Apple pie with meringue: fragrant tenderness

Apple pie recipes are amazing in theirvariety. Indeed, their main component is available to every housewife almost all year round. And you are always ready to meet unexpected guests, quickly putting a fragrant charlotte or shortbread pie in the oven. And when friends enjoy homemade baked goods of your making and unanimously admire the skill of the housewife, you smile modestly, keeping silent about the simplicity of the dish. And really, what could be easier than making a pie with apple filling? Moreover, even serving a regular charlotte can be played up in the most original way. Rosemary leaves, melted chocolate, creamy ice cream, powdered sugar, jam and cocoa will always help you decorate this simple dish. But sometimes you want to please your loved ones with something truly new and unusual. At the same time, the taste should exceed everything, even the wildest expectations. You start leafing through cookbooks, sorting through complicated recipes, regretfully looking at the contents of the cupboards and refrigerator, not finding the necessary ingredients, and you don’t even guess what an amazing dessert can be made from the same apples and a trivial set of products that every housewife always has at hand. And as always, it will please you with its simplicity, and those around you will be delighted again. So, hit two targets at once by making an apple pie with meringue!

Delicate pie with apple filling and meringue

This dish is simply magnificent - withmultifaceted taste, light, soft and simply melting in the mouth. All this is achieved thanks to the unusual combination of shortcrust crumbly dough, delicate apple filling and the most delicate, simply airy, meringue. If you have never cooked anything like this before, then you definitely need to try it. Well, are you ready to please and surprise? Then quickly study the recipe and start baking an amazing pie! Ingredients:

Butter - 200 grams
wheat flour - 2 cups
eggs - 3 pieces
granulated sugar - 3/4 cup
powdered sugar - 3/4 cup
apples large - 3 pieces
baking powder - 0.5 teaspoon

Method of preparation:As usual, let's start working on the dough first. Separate the yolks from the whites, and be sure to put the whites in the refrigerator. You'll need them for the meringue, so they should be chilled. Beat the yolks with sugar a little. Put flour in a separate container and chop the butter with a knife. Now add the baking powder and combine everything with the yolks. The dough should be moist, thick and viscous. Now get to the filling. It's better to peel the apples first, this will make the pie even more tender. Although, if you're in a hurry, you can use the fruit with the peel - the main thing is that it's not tough. Since the filling should be as uniform as possible, grate the apples on a coarse grater. Take a springform pan, grease it with butter and spread the dough over it with your hands, forming high sides. Place the apple filling on top and put it all in the oven, preheated to 180° C, for 15 minutes. While the pie base is baking, prepare the last and most important component, which gives the dessert its originality — the meringue. To do this, take the egg whites out of the refrigerator and start whipping them with a mixer, gradually adding powdered sugar. As a rule, a good consistency of the mass is achieved after 10 minutes. Do you know how to check if the meringue is whipped enough? Turn the container with it over, and if not a drop spills, then everything turned out perfectly. But this method is quite risky, so just make sure that the protein-sugar mass, when stirred, forms sharp peaks. Now take the blank with the apple filling out of the oven and use a spatula to put the meringue on it. Smooth it out well and bake again at the same temperature. You can tell the pie is ready by the appearance of a brownish crust on the surface of the meringue. It is likely that this process will take 15-20 minutes. Turn off the oven and, so that the protein mass does not fall, let the pie cool without taking it out. Then carefully run a knife along the perimeter of the pan, separating the edges of the pastry from its sides. Remove the removable part, cut the pie into pieces and serve.

Apple pie with meringue and chocolate

Baked goods made with this turn out incredibly deliciousapple filling, if you add one interesting touch - chocolate glaze. This option is quite suitable for preparing a dessert for any family celebration, for example, your child's birthday. After all, children love chocolate, so they will appreciate such a birthday cake. And an ordinary Sunday morning, started with a cup of aromatic tea or strong coffee, can become a real holiday if you add a piece of apple dessert with meringue and chocolate to the drink. Ingredients:

Butter - 250 grams

wheat flour - 2 cups
sugar - 300 grams
eggs - three pieces
soda - 0.5 teaspoon
salt - a pinch
tile of dark chocolate

