Name: Banana meringue pie (Torta de banana)
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Brazilian
Ingredients: 225 g/8 oz/1 cup caster (superfine) sugar; 5 ml/1 tsp vanilla extract; 4 egg whites; 5 ml/1 tsp butter; 4 egg yolks; 565 g/1 lb 4½ oz/generous 2½ cups caster (superfine) sugar; 400 ml/14 fl oz/2⅓ cups sweetened condensed milk; 5 ml/1 tsp grated lime zest; 120 ml/4 fl oz/½ cup cold water; 6 medium ripe bananas, cut into 2.5cm/1in thick slices; 45 ml/3 tbsp cornflour (cornstarch); 600 ml/1 pint/2½ cups full-fat (whole) milk

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food and Cooking of Brazil

By Fernando Farah

Published 2011

About

Brazilians are banana connoisseurs, choosing from a wide variety of types available on any fruit stall to create a myriad of different dessert and main course dishes. This triple-layered dessert is a luxurious way to enjoy the very popular banana prata (silver banana), the most popular banana in Brazil; it is similar in flavour, but slightly shorter and fatter, to the Cavendish banana, the usual exported variety.