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ETON MESS

ETON MESS

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Serves: 4

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  • Express Recipe
  • Gluten Free
  • Nigella Recipe
  • Vegetarian

This recipe uses bottled fresh pomegranate juice to encourage the strawberries to ooze out their fragrant summery juices. If you're making this with out-of-season strawberries, then you stand a chance of using freshly squeezed pomegranate juice, in which case, sprinkle some seeds on top of this voluptuous mound of meringue and berryspiked cream.

A beautiful dessert for Spring and if you're looking for other seasonal inspiration, including Lamb Cutlets with Chilli and Black Olives or Tarragon Salmon, try these Spring Menu ideas. 

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Ingredients

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  • 500 grams strawberries
  • 2 teaspoons caster sugar (or vanilla sugar)
  • 2 teaspoons pomegranate juice
  • 500 ml whipping cream
  • 4 small meringue nests (from a packet)
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Method

  1. Hull and chop the strawberries and put into a bowl. Add the sugar and pomegranate juice and leave to macerate while you whip the cream.
  2. Whip the cream in a large bowl until thick but still soft.
  3. Roughly crumble in 4 meringues nests - you will need chunks for texture, as well as a little fine dust.
  4. Take out a ladleful, or about 100g / ½ cup, of the chopped strawberries, and fold the meringued cream and rest of the fruit mixture together.
  5. Arrange on four serving plates or glasses, or in a mound, and top each one with some of the remaining macerated strawberries.

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  • ...easy to do, low cost, simply delicious! Great Nigella! A warm hug from Italy, I'm one of your biggest fans, always seeing you on Gambero Rosso Channel!!! ;o)

    Posted by Pentolina on 11th May 2012 at 9.24

  • thank you for this wonderful delicious and easy to make dessert! such pamper as i took a long bath, watch comedy online, cuppa tea and huge bowl of eton mess!!! wonderful, much appreciate!

    Posted by cherylyeo25 on 22nd Sep 2012 at 22.39

  • I made Eton Mess using raspberries instead of strawberries..it was so delicious and refreshing.. it will become a regular on our dessert menu :)

    Posted by lezmcq on 10th Jan 2013 at 3.59

  • So lovely, so easy to make but so effective. Made this for my family yesterday and they all loved it and have already asked me to make it again! I added some vanilla ice cream into it and it was gorgeous. Can't wait to make it again! Thank you Nigella!

    Posted by Huma_C on 8th Apr 2013 at 18.40