Get a big strainer and place it over a bowl.

Place on top of it a light cloth, a cheese muslin mesh would work too.

Add the yogurt

Bring edges together and tie it. Refrigerate over night. We are basically making our own greek style yogurt only much much MUCH cheaper.

Make sure your mixer bowl and whisks are very clean and grease-less.

When I make a recipe that calls for egg yolks only, I place the whites in a container, label the number of whites and the date and pop it in the freezer for a recipe like this one. Just thaw it :)

Put the egg whites

Beat on high untill very frothy, once it goes frothy, start adding the sugar very gradually.

It's done when it's thick and stiff like that.

Add 1/2 tsp of vanilla and beat

Add the vinegar and cornstarch, fold it in with a spatula

Scrape into a baking sheet lined with parchement paper. An 8 inch disk is a good size, don't make it perfect...and try to make a dent in the center.

Bake in a 250 F ( 130 C ) oven for an hour, then turn off the oven let it cool inside the oven with an ajar door.

It will crack, more beauty within its inperfection if you ask me :)

Add the icing sugar and 1/2 tso vanilla to what is now a very thick yogurt and mix. If you think it's too thick, add a but if the water that was strained from it or a but of milk.

Add the preserve. I'm using a soft set raspberry preserve.

Fold it in, don't over mix, you want those pretty pink streaks

Add to the pavlova, now the dent in the center makes sense to you :)

Dallop a tiny bit more of the preserve

Swirl it with clean fingers to make a marble effect

Add the berries

Dust with icing sugar and serve ;)

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How to make a low fat pavlova dessert :)

Though this won't give you a slimmer body, it surely wouldn't cause much harm! I use yogurt to top it off in place of whipped cream. The acidic flavor from the yogurt off-sets the sweetness very well.