APRICOT MERINGUE SURPRISE

Serves 2. If you prefer, try replacing the soft fruit with seasonal berries.

Ingredients:
15g brown bread crumbs
2 or 3 apricots
1 nectarine
1 peach
40g soft brown sugar
1 egg white
½ tsp ground nutmeg

How to:

• Skin and chop the fruit*
• Heat a non-stick frying pan and dry fry the bread crumbs and nutmeg until crisp
• Remove from the heat and fold through the fruit
• In a small greaseproof bowl whisk the egg white to stiff peaks
• Add half the sugar and whisk until stiff again
• Add the remaining sugar and whisk again
• With a metal spoon fold the meringue into the fruit mixture
• Divide between two small ramekins
• Bake in a pre-heated oven on gas mark 5 until golden brown

* For an easy way to skin the fruit, place them in a bowl and pour boiling water over the top. The skins should come away with ease.