BHA & BHT Free Classic Savory Galette Dough
This rustic pastry dough is the kind of foundational recipe every home baker needs in their back pocket — endlessly versatile, deeply buttery, and satisfying to make from scratch. The short ingredient list is the whole point: just flour, salt, sugar, real unsalted butter, apple cider vinegar, and ice water, with no preservatives or additives hiding anywhere. For anyone avoiding BHA and BHT, store-bought pie crusts and pre-made doughs are a minefield of ingredient labels, which makes a homemade version like this genuinely worth the extra few minutes. The apple cider vinegar is a smart touch that relaxes the gluten just enough to keep the finished crust tender and flaky without overworking the dough. Keeping the butter ice-cold and working quickly are the two real secrets here — those visible pea-sized butter pieces are exactly what create those gorgeous, shatter-crisp layers once baked. After a chill in the fridge, it rolls out beautifully into a rough circle ready to cradle whatever sweet or savory filling you have in mind. Clean ingredients, honest technique, and a result that tastes like it came from a proper bakery.
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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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