Pear Tarte Tatin With Salted Caramel Sauce - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, cut into small pieces
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
4 None firm, ripe pears, peeled, halved, cored but with stalks still attached
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed, cut into a circle to fit your frying pan
None None vanilla ice cream, to serve
None None Salted Caramel Sauce
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup cream
3 1/2 tbsp butter
1 tsp sea salt
1 tsp sea salt

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375\u00b0F.
Sprinkle butter and sugar over the base of a 10 inch ovenproof frying pan. Sprinkle with spices. Arrange pears, cut-side down, in pan, stalks facing center. Cover with puff pastry, tucking sides down neatly to enclose pears. Place over medium heat and cook for 10-15 mins, or until sugar and butter caramelizes.
Transfer to oven for 30 mins, or until puff pastry is golden brown and caramel is bubbling up around sides. Let cool for 5 mins.
Meanwhile, to make the salted caramel sauce, bring sugar and 1/2 cup water to a boil. Carefully whisk in cream, butter and salt. Transfer to a serving vessel.
Cover tarte tatin with a serving plate and carefully turn upside down to remove from pan. Serve immediately with salted caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream.