Snow milk

Leche nevada

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Food and Cooking of Chile

By Boris Basso Benelli

Published 2014

  • About

This classic Chilean dessert is served cold and is really delicious. It owes its name to the little pillows of soft meringue, which resemble snow, that are placed on the lightly-set custard mixture, or ‘cooked milk’, as the Chileans call it.

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • 165 g/ oz/generous ¾ cup

Method

  1. First separate the eggs, putting the whites in a large, grease-free bowl and the yolks in a small bowl. Beat the whites until stiff peaks form, then beat in 15 ml/1 tbsp of the s

Energy 361kcal/1517kJ; Protein 12g; Carbohydrate 54g, of which sugars 52g; Fat 12g, of which saturates 6g; Cholesterol 205mg; Calcium 251mg; Fibre 0g; Sodium 148mg