Romanesco Cauliflower, Feta in a Black Sesame Seed Galette

I do love the vibrant green spiral coiled vegetable known as Romanesco Cauliflower.  I look forward to having it at least once a year, but when I do the question that often arises is 'What to do with it?' - without damaging its beautiful pointy cone shaped heads always baffles me in the culinary sense.

First I decided to simply blanch the the florets, ready to be tossed into a salad of some sort, but once I had drained the florets and set them aside to cool and dry off,  I found myself changing my mind.  Instead I went ahead and made another galette, throwing in some black sesame seeds, not just into the galette pastry, but also the topping to contrast with the white studs of feta cheese cubes.

Vegan Black Pudding and Sweet Potato Spelt Flour Galette

I am not a lazy person when it comes to making pastry from scratch. I make pies all the time, but I wanted to make a different style of pastry this time, both easier and perhaps lighter. I've been enjoying making sweet Galettes with homegrown fruit, so a savoury one was just waiting to be eagerly made.

Its my first time baking with spelt flour, and I thought it would be a lot more sturdy to hold the filling,, but the recipe I followed from a blog that I hadn't previously used a recipe from, sadly the pastry just collapsed and crumbled.  Despite the spelt pastry falling apart, the pastry was crisp and biscuity in texture and this balanced well with the sweetness coming from the roasted sweet potatoes.

As I had really enjoyed VPud 'Black Pudding' last time, I was very keen to get my hands on some more to make this particular galette as I have been imagining this combo would work well together. And it did, the vegan Black Pudding surprising spice  kick offsets the sweetness from the orange sweet potatoes beautifully, and the red onions just give it that additional contrast. I would be more than happy to make this again, just with a more reliable spelt pastry recipe. I have recently made one with a mixture of plain flour and spelt flour, so the recipe which I share below is still in its testing stage, so subject to change.

I think the colours in this Galette compliment Vegan Mofo's prompt today which happens to be 'Autumn Equinox Eats'.  The colours are orange, gold, and dusky dark brown - the colour of changing autumnal leaves.  Autumn is my favourite season. I look forward to pulling on my jumpers and cardigans, gloves,  crochet mitts and various knitted hats. I am sharing this Galette with Fabulous Foodie Fridays. and The Pastry Callenge as my Galette base, although an unsucessful one was made from scratch. It is hosted by United Cakedom and Jen's Food.