Pistachio meringues with mango & mandarin ice cream

Name: Pistachio meringues with mango & mandarin ice cream
Prep time: 5 h 15 min
Cook time: 5 h 15 min
Total time: 5 h 15 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 large mango; 284 milliliters carton double cream; 4 Tbsps Cointreau or Grand Marnier; 115 grams icing sugar; 1 mandarin or clementine, juice and finely grated zest; 4 larges egg whites; 200 grams golden caster sugar; 50 grams shelled pistachio, chopped, plus extra to serve

The recipe Pistachio meringues with mango & mandarin ice cream can be made in about 5 hours and 15 minutes. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 358 calories, 4g of protein, and 16g of fat. Summer will be even more special with this recipe. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires mango, carton double cream, pistachio, and icing sugar. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and lacto ovo vegetarian diet. It works well as an affordable side dish.

Instructions

You can make the ice cream up to a month ahead. First, cut the skin from the mango with a sharp knife, cut the flesh from the stone and chop very finely.

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Ice Cream

Mango

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Knife

Whisk the cream, Cointreau, icing sugar, mandarin zest and juice together until it holds its shape. Fold in the mango. Tip the mixture into a rigid container and freeze for 3 hours until softly frozen, stirring once after 1 hours.

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Powdered Sugar

Cointreau

Mandarin Oranges

Cream

Juice

Mango

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Whisk

Meanwhile make the meringues. Preheat the oven to 120C/gas /fan 100C. Line 2 large baking sheets with baking parchment and draw 16 x 6cm circles, spaced well apart, on the sheets. (Use a jar lid measuring 6 cm across as a template.)

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Whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt until stiff.

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Egg Whites

Salt

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Whisk

Add half the caster sugar and whisk until glossy.

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Caster Sugar

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Whisk

Add the remaining sugar a tablespoon at a time while whisking. Fold in the nuts with a large metal spoon.

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Sugar

Nuts

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Whisk

Spoon the meringue on to the paper circles and spread to make even rounds.

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Spread

Bake for 1 hour, switching the trays round after 30 minutes. The meringues are ready when firm and sound hollow if tapped. Cool on the trays then peel off the paper.

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When the meringues are cool and the ice cream is softly frozen, sandwich the meringues together in pairs using the ice cream.

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Ice Cream

Put them into a container in a single layer and freeze, along with the leftover ice cream.

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Ice Cream

To serve, remove from the freezer and scatter with the extra chopped nuts.

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Nuts

Serve on plates and eat with forks.