STRAWBERRY MERINGUE ROULADE
Ingredients
- 5 egg whites
- 275g/10oz caster sugar
- 20g/2oz flaked almonds
- 150ml/5fl oz double cream
- 200ml/7fl oz Greek-style yoghurt
- 225g/8oz strawberries
- hulled
- icing sugar
- for dusting
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
- Grease a 33cm x 23cm/13in x 10in Swiss roll tin and line with baking paper.
- Whisk the egg whites in a clean
- large bowl with an electric mixer on high-speed until very stiff.
- Gradually add the sugar
- 1 teaspoon at a time and
- keeping the mixer on a high-speed
- whisk well between each addition. Whisk until very
- very stiff and glossy and all the sugar has been added.
- Spread the meringue mixture into the lined tin and sprinkle with the almonds. Put the tin in the oven and bake for about 8 minutes until golden.
- Lower the temperature to 160C/140C Fan/Gas 3 and bake for a further 15 minutes
- until crisp and firm to the touch.
- Remove the meringue from the oven and turn almond-side down onto a sheet of baking paper.
- Remove the paper from the base of the cooked meringue and allow to cool for 10 minutes.
- Lightly whip the cream and mix with the yoghurt. Spread evenly over the meringue.
- Cut the strawberries into quarters and sprinkle over the cream mixture.
- Roll up the meringue firmly
- using the paper to help you
- from the long end of the roulade. It is essential you keep the roll very tight. Wrap in baking paper and chill before serving.
- When you are ready to serve
- dust with icing sugar and cut into slices.

