LOW-FAT CHRISTMAS PAVLOVA
Ingredients
- 5 medium free-range egg whites
- 150g/5½oz caster sugar
- 250g/9oz low-fat natural yoghurt
- 1 orange
- finely grated zest and 1 tbsp juice
- drop of almond extract
- pinch cinnamon
- 200g/7oz raspberries
- 50g/1¾oz flaked almonds
- toasted
- 1 square of dark chocolate
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 120C/100C Fan/Gas ½. Line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Whisk the egg whites in a clean glass bowl until soft peaks form. Add the sugar a teaspoon at a time and continue to whisk until you have stiff peaks and the meringue looks glossy.
- Arrange 8 large spoonfuls of the mixture in a circle on the prepared tray in a ring to form a wreath. Bake for 30 minutes
- then reduce the oven to 110C/90C Fan/Gas ¼ and bake for another 1½ hours.
- Turn off the oven
- leave the door ajar and leave until the meringues are cold.
- Just before serving
- make the topping. Mix together the yoghurt
- orange zest and juice
- almond extract and cinnamon.
- Top the meringue with the yoghurt mixture and then scatter over the raspberries and almonds. Finely grate over the chocolate and serve.

