#14 Salted Caramel Pear Galette

Chefs Table

This is a video from class teaching students about how to make a salted caramel pear galette. Some highlights include making caramel and discussing how to prevent crystallization of the sugar, making pie dough from scratch and how to make a galette. Ingredients are listed below:

Salted Caramel

• ½ cup (200g) granulated sugar
• 3 Tablespoons (90g) butter, room temperature cut up into 6 pieces
• ¼ cup (120ml) heavy cream
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon corn syrup
• ½ tsp lime or lemon juice

Galette

• ½ pie dough from your group

• 1 ea pear or apple, peeled and diced

• 1 oz packed light or dark brown sugar

• 1 1/2 teaspoons all-purpose flour

• 1/2 fresh lemon, juiced (to prevent apple browning)

• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• salted caramel sauce (recipe above)

• egg wash: 1 large egg beaten with 1 Tablespoon milk or water

• optional: 1/4 cup(40g) total chopped almonds, raisins, coconut, etc...