Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lemon curd. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lemon Curd is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Lemon Curd is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Lemon Curd is a thick, soft, and velvety cream that has a deliciously tart yet sweet citrus flavor. While traditionally it was used as a spread for scones, it also makes a delicious filling or topping for tarts. Lemon curd is such an easy thing to make and delicious on just about everything!
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have lemon curd using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Curd:
- Make ready 6 medium sized lemons,
- Prepare 8 egg yolks
- Get 1 whole egg
- Get 1 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 good pinch of sea salt flakes
- Make ready 1 1/2 stick unsalted butter , in small pieces
- Prepare What you will also need
- Take 3 cup hot water
- Get 1 tsp white vinegar
- Get 3 cup (28 oz.) capacity jar -something between a pint jar and a quart jar.
- Prepare 1 wax paper disk, or small piece plastic wrap
- Make ready 1 cellophane jar cover and elastic or lid to fit the jar
The reward is a spread that's smooth, creamy, sweet, and tart. Lemon curd is great in cakes or pies, spread on scones, or licked right off the spoon. Homemade lemon curd makes a lovely gift when packaged in an attractive container or use up at home as it Homemade lemon curd is quick and easy and so much more mouthwatering than the. Lemon curd is a popular condiment for afternoon tea and is used similarly to jam or custard.
Instructions to make Lemon Curd:
- Heat oven to 200C
- Wash jar and put it in the oven (without its lid) for 10-20 minutes
- Carefully remove it from the oven and set it aside.
- Pour hot water over the lemons in a large bowl, add the vinegar and let stand for 30 seconds. This is to remove any wax or detritus from the lemon skin, and releases more juice from the lemons.
- Dry the lemons, then zest them and then juice them (you will use both)
- In a medium saucepan, whisk the eggs and sugar lightly.
- Put the pan on a medium low heat, and add the juice and zest, followed by the butter and salt
- Bring it up to a simmer and stir it with the whisk until it thickens up (about 15-20 minutes)
- Pour it through a sieve with quite a wide mesh into a jug, then pour into the jar.
- Wipe away any spilt curd, place the wax disk on top wax side down, then set aside to cool.
- Add the lid or cellophane cover, a label (if you want) and refridgerate until cold.
- Will keep for two weeks in the fridge.
It is a sweet, tangy topping with a strong lemon taste (much stronger than, say, a lemon custard). Fruit curd is a dessert spread and topping usually made with citrus fruit, such as lemon, lime, orange, or tangerine. Other flavor variations include passion fruit, mango, and berries such as raspberries, cranberries or blackberries. This incredibly easy Lemon Curd recipe is sweet, tart, silky smooth and perfect for spreading on all manner of baked goods. Lemon curd is so easy to make in the microwave and blows store bought.
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