Brown the butter lightly
Heat butter until foaming and the first milk solids turn pale gold. Pour into a bowl and cool for 8 minutes.

Tender lemon-almond cakes with crisp little edges and raspberries that sink, split and stain each one differently. A sensible one-friand low-FODMAP serve.

Monash includes lemon-raspberry friands in its low-FODMAP recipe collection. This original version keeps the classic almond-and-egg-white structure, with one cake as the intended serve and fruit distributed naturally rather than symmetrically.
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Heat butter until foaming and the first milk solids turn pale gold. Pour into a bowl and cool for 8 minutes.
Heat the oven to 190°C. Stir almond meal, sugar, rice flour, lemon zest and salt.
Whisk egg whites until frothy but nowhere near peaks. Fold into the dry mixture, then fold in warm butter.
Divide between 12 greased friand or muffin holes. Press one or two naturally varied raspberry pieces into each.
Bake for 18 to 23 minutes until the edges are golden and centres spring back. Cool for 8 minutes before lifting out.
Energy1,240 kJ
Protein6 g
Carbohydrate21 g
Fibre3 g
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