Name: Salzburger Nockerl (Sweet Austrian Soufflé)
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Austrian
Ingredients: 7 egg whites; 2 egg yolks; 1/2 cup caster sugar; 1 tbsp vanilla sugar; 1 1/2 tbsp flour; zest of 1/2 lemon lemon zest; as needed jam or custard sauce; as needed butter

Dessert

4 servings

205 cal/serving

Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 400°F.

Step 2

Whip the egg whites, gradually adding the caster sugar, until very stiff.

Egg whitesCaster sugar

Step 3

Quickly beat in the egg yolks, lemon zest, and vanilla sugar without beating too hard.

Egg yolksLemon zestVanilla sugar

Step 4

Carefully fold the flour into the mixture.

Flour

Step 5

Butter two oven-proof dishes and optionally line the bottoms with jam or custard.

ButterJam or custard sauce

Step 6

Heap three large dollops of the egg mass into the dish, slightly offset to form three 'mountains'.

Egg whitesEgg yolksCaster sugarVanilla sugarFlourLemon zest

Step 7

Bake for 10 minutes until the Nockerl are slightly brown on top.

Egg whitesEgg yolksCaster sugarVanilla sugarFlourLemon zest

This recipe is adapted from Wikibooks. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.