Summer fruits are here and I love it! At the farmers market the other day I saw two things I can't find too often around here: Saskatoon berries and sour cherries.
Saskatoon berries look a lot like blueberries, but they taste completely different. When they're raw they are a little bitter, but baked in this tart they taste nutty and delicious, and go great with the sour cherries. They also keep their shape really well when cooked.
Sour cherries are amazing. I love sweet cherries but I've never used sour cherries before. They are bright red on the outside but their juice is clear, not dark like sweet cherries. They need to be sweetened but they have such a great cherry flavour. I can't wait to bake more with them!
This is a super easy puff-pastry galette, but you can use the filling for a regular pie if you prefer.
I have a cherry pitter to pit the cherries, but you can use a knife if you don't have a pitter, and it's a lot less messy with sour cherries than sweet.
Ingredients:
1.5 cups Saskatoon berries
1.5 cups sour cherries, pitted
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 sheet frozen all-butter puff pastry, thawed
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon turbinado sugar (raw sugar) or granulated sugar
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Mix the berries, cherries, sugars, lemon juice and corn starch in a large bowl until well combined.
Roll out the puff pastry on a sheet of parchment on a baking tray and poke it with a fork all over.
Mound the berry mixture in the middle of the pastry and fold the edges roughly up over the filling.
Brush the outside of the pastry with the beaten egg and sprinkle with raw sugar.
Bake for 25 minutes until golden brown and crisp. If juices leak from the tart, that's ok!
Serve warm or at room temperature with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
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