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    Pistachio sponge with orange blossom yogurt

    • Vegetarian
    • Preparation time: 20 minutes
    • Cooking time: 20 minutes
    • Total time: 40 minutes

    Serves: 8

    Ingredients

    75g unsalted butter, melted,
    plus extra for greasing
    100g pistachio kernels
    4 medium Waitrose British Blacktail Free Range Eggs, separated
    100g golden caster sugar
    100g fine semolina
    ¼ tsp sea salt
    Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
    50g ‘no peel’ orange marmalade

    FOR THE SYRUP
    100g golden caster sugar
    1 tsp orange blossom water
    Juice of 2 lemons
    1 vanilla pod, split and
    seeds scrapped

    FOR THE YOGURT
    ½ tsp orange blossom water
    Finely grated zest of 1 orange
    300g Waitrose 1 Greek Natural Strained Yogurt

    TO SERVE
    25g pistachio kernels, finely chopped
     

    Method

    1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Grease and line the bases of 8 x 150ml pudding moulds with butter and baking parchment. Place the pistachios into a food processor and blitz until ground to a powder.

    2. Beat the egg yolks with the caster sugar in a stand mixer until light and creamy then, with the motor running, slowly add the ground pistachios and semolina, followed by the salt, melted butter, lemon zest and marmalade. Beat until smooth.

    3. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites until forming stiff peaks. Gently fold the whites into the nut mixture in three batches, to retain as much air as possible.

    4. Pour the batter into the prepared moulds and bake for 20 minutes until golden and a skewer inserted into the cakes comes out clean.

    5. Meanwhile, warm the syrup ingredients together in a pan with 100ml of cold water over a high heat. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes or until reduced and syrupy. Discard the vanilla pod.

    6. Remove the cakes from the oven and while still warm and in their tins, slowly pour half of the syrup over them. Leave the cakes to cool completely before turning out onto plates.

    7. Stir the orange blossom water and orange zest through the yogurt. Sprinkle the cakes with the chopped pistachios, drizzle with the remaining syrup and serve with the yogurt. 

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