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Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon Meringue Pie

Ingredients
  

Pie Shell

  • One Pate Sablée

Lemon curd

  • 3 Lemon + the zest of 1 lemon
  • 1/2 cup (125g) Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1/4 cup (75g) Butter
  • 1 tbsp Corn Starch

Meringue

  • 2 Egg whites
  • 1/3 cup (80g) Sugar

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven at 350F (180C).
    With a fork, make some wholes at the bottom of the pate sablée. Then bake the shell until golden brown, 20-25 minutes.
    Let cool down completely.
  • In a small sauce pan, bring the lemon juice and the lemon zests to a boil.
  • In a bowl, mix the eggs, sugar and corn starch.
  • Pour in the boiling lemon juice constantly mixing.
  • Put the mixture back on medium heat constantly mixing until the cream gets thicker.
  • Remove from heat and let it cool.
  • Add in the cubed butter little by little and mix well.
  • Fill up the shell with this lemon cream and refrigerate.
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the egg whites until it form soft peaks.
  • Add in the sugar and keep beating for 1 minute.
  • Scoop or pipe the meringue onto the lemon cream (once firm).
  • Using a torch, toast the top of the meringue.