Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie

Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie
Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, diner style lemon meringue pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook diner style lemon meringue pie using 22 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie:
  1. Take deep dish pie crust
  2. Make ready Filling:
  3. Make ready cornstarch
  4. Make ready granulated sugar
  5. Prepare salt
  6. Get Zest of 2 lemons
  7. Make ready water
  8. Prepare fresh lemon juice. See note
  9. Take butter not margarine
  10. Get egg yolks (keep whites for meringue)
  11. Make ready Mile High Meringue:
  12. Take egg whites
  13. Get granulated sugar
  14. Make ready salt
  15. Take vanilla extract
  16. Make ready Secret to no weep meringue:
  17. Make ready granulated sugar
  18. Get cornstarch
  19. Take water
  20. Prepare Note:
  21. Make ready I like mine slightly tart so I use 1/2 cup lemon juice
  22. Make ready Use 1/4 cup or to your preference for sweeter or tangier filling
Instructions to make Diner Style Lemon Meringue Pie:
  1. Make your own 9 inch crust or use frozen. Bake at 350 until light golden brown. Cool completely.
  2. In heavy bottom sauce pan, combine sugar, cornstarch and water. Stir until dissolved.
  3. Heat over medium heat,stirring often,until thick and bubbling slightly.
  4. Whisk egg yolks and add 3 spoons of hot thickened filling to temper eggs stirring constantly.
  5. Add butter, lemon zest, lemon juice and tempered eggs into thickened mixture and stirring constantly cook until mixture thickens more and bubbles slightly.
  6. Pour filling into pre baked crust. Set on wire rack to cool.
  7. Wash pan and add 2 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon cornstarch. Whisk.
  8. Stir in 1/2 cup water and cook until mixture thickens and starts to look like it is getting clear.
  9. Set aside to cool completely.
  10. Beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Add in the 4 tablespoons of sugar and vanilla.
  11. Beat to incorporate. Add the cooled mixture to egg whites and continue beating until stiff peaks form.
  12. Spread meringue over pie and with spoon slightly tap top and pull up to form small peaks.
  13. Brown in 350 degree oven until light brown.
  14. Cool completely and refrigerate covered in cake carrier so the meringue doesnt get messed up.
  15. Cool completely. I usually make mine a day ahead and let it chill overnight.

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