Method of preparation:First, prepare the dough. Separate the yolks from the whites, mix them with 200 grams of pre-softened butter and 150 grams of granulated sugar, add salt and soda (do not extinguish the latter). Pour in the flour gradually, mixing everything thoroughly. Separate a third of the finished dough and put it in the freezer for about an hour. Do not forget to immediately put the whites in the refrigerator, so the meringue will whip up faster. Now prepare the apple filling. Peel them, chop finely or grate on a coarse grater. Take a baking pan or a regular baking sheet with sides, grease it with butter and evenly distribute the dough with your hands, covering the entire surface. If the baking container is small, the meringue layer will be higher, and vice versa. But it will be delicious in both cases. Put the apple filling on top of the dough. Take the cooled egg whites and beat them into a stiff foam together with 150 grams of sugar. Carefully spread the meringue mixture over the apple filling. Now take the frozen part of the dough out of the freezer and grate it on a coarse grater, covering the entire pie with shavings. That's it, you can put the dessert in the oven, the temperature of which should be 180 ° C. You will have to bake for 30-40 minutes. While the pie is cooling, prepare the glaze. Take a bar of dark chocolate, break it into pieces and melt in a water bath. Then add 50 grams of butter. This will give the glaze a beautiful shine. Transfer the pie to a large plate or dish. Just don't think about turning it over, otherwise you will ruin all the beauty. Draw a chocolate mesh on top or just pour chocolate over the pie. By the way, you can additionally decorate it with almond shavings or walnut crumbs.

Jewish apple pie with meringue

The cuisine of every country in the world has its own characteristics.They are especially common in the preparation of sweet dishes. Apple pies are no exception. If you like juicy pastries, then be sure to use the recipe of one Israeli pastry chef. He suggests making a pie with apples and meringue, adding unusual notes of chocolate and lemon to it. The special charm of this pastry is that you can catch the taste of each of its layers - both the thin shortcrust pastry, and the delicate apple filling, and the airy meringue layer. And the chocolate-lemon shade will harmoniously combine all this together. Ingredients:

sour cream 20% fat content - 2 tablespoons
butter - 150 grams + 20 grams of melted
eggs - 4 pieces
wheat flour - 2 cups
Sugar sand - 2/3 cups + 7 tablespoons
water - 0.5 cups
Vanillin - 1 gram
apples green - 1 kilogram
lemon - 1 piece
lemon acid
starch - 1 tablespoon
salt - a pinch
baking powder - 1 teaspoon
tile of dark chocolate

Method of preparation:Separate the yolks from the whites, combine them with 2/3 cup of sugar, add sour cream, salt, vanilla and baking powder. Make a greasy crumble from 150 grams of butter and flour, mix it with the yolk mass and knead an elastic smooth shortcrust pastry. Cover it with a towel and leave for 15-20 minutes. This is what all confectioners do, because the dough needs to “rest”. Take a one-piece baking pan with deep sides, grease it with butter. Divide the dough into two unequal parts, spreading the larger one evenly over the pan with your hands. If you want to make beautiful edges of the future pie, slightly resembling a basket, then roll small “sausages” from the remaining mass. Place them along the perimeter of the baking container, using your fingers to form sides of the same thickness and connect them to the base. Decorate the edges with a regular fork, lightly pressing its tines on the edges of the dough. Take another smaller pan, grease its bottom with butter and place it on the dough. Put it all in the oven at 180° C and bake for about half an hour. Take out the finished pie base, remove the upper pan. Cover the dough with beaten yolk, sprinkle with chopped chocolate and put it back in the oven for 3 minutes. This will prevent the base from getting wet under the filling. Peel the washed apples, cut into large cubes, and put them in a saucepan. Add water, 3 tablespoons of sugar and the zest of one lemon. Boil the filling for 7-8 minutes, until transparent. Then discard in a colander, letting excess liquid drain. Squeeze out the lemon juice, mix it with melted butter and starch and combine with the boiled apples. Put the resulting filling on the dough. Beat the chilled whites of three eggs, 4 tablespoons of sugar and citric acid on the tip of a knife into a stiff foam and cover the future pie with snow-white "towers" using a pastry syringe or a culinary bag. Put the dessert in the oven and bake at 180° C for about 10 minutes. Such an unusual pie will definitely not leave you and your loved ones indifferent. And if you sprinkle it with grated chocolate, then there will be no limit to delight. Of course, there are a great many recipes that involve the presence of apple filling. You can bake a grated pie with jam, bulk, the well-known French "Tatin" or upside-down, puff pastry and so on. But for those who really love the taste of tenderness, baking with apples and meringue will be a real find. Whipped protein foam will give even the most ordinary homemade pie a touch of originality and lightness. And the temptation to eat an extra piece of the aromatic dessert will be so great that thoughts about a slim figure will dissolve in a haze of exciting anticipation. After all, you really want to experience the pleasure of a delicacy melting in your mouth once again!