Pecan toffee meringue with mulled pears

Name: Pecan toffee meringue with mulled pears
Prep time: 1 h 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 600 milliliters mulled wine, ready made from a bottle; 6 smalls ripe, shapely pears, peeled, quartered and cored; 50 grams golden caster sugar; 225 grams golden caster sugar; 2 teaspoons cornflour; 4 larges egg whites; 2 teaspoons wine vinegar; 50 grams pecan, roughly chopped; 500 grams Greek yogurt; 4 Tbsps dulce de leche (we used Merchant Gourmet)

The recipe Pecan toffee meringue with mulled pears can be made in roughly 1 hour and 40 minutes. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 346 calories, 9g of protein, and 5g of fat. A mixture of dulce de leche, egg whites, cornflour, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and lacto ovo vegetarian diet. If you like this recipe, you might also like recipes such as Mulled Pears and Apples, Red cabbage with mulled Port & pears, and Pears & prunes in mulled (well, sort of) wine.

Instructions

Put the wine, pears and sugar in a pan and simmer for 10 mins.

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Pear

Sugar

Wine

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Frying Pan

Heat oven to 160C/140C/gas

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Oven

Draw a 25cm circle on a sheet of baking parchment, then put on a baking sheet. Stir 225g sugar and cornflour together in a jug.

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Corn Starch

Sugar

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Baking Sheet

Whisk the egg whites until stiff, then whisk in the sugar mixture, a tbsp at a time, until thick and glossy.

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Egg Whites

Sugar

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Whisk

Fold in vinegar and half the nuts, then pile mixture onto the circle, building up the edges to make a nest. Scatter with rest of pecans then put in oven, turning the temperature down to 150C/fan 130C/gas

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Vinegar