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’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
It was time for a another Vintage Recipe Swap that is put together by Christianna Reinhardt at Burwell General Store. We are on out second book and Christianna found this gem of a book, The Second Ford Treasury of Favorite Recipes from Famous Eating Places. It was published in 1954 and highlights famous restaurants of that era. This month we were to swap ingredients from The Imperial House in Chicago. The recipe was for zabaglione for two. I was inspired by the eggs and wine in the recipe and created a savory 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.
Torta Salata-Mixed Vegetable Galette
Ingredients
- DOUGH
- 1 c. all-purpose flour
- 1/4 c. cornmeal I used plain cornmeal
- 7 Tb. cold butter
- 1/3 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)
- 1/4 cup of sundried tomatoes sliced
- 1/4 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 1/8-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 1/2 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.
Wow, that looks so delicious 🙂 I love a good galette, especially when it's brushed with eggyolks 🙂 Looks fantastic!
Ha! Yeah, I couldn't go sweet either, on this recipe swap! Always love reading your posts- thanks so much for being a part of the swap, and providing me with my latest dinner idea!
This looks so good Lora! I rarely make savory tarts. It is definitely something I need to do more often. Like you said–it's a wonderful excuse to have pie for dinner!
looks so good! Hope you had a great weekend!
I'm completely craving NON sweet food so am finding your recipe swap post another that is making my stomach growl. Love your ingenuity too Lora to deliver this from the first recipe!
Wow! This looks amazing Lora :)! I haven't made a savory tart in a while, but I am feeling like I need to after seeing this! It is beautiful with all of the colored veggies. Hope you had a wonderful weekend :)!
I like your friend, because she even had a slice for breakfast. That'd be me, eatin' this thing for all meals of the day. It looks delicious!
I love the idea of having pie for dinner….or even breakfast! I think this one would be good for either. Looks delicious!!!
Ohh wow,this tart looks delicious!I am not too much into 'sweet' tarts,so to say, just because the tartness becomes too much for me at times.But this being a savory one will really be delightful!Thanks so much for sharing:)
Yum. Wanna share?
Just when I make something sweet, sort of, breakfast you make something savory. All reversed!! 🙂 Love this vintage recipe club I always had the best intention of doing it but so bad with deadlines. The tortalooks delicious!
The torta looks divine. I love the look and sound of all the food you are creating. I love beets and will try this recipe ASAP. Thanks for sharing.
Shauna
I want in on yours and Barb's party! This look amazing!
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This looks just delicious and I love the mushrooms Of course now this is making me quite hungry. Lovely.
This looks so tasty, Lora! We are trying to do more veggie dishes at night, so I may have to give this recipe a try. Hope your weekend was great!
Oooh, I love savory tarts. Love the idea of adding cornmeal to the crust for the crunch! This looks amazing– what could go wrong with shallots and wine and mushrooms and cheese?? Delish!
yum, I love tarts and basically any egg dish, great job on the swap!
I love it when I haven't visited some of my favorite bloggers for a while … and then I happen in a killer recipe! This looks so healthy and tasty … kind of reminds me of a jazzed up Spanich omelet in a crust! Yum!
You need an excuse to have pie for dinner? The recipe swap is certainly a great reason to experiment in that department! Savory recipes are always welcome in a dessert swap, especially vegetarian pies!