Lemon Curd an easy sweet and sour dessert
Lemon Curd an easy sweet and sour dessert
Delicious lemon curd is an easy treat, perfect for summer! Enjoy it alone for dessert or in pies and cakes.
I love this easy lemon curd when the lemons are ripe! Lemon slice cakes, lemon bars and lemon cookies are my go-to lemon snacks too!
What is Lemon Curd?
Have you tried lemon curd? Then today is your day to try something new! Lemon curd is a thick preserve made from lemons, eggs, butter and sugar. It’s delicious and can be used with many different desserts.
You can pour lemon curd on cakes, put on sugar cookies, use as pie filling and more! It has a thick consistency but a smooth texture that goes well with so many desserts. Lemon curd brings such a wonderful flavor to anything paired.
This lemon curd recipe has me super excited for summer. I love the smell of lemon on hot summer days. It’s so light and refreshing. Welcome to summer! ! And bring all the easy lemon treats. I really think this recipe might be too lemony, but it’s perfect in every way and I’m craving it as we speak! ! It’s great year-round, but is especially delicious during the warmer months. đ
How to Make Lemon Curd
You’ll impress a lot of people with this lemon curd recipe. It sounds difficult to do, but it’s easy.
enthusiasm. Just cut off the zest/zest of 3 lemons and put in a food processor along with the sugar. A food processor will make your life easier at this step. It will do all the heavy lifting for you. It makes the jam/sugar mixture really good. You want the peel and sugar in one for easy mixing with the other ingredients.
cream. Take your mixer and beat the butter on medium speed. Then add the zest/sugar mixture and stir to combine. Add the eggs, lemon juice, salt, and watch them mix together for a beautiful yellow color.
hot. Pour lemon curd into a saucepan and heat over low heat. While stirring constantly, cook for about 10 minutes until it reaches a thick consistency. Take it off the heat to cool.
Chill + Serve! Then refrigerate until you need to use it!
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Tips + Storage Information
Use freshly squeezed lemons juice
do one thicker lemon curd use an extra egg yolk
When you think the curd is done touch the back of the spoon to the curd. It should spread on the spoon without dripping.
Pour the curd into a fine mesh filter Get rid of any clumps that may form.
double boiler: Keep away from metal pans when cooking this curd. Curds tend to have a metallic taste. One way to avoid this is to make a double boiler out of ceramic or glass bowls.
- Just fill the pan with a few inches of water.
- Place a ceramic or glass bowl over the pot. Bring water to a boil.
- Cook the curds as directed in the recipe
Lemon curd can be used in pies, but not the same. The pie filling is thickened with flour and cornstarch. Lemon curd uses egg yolks and pectin from lemons to thicken it.
I have already mentioned some Uses of Lemon Curd, but I really want to share some more thoughts:
- Layer on pancakes, waffle toast, scones, muffins
- Mix with yogurt, ice cream, smoothies
- Fill pies, cream puffs, donut cakes or cupcakes.
Lemon curd will keep for a long time. shop Refrigerate in an airtight container for about 10 days. freeze up to 6 months. Thaw in the refrigerator before use.
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Course dessert
American food
Prep time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total time 25 minutes
Serving Size 3 cups
Calories 782 kcal
by Lil’ Luna
- 3 lemons
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 pound unsalted butter room temperature
- 4 extra large eggs
- 1/2 cup lemon juice 3-4 lemons
- 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
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Use a grater or grater to remove the zest from 3 lemons. Add to food processor, and with a steel blade, beat sugar until fine.
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In a mixer, beat cream butter and sugar. Add eggs 1 at a time, then add lemon juice and salt. combine.
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Add to pan over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, for 10 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat and cool or refrigerate.