Light Meringues with Pomegranate & Pistachios {QSquared Giveaway}

These light meringues are topped with a lightly sweetened yogurt sauce, pomegranates and pistachios. Perfect for the holidays! Thank you to QSquared NYC for helping me to share this recipe with you.

As a kid, I used to love my grandmum’s meringue cookies. I would sit on the tall stool in her kitchen, watching her dollop the sweetened whipped egg whites onto baking sheets as I munched on crispy Bugles and dry-roasted peanuts, the snacks I got to eat only my grandparents’ house. Using her fingers, Grandmum would then poke chocolate chips or pieces of crystallized ginger into the pillowy unbaked meringues before sliding them into the oven.

While they baked in the just-warm oven for a couple of hours, I filled my time by categorizing my dad’s old marble collection (sparkly ones, colored ones and so on) or banging out Sound of Music songs on the old piano in the basement, checking back for a meringue status report every several minutes.

“Not yet, dear. You have a little while longer to wait,” Grandmum would patiently tell me.
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