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Chilean Pie de Limón Lemon Meringue

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My family’s recipe, easy and delicious.

  • Total Time: 1 hour
  • Yield: 10

Ingredients

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Dough:

  • 125 grams butter, room temperature
  • 3 tablespoons confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups regular flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 pinch of salt

filling:

  • 2 cans sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 1/4 cup lemon juice, strained
  • lemon zest

meringue:

  • 4 egg whites at room temperature
  • 1 cup granulated sugar

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven at 180C or 350F.
  2. Butter an 11″ removable bottom quiche or tart pan (affiliate link).
  3. In a bowl, beat the butter and confectioner’s sugar for 5 minutes until creamy. Add egg and stir to combine. Add flour, salt, and baking powder and beat until crumbles form. Keep working it using your hands until the dough is soft.Flour for dough Dough for the pie
  4. Make a disc and extend over a form compressing the dough with your knuckles until the base and the walls are covered.
    Raw dough on a pie tart
  5. Bake for 15-20 minutes until it is slightly golden.
    Baked tart dough
  6. While the dough bakes, mix condensed milk with lemon juice and lemon zest. Stir until combined –you need to be patient as this may take some time.
    Ingredients for the lemon filling Mixed lemon juice and condensed milk filling ready
  7. Remove the cooked dough and pour the lemon- condensed milk mixture over the warm dough.
    Filling on the baked dough
  8. Prepare a water bath in a large pot. Boil 5cm water.
  9. Prepare the meringue. Use a clean un bowl (I use my KitchenAid’s) that you can place over the pot of boiling water without touching the water. Mix the egg whites with sugar and beat with a wired beater. Place over the water bath and constantly beat until sugar dissolves; it’s quick, about 3-5 minutes. The easiest way of checking is to take some of the egg whites between the fingers; you should not feel any grains.
  10. Remove from Bain Marie and beat the egg whites with the hand mixer at maximum speed until the mix cools and the meringue is white, bright, and firm. You can put the meringue in a piping bag with a star tip (use the largest you have) and make whatever design you like.
    adding the meringue meringue covering the lemon pie
  11. Brown in the oven at 180C (keep an eye on it continuously, it’s quick 5-8 minutes) or burn with a kitchen torch as I did.
  12. Serve cold; you can refrigerate overnight unmolded.
    Chilean Lemon Meringue Pie
  • Author: Pilar Hernandez
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Category: Pie
  • Method: Baked
  • Cuisine: Chilean

Nutrition

  • Serving Size:
  • Calories: 547
  • Sugar: 66.8 g
  • Sodium: 367.4 mg
  • Fat: 17.9 g
  • Saturated Fat: 10.9 g
  • Carbohydrates: 88.3 g
  • Fiber: 0.9 g
  • Protein: 11.2 g

Find it online: https://www.chileanfoodandgarden.com/chilean-lemon-meringue-pie/