Recipe Buckwheat Sunshine Galette

To make this dish

Ingredient list

  • Cream-based puff pastry
    1500 g plain flour (T55, approximately 11% protein)
    30 g salt
    100 g water
    1000 g Lescure UHT Cream 35% fat
    1000 g Unsalted 1kg butter Sheet 84% fat
  • Buckwheat frangipane cream
    422 g Unsalted 1kg butter Sheet 84% fat
    161 g sucre
    215 g ‘Vergeoise’ black sugar
    422 g egg
    422 g Finely ground raw almonds
    64 g buckwheat flour
    250 g pastry cream
    42 g dark rum (optional)
  • Pastry cream
    193 g milk
    48 g egg yolks
    39 g sucre
    10 g plain flour (T55, approximately 11% protein)
    10 g powdered cream
  • Thyme-scented lemon confit
    155 g citrons jaunes
    129 g lemon juice
    52 g pear puree
    46 g sugar
    18 g yellow pectin
    36 g dextrose
    2 g lemon zest
    4 g lemon thyme
  • Caramelized puffed buckwheat
    360 g Puffed buckwheat
    25 g water
    50 g sugar
  • Puffed buckwheat
    60 g graines de sarrasin
    300 g oil
  • Buckweat Sunshine Galette finishing touches
    43 g graines de sarrasin
    107 g sucre cristal (gros grain)
    SQ dextrose

The recipe, step by step

  1. 01

    Cream-based puff pastry

    Dissolve the salt in the water. Combine the flour combine the flour, salted water while slowly drizzling in the cream. Shape into a ball, roll out into a rectangle and let rest in the refrigerator. Roll out the dough and insert the butter sheet. Close up the dough package and give it its turns.

  2. 02

    Buckwheat frangipane cream

    Toast the buckwheat flour at 170°C for 20 minutes. Cream the softened butter with the two types of sugar. Add the ground almonds and toasted buckwheat flour. Gradually incorporate the room-temperature eggs. Stir the room-temperature pastry cream until smooth and add to the other mixture. Finally, add the warmed rum.

  3. 03

    Pastry cream

    Prepare a traditional pastry cream.

  4. 04

    Thyme-scented lemon confit

    Blanch the whole lemons in salted water for approximately 20 minutes. Cut into pieces, remove the seeds and blend with the lemon zest and juice then pear purée. Add the sprigs of lemon thyme, tied together or placed in a cheesecloth. Heat to 40°C, remove the lemon thyme, then add the combined pectin, sugar and dextrose. Heat to 40° Brix. Blend again if necessary. Transfer to a container and let cool.

  5. 05

    Caramelized puffed buckwheat

    Heat the sugar and water to 117°C. Add the puffed buckwheat and caramelize.

  6. 06

    Puffed buckwheat

    Cook the buckwheat groats in water for 7 minutes. Drain and rinse. Dry in a 100°C convection oven for 2 hours. Heat the oil to the smoking point and deep fry the groats until they puff. Drain on absorbent paper.

  7. 07

    Buckweat Sunshine Galette finishing touches

    Give the pastry 5 single turns, allowing proper resting times between each turn. Roll the dough out to a thickness of 1.5 mm and cut into Ø30 cm discs. Let rest. Place the puff pastry trimmings in the refrigerator, then re-roll to a thickness of 1.5 mm. Prick with a fork and let rest. Cut into Ø24 cm discs.


    Pipe 350 g of frangipane into a Ø24 cm circle on a sheet of parchment paper. Pipe 60 g of lemon confit on top, then pipe another 140 g of frangipane over it. Smooth the surface and freeze.


    Place a Ø24 cm puff pastry disc made from the trimmings over the frozen frangipane insert, then place the entire insert onto a Ø28 cm puff pastry disc.


    Moisten the edges of the puff pastry disc with water using a pastry brush and lift the edges to seal the galette. Flip the galette over, lightly moisten the surface, and sprinkle with the combined sugar and buckwheat flour mixture.


    Score the top, prick the pastry, and cut a Ø2 cm steam hole (chimney).


    Bake in a 170°C convection oven for approximately 35 minutes. Dust with dextrose and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Let cool.


    Decorate the centre of the galette with caramelized puffed buckwheat.


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