Cooking 4 Fun: Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon meringue pie recipe

Find an easy Lemon meringue pie recipe on Kidspot's best recipe finder. This recipe tastes great raw and will have you liking the beaters.

Ingredients:

Base

·         Approx 12 digestive biscuits

·         80g butter, melted

Filling

·         1 can sweetened condensed milk

·         3 egg yolks

·         ½ cup lemon juice

        Zest from one lemon

Meringue

·         3 egg whites

·         ½ cup caster sugar

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C.

Put digestives into a ziplock bag. Crush the biscuits until they resemble breadcrumbs

Melt your butter and combine with biscuit crumbs. Press into greased pie tin and store in the fridge.

In a bowl, combine the condensed milk, egg yolks, lemon juice and zest. Ensure well combined and then pour over the biscuit base, ensure it's evenly coating the base.

Put in the oven for 10-15 mins, there should be a skin on the mixture when you take it out.

Meanwhile, whilst the pie is baking, whisk eggs with an electric beater on highest setting until it forms soft peaks. Gradually add the caster sugar and beat until you have achieved firm peaks.

When the pie is cooked, remove from the oven, but don't turn the oven off.

Pour the meringue mixture on and then spread to the sides with a spatula, make peaks with the spatula.

Put back into the oven for a further 10-12 minutes (keep watch on it) until the meringue turns a light golden brown on top.

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