Baked Lemon Meringue Pie

Reduce the stress on the big night with this delicious make-ahead lemon meringue pie.

The ingredient of Baked Lemon Meringue Pie

• 1 3 4 cups plain flour
• 1 2 cup almond meal ground almonds
• 1 3 cup icing sugar mixture
• 175g butter chilled chopped
• 2 egg yolks
• 2 tbsp iced water approximately
• 5 eggs lightly beaten
• 1 2 cup caster sugar
• 1 cup pure cream
• 2 tsp finely grated lemon rind
• 1 2 cup lemon juice
• 4 egg whites
• 1 cup caster sugar

The Instruction of baked lemon meringue pie

• process flour almond meal icing sugar and butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs add yolks and water process until dough just comes together turn out onto a lightly floured surface knead until just smooth shape into a disc wrap in plastic wrap refrigerate for 30 minutes
• preheat oven to 200u00b0c 180u00b0c fan forced grease a 4cm deep 23 5cm base round loose based fluted flan tin roll out pastry between 2 sheets of baking paper until 3mm thick line base and side of prepared pan with pastry trim edge refrigerate for 15 minutes
• place prepared tin on a baking tray line pastry case with baking paper fill with ceramic pie weights or uncooked rice bake for 10 minutes remove weights or rice and baking paper bake for 10 minutes or until light golden cool pastry case reduce oven temperature to 180u00b0c 160u00b0c fan forced
• make lemon filling whisk eggs sugar cream lemon rind and lemon juice in a bowl stand for 5 minutes pour mixture into pastry case bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until filling is just set cool for 15 minutes
• make meringue using an electric mixer beat egg whites until stiff peaks form gradually add sugar 1 tablespoon at a time beating constantly until sugar dissolves and mixture is thick and glossy spoon meringue over filling bake for 5 minutes or until meringue is golden see notes to freeze serve

Nutritions of Baked Lemon Meringue Pie

fatContent: 662 986 calories
saturatedFatContent: 37 grams fat
carbohydrateContent: 20 grams saturated fat
sugarContent: 69 grams carbohydrates
fibreContent: 47 grams sugar
proteinContent: n a
cholesterolContent: 12 grams protein
sodiumContent: 246 milligrams cholesterol

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