Scrumptious Summer Rhubarb Galette

Rhubarb is one of early summer’s most delicious sweet and tart edible perennials. Whip up this easy galette and enjoy a rustic French-inspired rhubarb pie.

Let’s make a rhubarb galette! This is such a scrumptious recipe! It’s summery, sweet, tart, crumbly, and easy to make too! The best way to describe a galette is an easy, rustic, peasant pie. You don’t need a pie pan and the pastry dough serves as a bowl to contain the luscious fruit filling. This might be your favorite summer dessert!

CLOSE UP OF RHUBARB GALETTE

WHAT IS A GALETTE

A galette is a very French dessert. Basically, any round dough or pastry, or sponge is a galette. But for our purposes, we are making a pie dough recipe and then filling the middle with Rhubarb and wrapping the dough up and around the scrumptious filling!

But don’t stop at rhubarb!

Fill a galette with seasonal summer fruits and you will have a crowd-pleasing dessert all summer long! Or create a savory stew and wrap it up galette style!

This is a keeper recipe, for sure!

MY RHUBARB LOVE STORY

The rhubarb is so beautiful, here in Lancaster County. And freshly picked rhubarb is showing up in our local farmer’s markets.

I first tasted rhubarb on a trip to my paternal grandparent’s farm in Missouri when I was just a wee girl and I was hooked! I love the sweet/tart taste when it is baked into a pie or galette or cake or made into a jam or sauce. 

Rhubarb can be easily grown in a yard or garden; because it is a perennial, it will come back year after year! If you have never had a rhubarb dessert, this is a great recipe to begin with. Just don’t eat it raw. It is way too tart! 

Here’s rhubarb right from our garden!

PIE DOUGH ROLLED OUT ON A PAN

HOW TO MAKE A RHUBARB GALETTE

Let’s make a scrumptious summer rhubarb galette!

The pate’ brisse is an amazing all-butter pie dough. And so easy to make in the food processor! I love that I can roll the dough out so easily into a 14-inch round. It doesn’t have to be perfect!

The rhubarb filling is loaded with sweet and slightly tart fruit flavors. After I mixed the filling together I dumped it in the middle of the pie dough. Oh, yum!

RHUBARB IN THE CENTER OF PIE DOUGH

And here it is! Right out of the oven! YUM!

RHUBARB GALETTE RIGHT OUT OF THE OVEN

This is one of my recipes. It’s so so easy! And the taste is really like biting into summer!

GALETTE ON A WORK SURFACE WITH A HOT PINK FLOWER

If making a pie dough is not for you, use 1 store-bought refrigerated pie dough round. Store-bought will work just fine, but nothing tastes as good as homemade dough!

SCRUMPTIOUS RHUBARB GALETTE

An easy, free-form pie filled with summer fruit goodness! Super easy dessert and company worthy
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Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 cup unsalted butter cold and cut into small pieces
  • 1/4-1/2 cup ice water
  • 1 lb rhubarb, sliced 1/2 inch thick
  • 1/2 juice of one-half lemon
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp nutmeg freshly ground
  • 1 large egg beaten
  • sugar regular, sanding or turbinado
  • 1 TBS unsalted butter cut into small pieces

Instructions

  • Add the flour, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp sugar to a food processor. Whirl to blend
  • Add the 1 cup of cold butter cut into small pieces to the food processor. Process for 10 seconds until the mixture resembles course meal.
  • While the processor is running add the cold water 1 TBS at a time. Add just enough water to hold the dough together.
  • Remove the pie dough from the processor and shape into a disc on a floured surface. Wrap tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to a few days.
  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper
  • On a lightly floured surface roll out the dough into a 14 inch round. Place on the baking sheet. Set aside.
  • Place the rhubarb and juice of 1/2 lemon in a bowl and toss to coat.
  • Add 3/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup flour, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, 1/8 tsp nutmeg to the rhubarb and mix to thoroughly coat.
  • Arrange the rhubarb on top of the dough in the center leaving about a 2-inch border of dough all the way around it.
  • Fold the dough border up and over the rhubarb, overlapping it and pressing the sides against one another leaving the center open and the rhubarb showing. See image.
  • Brush the dough with the egg wash, sprinkle it with sugar and dot the rhubarb with the remaining 1 TBS unsalted butter.
  • Put the galette in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
  • Bake until the crust is golden brown an the rhubarb is bubbly, about 55- 60 minutes.
  • Move to a wire rack to cool.
  • The rhubarb galette can be served warm or cold. Best with ice cream!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Servings: 8 people

This recipe will work well with all summer fruits that can be put into a pie. I hope you will make this your easy go-to summer dessert!

RHUBARB GALETTE ON A WORK SURFACE WITH BLUE AND WHITE PLATES

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12 Comments

  1. Hi Yvonne! I’ve never had just rhubarb pie. I’ve had it mixed with strawberries and it’s very delicious! I’ll be going to Kroger’s to pick me some rhubarb and I’m gonna use a homemade pie crust recipe I have (it’s so buttery)! Then I’ll top it off with a scoop of vanilla ice cream! Yummy!

  2. Victoria Schwalbe says:

    I make something very similar to this with a little topping I use for crisps. Peaches and especially plums are scrumptious too. You make so many great dishes. I’m always looking for new ideas and always find them here.

  3. Hi, the galette looks delicious! Do you have to peel the rhubarb or do you leave the skin on?

  4. Theresa Kleinschmidt says:

    Yummy! I love rhubarb pie and my husband not so much,but I think I can convince him to try some with homemade vanilla ice cream. Thanks for the inspiration Yvonne and have a great day!

  5. Charlene Klein says:

    Seem to always have problems printing your recipes!

  6. Maria Elena says:

    Dearest Yvonne:

    I am a rhubarb aficionado! I love it so much I planted it in my kitchen garden. The bunnies do not like it so my rhubarb is safe. I have been making jams, crisps and pies every May for years. Your post brought a smile to my face and I am anxious to make a galette with your recipe. Thank you once again for your lovely inspiration.

    1. Hi Maria, I love rhubarb too! This is such an easy recipe and the rhubarb shines!

  7. Sandra Carlson says:

    Pennsylvania spring rhubarb is delicious! Remembering my mom’s and grandma’s pies and their stewed rhubarb… such a unique tart flavor. Thank you for sharing your galette recipe …will definitely try if rhubarb is available in our Hawaii commissary …it usually is!