Dessert
Little lemon meringue tart
Easy
165 min
6 Portions
Ingredients:
For the lemon cream
For the meringue
PREPARATION
Pour the flour in a bowl with some cold butter cut in pieces, a pinch of salt and some sugar. Mix the compound gently.
Subsequently add the egg and knead well. Form a little dough and wrap it in transparent film, by putting it in the fridge for about 30 minutes.
After this time, roll the previously prepared shortcrust and form some circles by preparing some little tarts. Pierce the base and cover each of them with some baking paper. Place them in preheated oven at 190°C for 20 minutes. Once they are golden, extract them from the oven and let the cool down.
Separate the white eggs from the yolks. In a bowl mix the yolks with some sugar and the corn starch. Add the lemon zest, the lemon juice and some water.
Mix until you obtain a homogenous compound. Now let the cream cook by using the bain-marie technique. When the cream will be dense, add some butter and mix it well.
Now let it cool down until you will use it.
Beat the white eggs with a pinch of salt.
In a little pan pour some sugar and water and put it on the stove on low heat, by melting the sugar and making it boil at 121°C.
At this point, with the whisks at maximum power pour the syrup at 121°C in the previously whipped white eggs mixture. Now continue whipping until the meringue cools down.
At this point, take the previously prepared tart bases and in each of them with the help of a sac à poche pour the lemon cream and the meringue.
Now place the little tarts in oven at 180°C for about 6-8 minutes. When the meringue will be golden, take the little tarts out of the oven and let them cool down.
Pour the sweets in fridge for at least 2 hours before serving them.