Tarte Merengada de Limão
This lemon meringue pie is a delicious dessert. Ideal for those with a sweet tooth, it is very easy to make and is ready in just half an hour. Enjoy!
- Category: desserts
- Time: 20 min
Source: https://publicdomainrecipes.com/tarte-merengada/ — magikarp-salesman · publicdomainrecipes.com
Ingredients
- buttered cookies (shortcake) — 200 g
- margarine — 80 g
- can of condensed milk (370g) — 1 pcs
- / 4 lemons ( 1 dl of juice + the outer scrapings ) — 3 pcs
- eggs — 5 pcs
- sugar — 150 g
Steps
- Pre-heat the oven to 220ºC.
- Separate the yolk from the egg whites and mix the yolks with the condensed milk into whipped cream.
- Meanwhile mash the cookies into a powder and mix it with the margarine while covering the bottom and sides of a pie dish.
- Take the outer scrapings of a lemon with a gratter and squeeze the juice of all the lemons.
- Mix the scrappings and the juice with the yolk and add to the pie dish.
- Take it to the oven.
- Meanwhile mix the egg whites until they start to foam, add the sugar then and keep mixing them until the meringe starts to be firm.
- After 10 to 15 minutes in the oven, cover the surface of the pie with small dumpings of meringe with a spoon.
- Reduce the heat of the oven to 160ºC and put the pie back into the oven until the meringe on top becomes golden brown.