Recipe: Yummy Italian Meringue

Italian Meringue.

You can cook Italian Meringue using 4 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Italian Meringue

1. You need 1 medium of Egg white.
2. Prepare 1 of few drops Lemon juice.
3. It’s 20 grams of Water.
4. It’s 60 grams of Sugar.

Italian Meringue instructions

1. Add a few drops of lemon juice to the egg whites (this will help the meringue firm up)..
2. Add some water to a pan followed by the sugar and heat over medium heat..
3. Once the mixture starts to bubble a little, start to whisk the egg whites..
4. Whisk with a hand mixer on a high speed until the mixer leaves a trail in the meringue. Time your whisking to coincide with the boiling of the syrup mixture. Don't stop whisking though..
5. Once the syrup reaches 118℃, remove from the heat and dribble into the mixture in thin threads..
6. Dribble it in so that it falls between to the 2 blades of the mixer, which should be set to a medium-high speed..
7. Once the syrup is in, keep whisking on a high speed until the mixture cools down..
8. Once the bottom of the bowl reaches body temperature, it's ready. The peaks of the meringue should hang down a little bit at this point..
9. Add the meringue to mousse or if you have some left over, pipe onto a baking tray and bake for 1 hour at 100℃ to get baked meringue..
10. For buttercream: Add 50 g unsalted butter to 30 g meringue It can be used for macarons and such..

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