Lemon Curd

Name: Lemon Curd
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 piece egg; 50g Sugar; 2 tablespoons (30ml) Lemon juice; 18g Unsalted butter; 1 teaspoon Lemon zest

by Kaya

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

10m

Serving

2

Lemon curd may also be called lemon mayonnaise, lemon honey, and various translations. It is a super easy to make all-match sauce in desserts. It can be used with lemon protein tarts, muffins, macarons, scones, Cheesecake etc. In fact, I always think that lemon is an almighty at home. Because of its outstanding sourness, it always plays the role of the finishing touch and achieves a perfect balance of various flavors. "

Ingredients

1 piece Egg
50g Sugar
2 tablespoons (30ml) Lemon Juice
18g Unsalted Butter
1 teaspoon Lemon Zest

Lemon Curd

1. The ingredients are ready, the lemon juice must be freshly squeezed, and the butter softened at room temperature

2. Eggs, sugar and lemon juice are mixed well, and heated in water

3. Stirring is required during heating, after about 5 minutes, when the liquid becomes curd-like, the heat can be removed

4. Heat the curd through a sieve to remove small bumps, add butter and mix well

5. Add lemon zest, mix well, put in refrigerator

Tips:
1. It is easier to use chilled lemons when slicing lemon zest, first squeeze the lemon zest and then squeeze the lemon juice
2. The refrigerated lemon curd will become more viscous and can be used with cakes, muffins, scones or various fillings. There are many uses.