds together and form into a ball.
- Put ball on a piece of plastic wrap, loosely gather plastic wrap around it and twist, then press dough into a disc.
- Refrigerate for one hour before rolling out.
- Lightly flour a pastry board or clean kitchen counter.
- Pat the pastry disc into a flat round. Roll the disc between parchment paper or plastic wrap. It should be slightly larger than the pie plate and ⅛-inch thick.
- Remove the plastic wrap on top.
- Make sure your tart pan is next to where you are rolling the dough. Carefully lift the
- dough up from the bottom wrap and place the dough around the rolling pin, then roll it into your pie plate
- FILLING
- Preheat oven to 350 F. On a foil lined baking sheet, spread the sliced tomato. Drizzle 1 tablespoon olive oil on top and roast until juicy (about 15 minutes).
- Heat the rest of the olive oil in a medium sauté' pan over medium-high heat. Add the shallot, diced potatoes, mushrooms, and sun dried tomatoes. Add the white wine. Season with salt, pepper, and thyme. Cook until soft. (about 10 minutes). Remove from the heat onto a plate and let the filling cool before assembling it in the galette. Set aside about ½ cup of the filling with the roasted tomatoes.
- If you left the oven on from roasting the tomatoes, great! If you did not, preheat your oven to 350 F.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the eggs and cream. Scatter filling ingredients into the galette.
- Toss on top the comte' chunks.
- Pour in the egg mixture. Toss on top the reserved vegetable filling and the roasted tomatoes.
- Sprinkle a little salt and pepper on top and a bit of the fresh thyme.
- Bake for about 40-50 minutes or until the tart is golden brown and the filling is set.
- Check tart at about 30 minutes. If the tart shell is browning too much, cover the tart with foil paper for the rest of the baking time. Let tart cool before removing from tart pan or slice directly in the tart pan when warm.
Nutrition Disclaimer
Please keep in mind that the nutritional information presented below is an approximation and may vary depending on the exact ingredients used.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipes. I love making them for my family.
I visit Italy through your recipes:-)
Hi Jean-Thank you for letting me know you enjoy the recipes! And that it's helping you visit Italy when you try them out! ENJOY!
What a BEAUTIFUL post! The way you write / photo is so relaxing to scroll through. Going to try some cornmeal and dairy-alternative in my dough recipe because it sounds perfect for such a dish. Brava.
What a great savory twist on the original recipe...and I love that you put potatoes in it too. I would love to have a slice for breakfast!!