the most incredible authentic Lemon pie with meringue! delicious homemade pie crust, fluffy flambé meringue topping. It doesn’t get any better!
Super easy to make lemon pie with meringue recipe is similar to my first and original recipe i published on my blog earlier this year! made entirely from scratch with a few tips here and there. The pie crust is made from scratch and is mainly inspired by allrecipes’s recipe.
Lemon pie with meringue
what is it ? it’s essentially a type of baked pie, served as a dessert and made out of shortcrust pastry, lemon custard filling and meringue topping.As for the meringue, it’s a type of candy made out of whipped egg whites and sugar for few minutes to get that fluffy texture.
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Authentic Lemon Pie with Meringue
Super easy to make lemon pie with meringue recipe is similar to my first and original recipe i published on my blog earlier this year! made entirely from scratch with a few tips here and there.
Ingredients
- 75 g cornstarch
- 220 g sugar
- 125ml lemon juice
- 300 ml water
- 2 tsp lemon zeste
- 60 g butter diced into cubes
- 3 eggs
- 100 g additional sugar
- pie crust
- vanilla pod
- 70gr granulated sugar
- 200gr all purpose flour
- 125gr cold butter
- 1 egg
Instructions
- First of all Prepare the pie crust, by opening the vanilla pod and scrape the seeds.Mix in a bowl the vanilla pods and the granulated sugar.
- Also Sift the flour on your working space. Cut the butter in pieces and work it by hand with flour until the until the preparation is sandy.
- Dig a small well in the mix obtained.Crack the egg and pour sugar and vanilla mix. Mix by hand all the ingredients, but without kneading them too much.
- mash the dough to make it homogeneous, then roll it in a loop, wrap it in a film and let it rest for at least 30 minutes.
- melt the remaining butter.Coat in a 26cm diameter pie pan with removable bottom (or 6 tart pans). garnish with dough.
- Now bake in pre-heated oven 15 minutes at 200 Cº.
- For the filling in a sauce pan, put in cornflour, granulated sugar, and the lemon zest, add water and mix until you get homogeneous consistency. gradually add the lemon juice and water, bring to a boil at medium high heat, without stopping mixing. Cook 1 minute until you get homogeneous consistency and shiny.
- Remove from heat and add the egg yolks one by one, and the butter.
- immerse the bottom of the pan in cold water to stop the cooking.
- Spread the cream on top of the pie.
- For the meringue, beat the egg whites and add gradually the sugar into the mix.
- Finally brown it with a torch, and let it cold before serving.
Nutrition Information
Yield 6Amount Per Serving Calories 424Total Fat 19gSaturated Fat 11.6gFiber 0.9gSugar 57.7gProtein 5g
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