Summer

Rhubarb Meringue Tart

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December  1, 2014
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Rhubarb Meringue Tart
  • Makes 1 tart
Author Notes

Inspired by lemon meringue pie, this rhubarb meringue tart is a light and rustic version fit for summer: wander-crush.com/2014/05/26/rhubarb-meringue-tart/ —Irina Wang (wandercrush)

What You'll Need
Ingredients
  • 75 grams rolled oats
  • 50 grams almond flour
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
  • ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoons salt
  • 2 sprigs rhubarb, chopped
  • 2 pears, chopped
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 4 egg whites
  • 150 grams unrefined sugar
  • 1 dash lemon juice
Directions
  1. Mix crust ingredients together into a ball, wrap loosely with a damp towel, and chill for about 30 minutes to make dough less crumbly.
  2. Preheat oven to 160ºC/325ºF. Press the chilled crust dough into the bottom of a pie dish. Pre-bake until slightly toasted, about 10 minutes.
  3. For the filling, stew rhubarb pieces in orange juice and honey, bringing to a boil and then lowering to a simmer until the reduction is slightly thickened. Add a pinch of cornflour/starch to thicken even more, if necessary.
  4. To make the meringue, whisk (you can do this by hand, but an electric mixer will be much quicker) room temperature egg whites in a very clean bowl—any trace of grease will make the job a lot harder, so avoid plastic. Once the mixture starts to become foamy and airy, add the sugar a little bit at a time and just a small squeeze of lemon juice, continuing to whisk until soft or stiff peaks are formed, depending on your preference.
  5. Spread the meringue evenly on top of the pie, starting at the edges and filling in towards the centre. Give it a final swirling flourish and return to the oven and bake for 10-15 minutes or until the meringue is crisp and turning golden. Let it dry out thoroughly after turning off the heat, letting it dehydrate with the oven door cracked as it cools. Serve within the same day.
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Jenifer O.
Jenifer O. June 24, 2019
This recipe needs some editing. The ingredients call for pears, but pears aren’t mentioned in the instructions. The instructions do tell you what to do with orange juice, but OJ isn’t listed in the ingredients, so it’s hard to know how much is required. Step 5 says to spread the meringue and return it to the oven. It’s not entirely clear whether there was an intermediary step in the oven in between baking the crust and spreading out the meringue. In the end, this was good, but I felt like I was working from guidelines rather than a recipe, and someone who hadn’t done much baking would have been lost.