Make A Perfect Pear Galette With Exceptional Ease | Bon Appétit

Foreign today I'm going to let you in on a secret pair gallet that looks very fancy but is actually ridiculously easy it looks like it would take a lot of time but it takes you about 30 minutes from pulling out your ingredients to putting it in the oven.

The galette has a lot of store-bought ingredients but it's rooted in classic French Patisserie techniques I'm going to start by making my almond cream almond cream is a big element in a lot of French pastry from pies to Tarts you might recognize it in your morning I'm.

In croissant and here's what I mean about being easy fancy almond cream is just a bunch of ingredients stirred together in a bowl and you can easily make this ahead candied ginger is perhaps my favorite addition to this recipe it adds these little bursts of sharp intense flavor.

Which is not too overwhelming but it complements the pears so well foreign let's talk about canned pears something that feels very old-fashioned and forgotten but it really does the trick in this recipe canned pears are doing what poached pears would it's just easier it has the.

Perfect texture it's already peeled using canned pears saves you literal hours take your time slicing the pears foreign it's a big part of the recipe it's the big hero moment of your pie this is the philosophy behind easy fancy cooking just because something is store-bought.

Or canned doesn't mean you can't treat it right the base of this Tart Is store-bought puff pastry puff pastry is one of the few ingredients that don't even try to make it at home it's just not worth it the secret to working with puff pastry is to try and keep things as cold as.

Possible Toya pastry overnight in the fridge and then use it while it's still cold if the pastry warms up the fat gets warm and melty and it's going to leak out of your pastry when you bake it and it's also just really messy to handle in professional kitchens you have something called a Docker which is like.

A paint roller but with spikes it looks very painful but that's what you use to roll across pastry but at home you can just use a fork at first glance you wouldn't guess that half or more of the skillet is pre-made or store-bought but deployed judiciously store-bought ingredients can be nothing less than.

Smart cooking shout out to my pastry brush which is the only pastry brush I use it's Japanese goat hair brush the bristles are super soft they don't fall out and it's just so delicate it's such a joy to use it looks so nice and artistic a lot of pastries are brushed with egg wash on top because it Browns and makes things.

Look glossy here though it's acting as a glue for my almonds foreign s are here for two purposes it adds visual contrast and also it adds some texture they also pick up the flavor from the Almond cream and amplify it I baked the tart at two temperatures.

Higher in the beginning to set the pastry then lower to fully bake through and make it super crisp while The galette Cools I'm going to make the honey butter that goes on top this honey butter is similar to the neutral gel that most pastry shops will brush on top of their fruit tarts if you've ever seen one looking very glazy.

And shiny that has neutral gel on it foreign ER adds this glossy element to the very top again putting the fancy in our gallet this will give you that glossy Sheen but with extra flavor from the honey and the final flourish as always with everything I bake is a hit of flaky salt.

Cutting into the pastry you can hear that audible crunch straight from the almonds the pears are offering very little resistance I love serving this with ice cream if you can find Ginger ice cream that's over the top but vanilla will do I still maintain that it's best for breakfast.

But serving it with a scoop of ice cream makes it perfect for a dinner party foreign