Almond Free Classic Savory Galette Dough
Rustic, buttery, and endlessly versatile, this free-form pastry dough is the kind of foundational recipe every home baker needs in their back pocket. The short ingredient list — flour, salt, sugar, cold butter, apple cider vinegar, and ice water — keeps things beautifully simple, with no nut-based flours or almond extracts sneaking in anywhere. That matters more than you might think, since many store-bought pastry doughs and baking mixes can include almond flour or almond oil as a texture booster. Here, the flakiness comes entirely from properly chilled butter worked into the flour until you get those satisfying pea-sized crumbles. The splash of apple cider vinegar is a quiet little trick that relaxes the gluten just enough to keep the crust tender without making it tough. Once it's rested and rolled out into that rough, imperfect circle, you're ready to pile on whatever filling you love — sweet stone fruit, savory roasted vegetables, creamy cheese. It's the kind of dough that makes you feel like a serious cook with very minimal effort.
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1 serving
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp fine salt
- ½ tsp sugar
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch cubes and chilled
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 3–4 tbsp ice water
Instructions
- 1
Whisk together the flour, salt, and sugar in a large mixing bowl until evenly combined.
- 2
Add the chilled butter cubes to the flour mixture and work them in with a pastry cutter or your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs with some pea-sized butter pieces still visible.
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