Name: Mini pistachio & chocolate macaroons
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Makes about 30 bite-size
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 140g pistachio; 250g icing sugar; 2 egg whites; 100g low-fat soft cheese; 25g 70% cocoa dark chocolate

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Mini pistachio & chocolate macaroons

Mini pistachio & chocolate macaroons

Jane Hornby

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Makes about 30 bite-size

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Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 15 mins

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Re-create memories of romantic Paris with these melt-in-the-mouth macaroons

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Ingredients

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140g pistachio
250g icing sugar
2 egg whites

For the filling

100g low-fat soft cheese
25g 70% cocoa dark chocolate

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal71
fat3g
saturates1g
carbs10g
sugars10g
fibre0g
protein2g
salt0.05g

low

Method

step 1

Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140/gas 3.
step 2

Whizz the pistachios and 25g of the icing sugar in a food processor until fine. Mix with 175g more icing sugar in a large bowl. Whisk the egg whites until stiff, add the remaining 50g icing sugar and whisk again until thick and glossy. Fold into the nut mix. Spoon into a piping bag with a 1cm nozzle and pipe out 10p-coin-size blobs of mixture, well spaced. Poke any pointy tops down with a wet finger. If you don’t have a piping bag, just snip the end off a sandwich bag and use that instead.
step 3

Leave to dry for 30 mins, then bake for 12- 15 mins until risen. Cool on the paper. Beat the cream cheese with the chocolate and use to sandwich the macaroons together. Will keep for 1 day filled, or up to 3 days unfilled, stored in an airtight container.

RECIPE TIPS

DELICATE VANILLA MACAROONS

Mix 140g ground almonds with 200g icing sugar and rub in seeds from 1 vanilla pod. Whisk the egg whites. Once stiff, add 50g icing sugar, then whisk again. Sandwich together with a little dulce de leche.

CHEWY CHOCOLATE MACAROONS

Mix 140g ground almonds with 175g icing sugar and 25g cocoa powder. Whisk the egg whites. Once stiff, add 50g icing sugar, then whisk again. For a coffee filling, mix the soft cheese with ½ tsp instant coffee dissolved in a few drops boiling water.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2008

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