Zucchini galette with feta cheese

This zucchini galette with feta is perfect as lunch, brunch or appetizer. You buy the bottom ready-made and fill it with zucchini. Top the edges with sesame seeds and in just under half an hour you will have a work of art on the table. I serve this zucchini galette at almost every get-together and it is always to my liking.

A galette is a French term for a flat, round and fairly thin cake or pancake made from a simple dough of flour, butter, water and salt. Popular in Brittany, a region in western France, galettes are traditionally made with buckwheat flour and filled with savory ingredients such as bacon, eggs and cheese, or sweet ingredients such as fruit and sugar. They are often baked on a hot stone plate and served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Galettes are a delicious and easy way to enjoy the flavors of French cuisine.

I made a simpler version that you can have in the oven in less than 10 minutes. So I used a sheet of round puff pastry from the supermarket that I spread with cream cheese and topped with the zucchini. I topped the galette with cress, thyme, honey and feta. A delicious vegetarian sheet cake was the result!

This zucchini galette with feta can actually also be called a savory sheet cake. For the dough I used a kind of quiche/leaf pastry that you can just buy at the supermarket. The filling consists of zucchini. Zucchini is a vegetable that is generally available from spring through fall, depending on the region and climate in which it is grown. It is often associated with spring and summer because it is at its peak and more readily available at that time of year. You also notice now in the supermarket and market that they are cheaper AND a lot bigger than usual. That's because now is the time!