Leftover egg whites: 3 recipes to use them

Sep 16 2022, 10:22 | by Michela Becchi
From Angel cake to meringue, there are lots of recipes to try if you have leftover egg whites. Here are three ideas.

Egg whites recipes

If you like baking, you’ll probably end up with extra egg whites at some point. These leftovers are very useful in the kitchen: you can make egg white wraps or tortillas, you can use them for a light egg wash for your pies or to make soft and fluffy desserts such as Angel Cake. Here are 3 recipes to try if you have leftover egg whites.

Lingue di gatto

Cat’s tongue: here’s the meaning of Italian lingue di gatto, a biscuit widespread throughout Italy and some European countries, probably born in Paris in Roaring Twenties thanks to a fan of Charles Perrault, the author of the Puss in Boots fairy-tale (hence the name).

Ingredients

60 g flour

60 g butter

60 g icing sugar

2 egg whites, room temperature

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Preheat the oven at 200°C. whisk the butter with the icing sugar and the vanilla extract untili it becomes fluffy. Lightly beat the egg whites (not stiff) and add them to the buttery mixture. Add the flour, then line a tray with baking paper. Put the mixture in a pastry bag and create the biscuits. Cook the biscuits for about 8 minutes and remove them with a spatula to let them cool.

Find out more about meringue

Meringue

Foamy and snow-white, meringue is a fundamental preparation in pastry art, and by no means obvious: making perfect meringue requires patience and precision, but the result will be worth the effort.

Ingredients

4 egg whites

100 g sugar

100 g icing sugar

1 teaspoon of lemon juice

1 pinch of salt

Butter

Flour

Sift the icing sugar. Add a pinch of salt to the egg whites and start beating them. Add the sugar while beating until stiff. Keep whisking the egg whites and add the icing sugar, one teaspoon at a time. Put the egg mixture in a pastry bag and create the meringues. Cook them at 90/100°C for 3 to 4 hours. Serve them with some whipped cream.

Brutti ma buoni

The name literally means “ugly but good”: in fact, these crunchy biscuits do not look so well but they are, indeed, very tasty. The origin of the recipe is from Piedmont and in particular, the bakers of the royal House of Savoy.

Ingredients

150 g hazelnuts

150 g sugar

50 g egg whites

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Toast the hazelnuts in a pan, then add them in a mixer with sugar and vanilla. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt, then add them to the other ingredients. Pour the mixture in a hot pan until it becomes light brown. Place the biscuits in a baking tray and cook at 165°C for about 15 minutes.

by Michela Becchi

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