Meringue-Topped Strawberry Rhubarb Cups

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Fruit crisps, cobblers and pies are fantastic summertime desserts that are delicious, successful nary tiny portion due to the fact that the toppings travel loaded with abdominous and calories. It’s not hard to slim them down by limiting the crumbs, barroom and pastry crusts, but sometimes that feels similar a atrocious compromise.

Another topping enactment is meringue. It’s airy and sweet, and it pairs good with fruity fillings beyond this strawberry-rhubarb combination.

You'll request 8 5-to-6-ounce ramekins for this recipe. They tin beryllium recovered successful the room departments of hardware stores and section stores, arsenic good arsenic astatine room stores.

The effect filling tin beryllium made a time up and reheated earlier being topped with the meringue. The assembled cups are champion served wrong an hr of baking. If you hold longer, the meringue pulls distant from the sides of the ramekins. The dessert inactive tastes good, but it doesn’t look arsenic attractive.

Based connected a look from "The Joy of Cooking," by Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, 1997); adapted by Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

For the filling

  • 3/4 lb trimmed rhubarb stalks, chopped into 1/2-inch pieces
  • 3/4 lb trimmed and hulled strawberries, tiny ones chopped successful half, mean ones chopped into quarters, larger ones chopped into eighths
  • 2/3 cupful sugar, oregon much to taste
  • 1/4 cupful water
  • 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed citrus juice
  • 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1/2 spoon vanilla extract

For the meringue

  • 1/2 cupful ovum whites (from astir 4 eggs), astatine country temperature
  • 1/4 spoon pick of tartar
  • 1/2 cupful sugar
  • 1/2 spoon vanilla extract

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    150

  • Carbohydrates

    37 g

  • Sodium

    25 mg

  • Protein

    2 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    32 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Based connected a look from "The Joy of Cooking," by Irma Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, 1997); adapted by Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published July 26, 2011

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Updated March 13, 2026

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