Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lemon curd. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Make sure you are constantly whisking as the mixture thickens. Lemon curd is such an easy thing to make and delicious on just about everything! It's sweet, tart Lemon curd is a tasty addition to many things.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon curd using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Curd:
- Make ready 4 lemons, washed if waxed
- Prepare 4 eggs
- Prepare 100 g butter
- Make ready 350 g caster sugar
Lemon curd is a popular condiment for afternoon tea and is used similarly to jam or custard. It is a sweet, tangy topping with a strong lemon taste (much stronger than, say, a lemon custard). Lemon curd isn't hard to make from scratch! The reward is a spread that's smooth, creamy, sweet, and tart.
Steps to make Lemon Curd:
- Carefully grate just the yellow zest from the lemons, avoiding the white pith. Cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice.
- Add the lemon zest, juice, sugar, butter and eggs to a heatproof bowl or to a large, heavy-based pan.
- Place the bowl on top of a simmering pan or boiling water, or place the pan on a low heat, gently whisking as it the butter melts and sugar dissolves.
- When the butter has melted and there's a little steam coming from the mixture, exchange the whisk for a wooden spoon. Keep stirring as the mixture slowly thickens. It takes a while, but the curd is ready when it sits on a plate and doesn't run. If you want to use the lemon curd as a cake filling, cook it for a little long as it will need to be stiff.
- Sieve the curd into a clean bowl, then transfer to clean jars. Store in the fridge. Spread on toast or pancakes or use as a filling with whipped cream for a Victoria sponge cake. We also love it as a dessert, stirred through Greek yogurt.
Lemon curd is great in cakes or pies, spread on scones, or licked right off the spoon. Enjoy this sweet, tart, velvety smooth cream on just about everything - from desserts to. This Lemon Curd recipe is super-easy to make on the stovetop, it's full of bright flavor, and it is perfect for cakes, cupcakes, crepes, spread on bagels and more! Learn how to make Lemon Curd at home. Fruit curd is a dessert spread and topping usually made with citrus fruit, such as lemon, lime, orange, or tangerine.
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