Rustic Summer Fruit Crostata
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Italian
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Serves: 8 Servings
 
Rustic summer fruit crostata is the perfect dessert that is full of flavor, but light and delicious.
Ingredients
  • 1 store-bought pie crust
Filling
  • ⅓ cup pitted fresh cherries
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 2 Bartlett pears
  • 3 plums
  • 1 peach
  • ¼ cup water
  • 3 tablespoon turbinado sugar (or granulated sugar)
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 egg yolk, lightly beaten
  • 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar (to garnish the rustic summer fruit crostata)
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
Slurry
  1. In a measuring cup combine cherries, cornstarch, water, and 1 tablespoon sugar. Stir the mixture together and microwave for about 1 and a half minutes. Stop the cooking process to stir the mixture occasionally to keep it from becoming lumpy. You may need to add a small amount of water if the mixture becomes thick and lumpy. Stir the slurry until smooth then set aside.
Pie crust
  1. On a lightly floured surface with a floured rolling pin, roll pastry to a 13 -inch circle. Roll up pastry onto pin; unroll onto a large ungreased baking sheet.
Filling
  1. Wash peel, and core pears, plums, and peach; Cut the fruit into thin slices and into halves if needed. Place the fruit into a large bowl sprinkle with the last two tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla. Add the cherry slurry to the fruit and mix all the ingredients together.
  2. Mound the fruit filling into the center of the pastry dough. Leave a 2½-inch border. Fold border up and partway over the filling.
  3. Brush the edges of the crostata with the egg yolk.
  4. Sprinkle the crostata with the remaining turbinado sugar.
  5. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until pears are tender.
  6. Allow the rustic summer fruit crostata to cool before cutting. Option serve with vanilla ice cream.
Recipe by The Crafty Boomer at https://www.thecraftyboomer.com/rustic-summer-fruit-crostata/