Lemon Curd Recipe

I saw this recipe in one of the cooking show in Food Food. Instantly loved it. I had some leftover pastry from my custard tart, i used it to make small tart shells and filled it with this lemon curd. It was delicious..

Hope you will try this out and let me know how it turns out for you..

Preparation Time : 10 mins

Cooking Time : 5 to 8 mins

Makes : 1 cup

Ingredients:

Sugar - 1/4 cup / 50 grams

Lemon - 3 tblspn

Soft Unsalted Butter - 50 grams

Salt  a pinch

Egg Yolk - 1
Lemon Zest - 1 tsp

Method:

Grate lemon rind, don’t grate the white part. I just peeled the yellow alone.

Take sugar and lemon rind in a blender and make it into a powder.

Now take a sauce pan, add in butter, lemon sugar, salt in. Beat till it is creamy.

Once it is creamy. Add in egg yolk and beat till it is creamy again.

Now pour in the lemon juice and mix well.

Now heat it on low to medium heat. It will get thick and thick. You have to keep mixing.

Once it is thick like a batter, remove it and pour it into a bowl.

Chill it.

Serve.

Notes:

1)You have to mix the butter and sugar till it is creamy before adding yolk.

2) When you grate or peel the lemon rind, use only yellow part, dont grate the white part, it will be very bitter

3)Once you add the lemon juice into the mix, it will look curdled, but dont worry it will thicken and get creamy as you heat it.

4)Heat it on low to medium heat stiring continuously. 

Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

I peeled the rind of lemon, only yellow part,
no white part

take sugar in a mixer

add in lemon peel

grind it to a powder

Now in a sauce pan, take butter, must be soft

add in the lemon sugar

mix this till it is creamy

add in salt

beat till creamy

add in egg yolk

beat till it is creamy again

cut open the lemon

squeeze the juice

strain it into the yolk mix

this catch the seeds

once the juice is in

mix well..it will look curdled..no issues

now heat in on medium low heat

You have to keep mixing it and heat it..

As you keep mixing..it will get thick and thick..

Once it is thick like this, take it off the heat

it will thicken even more as it cools

pour it into a bowl

chill and serve

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