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Clementine meringue pie with olive oil crust

a French girl cuisine
Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

Olive oil crust

  • 200 gr. of flour
  • 4 tablespoons 60 ml. of olive oil
  • 1 egg
  • 30 gr. of sugar
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons of water

Clementine curd

  • 3 clementines juiced
  • 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
  • 120 gr. of sugar
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 egg
  • 15 gr. of flour
  • 4 tablespoons of olive oil

Meringue

  • 3 egg whites
  • 180 gr. of sugar
  • 50 gr. of water

Tools

  • baking paper
  • cooking beads
  • kitchen blowtorch

Instructions
 

  • Add flour and sugar in a mixing bowl. Make a hole and add, egg, olive oil and water. Mix using your hands until you get a homogeneous dough. Roll out dough finely, put in your pie plate and refrigerate 30 minutes.
  • Bring to a boil lemon and clementine juice with 1/2 of sugar (60 gr.). In the meantime, beat egg yolk with whole egg, flour and rest of sugar. When juice is boiling, pour half on top of the egg mixture, whisk quickly and pour on top of what's left of the juice. Cook another few minutes, until you see the first bubbles. The cream is ready. Remove from the heat and add while mixing olive oil. Reserve and leave to cool.
  • Preheat oven to 200°C. Remove the crust from the refrigerator, prick with a fork, cover with baking paper and add some cooking beads. Bake for 8 minutes. Remove carefully from your pie plate and bake another 4 minutes for a golden crust ! Pour clementine curd and reserve.
  • Bring to a boil water and sugar. As soon as boiling, time 3 minutes and remove from heat or when the sirup reach 110°C. In the meantime, beat egg whites and pour sirup little by little until you get a homogeneous and shiny mixture. Then this is ready.
  • Cover the pie with meringue using a spatula or a spoon handle. Strocke the flame of the blowtorch over the meringue until it browns and serve.