Apple compote with cookie meringue

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Peel, quarter, core and dice apples. Mix immediately in a pot with lemon juice. Add 50 g sugar, vanilla sugar and apple juice. Bring to the boil covered and simmer over a low heat for about 5 minutes until the apples are soft but not yet crushed.

2. 2

   Pour into an ovenproof dish and let it cool down.

3. 3

   In the meantime, roughly chop the cookies for the meringue. Beat the egg whites until stiff, adding 1 pinch of salt and 100 g sugar. Continue beating until the sugar has dissolved and the beaten egg white is firm enough to cut, i.e. if it can be cut with a knife.

4. 4

   Fold in cookies. Spread loosely on the apple compote. Brown very briefly with a kitchen gas burner or under the hot oven grill. Dust with icing sugar.