Tender meringues are a favorite delicacy of many. Knowing how to cook meringues, you can pamper them with family and friends literally every night. A variety of recipes will provide a unique taste with a minimum change in basic components.

Classic meringues at home

The simplest classic version of this dish is easily performed even by a not very experienced hostess. To create it, you need a set of products that are constantly present in every kitchen.

It is enough to take only three eggs and sugar. The latter will need about a glass. Can be replaced with powdered sugar. It is better to use chilled eggs.

Before making meringues, you need to arm yourself only with the capacity in which the mass will be created, and with a mixer. If there is time, a whisk is used. Creating a tasty treat will take a little time, but the result will delight you with its taste.

Learn how to make meringues in the oven at home:

  1. A thorough separation of proteins from the yolks is carried out. Only the first ones will be required. They begin to beat. Mistresses of past centuries, using a whisk, recommended that the process be carried out in a stable mode, making rotational movements strictly in one direction. With a mixer, these rules have lost some relevance.
  2. Previously, the protein mass is whipped until a sufficiently thick foam appears. Next, it is worth starting to pour sugar or powder. This is done in small portions. Work continues until solid peaks appear.
  3. A special paper is put on a baking sheet and portions of it about one teaspoon in size are not precipitated.
  4. About meringue will reach readiness in a preheated oven for approximately three hours. The temperature should not exceed 100 degrees. The treat should dry well, but do not start to burn and change color from white to brownish.

They take out the baking sheet after cooling and serve refreshments to tea drinking.

How to steam

The original taste is obtained from a steamed dessert.

  1. At the first stage, you will also need to make meringues from three chilled proteins. To make the peaks harder, you can introduce a pinch of salt.
  2. Then the mass is whipped with a glass of sugar to steep peaks. But you will need to do this by putting the dishes in a pot of water.
  3. At this time, the water begins to boil and translates into a state of slow heating. The whipped mixture is removed from the water bath two minutes before the completion of the peaks preparation process. The mass will be very thick and saturated.
  4. Then it is laid out on baking paper and cleaned in the oven. Bake at a temperature of not more than 100 ºС for at least three hours. Finished products must dry completely during this period.

With condensed milk

Another option for the preparation of goodies, which can be included in the diet even for supporters of strict diets, is the preparation with condensed milk.

Calorie meringues are low. No wonder the meringue cake is named after the great ballerina Pavlova.

And although this applies less to the variant with condensed milk, such a dessert turns out to be especially tasty.

  1. First, meringues are made of three egg whites, into which a glass of granulated sugar is slowly introduced when whisking. The mass should be shiny and perfectly retaining the shape of the peaks.
  2. It is laid out in small portions on baking paper.
  3. Bake products for up to three hours. The oven heats up to 100 degrees.

While the delicious white products cool, they prepare a cream with condensed milk. To create it, you need to take one pack of good butter and one can of condensed milk.

  1. The oil is removed from the refrigerator, allowed to become soft and then they begin to whisk.
  2. After about 10 minutes, the oily mass will turn white and approximately double in size. Now condensed milk is poured into it and beat for another 10 minutes. The cream is thick and keeps its shape well.
  3. For the final formation of the dessert, two meringues are held together with cream. Keeping such a treat is better in the cold.

Cranberry Meringue

The calorie content of meringues with cranberries will appeal to every woman. This figure does not exceed 135 kcal per 100 grams, while It is worth considering that meringues are very light.

  1. Meringues are beaten from three egg whites and a glass of granulated sugar. The foam should be thick and elastic.
  2. It is laid out in small portions on baking paper.
  3. On each product put, a little indentation, one cranberry.
  4. The dish is baked for up to three hours. The temperature should be small, about 100 degrees, so that each portion is well dried.

In the microwave

When there is no stove with an oven, or when you need to set aside just a few minutes, you can choose a microwave to prepare your favorite treats. Moreover, the number of products becomes minimal - you need only one protein. 300 grams of powdered sugar is added to it.

The cooking steps are simple:

  1. Separate the protein.
  2. Mix it into a single mass with powder.
  3. Roll up round balls.
  4. Put them on a plate at least five centimeters apart.
  5. Put the blanks in the microwave and cook at maximum power for one and a half minutes.

You should carefully monitor the process. The exact period is determined independently, "by eye" by changing the size of the dessert. As soon as the meringue is approximately doubled, it will take no more than 30 seconds to dry its middle.

Chocolate Meringue at Home

A real holiday treat will be chocolate meringues, cooked at home. In order to create such a dessert, when whipping three egg whites with a glass of sugar in a steaming foam, two tablespoons of cocoa powder are additionally introduced. You can add grated chocolate.

 

Bake items in the oven. It will take at a temperature of 100 degrees up to three hours.The delicacy will be even tastier if, before sending meringues to the oven, they are also sprinkled with chocolate crumbs.

Cooking a Wet Dessert

A “wet” delicacy in consistency resembles a delicious and delicate cream. With it, it’s convenient to decorate cakes, but you can and just eat it separately from the pans.

  1. At the water base, beat three egg whites into which sugar is slowly introduced. It will take about one glass. Citric acid is added to improve the taste. Vanillin is also often administered.
  2. It is not necessary to bake the resulting mass. She already warms up in a water bath during the creation of meringues with steep peaks.
  3. The resulting mass is allowed to cool and transferred to a culinary syringe. With its help, original forms of jewelry in the form of roses or even congratulatory inscriptions will be created.

Such a dessert is decorated with chocolate. It is very tasty with the addition of berries.

Meringue on a stick

Parents often think what to offer the baby instead of the unhealthy sweets with which store shelves are clogged. The best choice is to cook meringue on a stick.

To prepare it, meringues are performed. For this:

  1. Three egg whites slowly beat with a glass of granulated sugar. The foam should be very thick. The degree of its readiness is easy to verify by trying to turn the container over - the shape of the protein mass should be preserved.
  2. Sticks are pre-cooked. You can use wooden skewers. The main thing is that they do not melt under the influence of high temperature.
  3. Using a pastry syringe, original and beautiful forms are laid out on baking paper. Sticks are inserted into them and the dessert is allowed to dry well in the oven. This will take up to three hours at a temperature of 100 degrees. The delicacy should dry well outside.

No matter how simple the dessert recipe may be, simpler than meringues, perhaps, is nothing. It is tasty, not high-calorie and beautiful. Cook with pleasure!

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