Serves: 4
Lime meringues
Ingredients
140 gm egg whites
Pinch of salt
140 gm caster sugar
140 gm icing sugar, sieved
3 tsp corn flour
2 limes, zested
Method
Preheat oven to 100C. Whisk egg whites and salt in an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Whisking continuously, add caster sugar until thick and glossy. Fold in icing sugar and corn flour followed by lime zest then spoon into large mounds on baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake until crisp but not coloured (1-1¼ hours), turn off oven and cool completely.
Bowen mango Eton mess
Ingredients
3 mangoes
Juice of 2 limes
500ml Greek yoghurt
500ml thickened cream
75gm icing sugar, sieved
1 tsp vanilla bean paste
2 tbs native lime
Method
Remove cheeks from mango and scoop out flesh with a large kitchen spoon. Also, remove all the flesh from around the stones. Process half the mango and lime juice until smooth and set aside. Thickly slice remaining mangoes and set aside. Next whisk cream, sugar and vanilla to soft peaks, add yoghurt and give a further whisk to soft peaks. Layer yoghurt cream, mango puree, fresh mango, crushed meringues and native lime in glasses. Drizzle with any remaining mango puree and native lime
