How to make a Lemon Pie Home?

Lemon Pie

Required Ingredients:

- 0000 300 g flour
- Manteca 200 grams
- Sugar 100 grams
- Yolk 1 pc
- Fine salt: 1 pisca

For the filling:

- Yolks 4 units
- Milk 1/2 lt
- Juice of 1 lemon 200 cc
- Sugar 200 g
- Corn starch 60 g
-Manteca 1 tbsp
- Lemon zest

For the meringue:

- Claras 4 pcs
- Sugar 240 grams

Process

MAKING DOUGH

Beat butter with sugar ointment. Add the yolk and vanilla essence. Once you are well emulsified add the flour. Uniting all without amassing quickly set and freeze 15 minutes.

Roll out the dough and cover the mold.

COOKING DOUGH

Place on the mold plastic wrap covering the whole mass, placing a weight on top (can be beans, chickpeas, etc). Pricked with a fork cook for 15 minutes in a moderate oven until it is fully cooked.

MAKE THE CREAM

In a saucepan heat the milk with half the sugar. On the other hand, in a mixing bowl the remaining sugar with cornstarch. Mix well and add the egg yolks, juice and lemon zest. Once mixed add the hot milk and bring to cook all together always stirring. Cook until boil for a minute and remove from heat. Add the butter and cover with a film contact.

Once the lemon curd has cooled, cover the pie dough.

DO Frosting:

To make a Swiss meringue place in a bowl and add the 4 egg whites sugar 240grs. and put heat on low heat, stirring until the touch does not feel the fingers and sugar is made as a white foam.

Then put in blender and beat until meringue makes flakes with a firm tip.

ASSEMBLE THE LEMON PIE.

Place the filling into pie crust, and decorate with meringue sleeve by hillocks or just with a spoon to make a rustic decor.