Description
The lovely thing about this Rustic Pear Crostata is that it works on so many levels for so many occasions. Whether it’s dessert or a dessert-like breakfast you’re going for…this crostata will serve you well!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cups salted butter, chilled and cut into small cubes
- 1/2 cup plus 2 Tbsp. ice cold water
- 4 large Bartlett pears, sliced paper thin
- Heaping 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/8 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp. freshly ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp. fresh lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp. flour
- 2 – 3 Tbsp. milk
- Sugar for sprinkling
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, place the flour, butter and water.
- Mix with your hands until everything is combined and the dough becomes one solid mass.
- Turn the dough onto a well-floured board and form into a disk.
- Wrap the disk with plastic and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400 F.
- In a large bowl combine pears, sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, lemon juice and flour.
- Remove dough from the refrigerator.
- Place a piece of parchment on a baking sheet then roll out the dough on the parchment to form a 12 inch circle.
- Leaving about 1 1/2 inches around the perimeter of the dough, pile the pear mixture in the center.
- Gently fold the border up and around the pears, pleating to make a circle.
- Brush milk around the edges of the dough and sprinkle the entire crostata with sugar.
- Bake for 40 minutes until the crust is golden and the pears are tender.
- Allow to cool.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.