Easy Lemon Curd Recipe – How to make a quick and simple homemade 4 ingredient lemon curd dessert. Plus the best uses for what to do with a small batch of the easiest curd. With the video.
Easy Lemon Curd Recipe
This easy lemon curd recipe is a delicious sweet treat to make when life gives you lemons!
A bag of lemons has been just 79 cents lately so this curd is also wonderfully budget friendly.
Best of all, the easy recipe needs only 4 simple ingredients including whole eggs, so you don’t have to separate the egg yolks from the egg whites as you often have to do in fruit curd recipes.
You can add as much sugar to the simple recipe as you’d like, just depends on how sweet you like your sweet treats and the ideal tart lemon flavor of your perfect lemon curd.
The best way to make a dairy-free lemon curd is by swapping the butter for a dairy free alternative or even coconut oil. You can feel free to swap the lemons in the easy recipe for limes to make a lime curd, if that’s what your taste buds are craving.
How To Make Lemon Curd At Home
To make the lemon lovers curd, you simply beat the eggs and sugar together a little bit, stir through the butter, lemon juice and lemon zest and then cook it over low heat.
It may seem like nothing is happening at first as the heat is so low. Do not be tempted to raise the heat as you risk scrambling your eggs!
Just be patient and slowly your liquid will thicken to become a luscious lemon curd, as you’ll see in the video tutorial down below.
An easy way to test that the curd is ready is to run your finger along the back of a wooden spoon that’s coated with the curd. It should make a solid line that holds it’s place to let you know the curd has perfectly thickened and is ready to move to a glass jar or container of choice to enjoy in a multitude of ways.
Uses For The Easy Recipe
There are so many lovely ways to enjoy the homemade curd, my favorite way is to simply enjoy the curd by the indulgent spoon full!
But, you could also enjoy the great recipe in any of the following ways:
- Mixed through yogurt
- Mix through whipped cream or cream cheese
- As a meringue/pavlova topping
- As a lemon tart, lemon bars or lemon meringue pie filling
- As a fruit salad topping
- As a pancake/waffle topping
- As an ice cream topping
- The perfect filling for a cake such as an angel food cake
- To sandwich cookies
- Spread on scones
Easy Lemon Curd Recipe
- 3 Eggs
- 1/3-1/2 Cup Sugar
- 2 Fresh Lemons
- 50g/1.76oz Unsalted Butter
- Crack the eggs into a small saucepan.
- Add in the sugar.
- Whisk to combine the eggs and sugar together, until smooth.
- Using a microplane grater, add the lemon zest and squeeze the fresh lemon juice over a sieve or fine mesh strainer to catch any pips, then whisk through.
- Chop the butter into small cubes and add into the lemon mixture.
- Place the small pan over medium heat.
- Whisk continuously while the curd cooks, until the butter has melted and the curd has thickened.
- Remove from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
- You can check that the curd is done by placing a spoon into the curd, removing it and running your finger along the back of a spoon. The curd should hold it’s place when thickened.
- Once the curd has cooled, move to a jar or serving dish, store in the fridge in an airtight container and enjoy within a week.
Best Lemon Curd Recipe Video
Here’s the video where you can watch the homemade lemon curd recipe being prepared, step by step. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.
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