Banana, Passion Fruit and Cardamom Meringue Pie

Name: Banana, Passion Fruit and Cardamom Meringue Pie
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: whites of 2 large eggs; ½ teaspoon salt; 75 g/3 oz light muscovado sugar; 4-5 wrinkled passion fruit; 6 medium bananas; 25 g/1 oz butter; 2 limes; 8 cardamom pods; 100 g/4 oz caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

For a Sunday lunch on a cold English day this hot pudding is a great reminder of warm sunshine. The exotic aroma of cardamom enhances both fruit and meringue in the most exquisite way. Serve with crème fraîche, cream or Greek-style yoghurt.

Ingredients

2 limes
8 cardamom pods
6 medium bananas
25

Dessert
Gluten-free
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Squeeze the juice out of the limes and keep on one side. Extract the seeds from the cardamom pods and grind either with a pestle and mortar or in a coffee grinder. Peel the bananas, cut in half crossways and then cut each half in half again lengthways.

Melt the butter in a fairly large, deep frying pan over a medium heat, add half the ground cardamom and stir around for about 2 minutes.