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Healthier traditional pavlova

Next time you want a show-stopping pavlova, try topping with yoghurt instead of the higher fat cream alternative. Your waistline will love you for it!

  • Hands-on time: 20 mins
  • Time to make: 21 mins, plus 2 hours - overnight cooling
  • Serving: 8 people
Ratings: 4.1
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 3 egg whites
  • ¾ cup castor sugar
  • 1 teaspoon white vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons cornflour
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 2½ cups reduced-fat Greek-style or The Collective Skyr yoghurt
  • 3 cups mixed berries
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat oven to 150°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.

    2 In a large bowl, beat egg whites with an electric beater until soft peaks form. When ready, you should be able to hold the bowl upside down without the mix falling out. Beat in sugar, ¼ cup at a time, until mix is glossy and thick.

    3 With a large metal spoon, gently fold through vinegar, cornflour and vanilla.

    4 Spoon mix onto prepared baking tray, forming one large 20cm round pile or three smaller even ones, leaving enough room for the mix to spread a little. Place in the oven and reduce heat to 120°C. Cook for around 1 hour 10 minutes, until crisp on the outside. Turn oven off and leave pav in the oven to cool for 2 hours or overnight, with door slightly ajar. Decorate with yoghurt and berries and serve.

    HFG tip

    • For our desserts we normally set a limit on free sugars. But pavlova and meringue are always going to be higher in free sugars, there’s no way around it. So, keep that in mind and save these for a special occasion.
    • If you would normally use ¾ of a 300ml bottle of cream, whipped, as your pavlova topping, you’d have a whopping 11g sat fat per serve. Slash the saturated fat by using a low-fat Icelandic yoghurt or a low-fat thick Greek-style yoghurt.

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