Lemon Curd Recipe

Hello!
Today I felt like doing some cooking so I decided to make lemon curd. We usually buy our lemon curd from a supermarket but I thought to myself, how hard can it be? The answer to this question is: not hard at all! It only uses four ingredients and it is really easy to make. I am going to share the recipe that I used along with some tips of my own. I got the recipe from the BBC food website. Follow this link to get to that recipe.

Lemon Curd
Lemon curd is a sweet but tangy treat that is used in so many recipes. Once you have tried making it yourself, you won't want to buy it again. Spread it over toast, use it as a filling for a cake, top a cheesecake with it, put it tarts or fold a little into whipped cream and serve with fresh fruit. The options are endless.

Makes one large 500g jar or two smaller jars.

Ingredients

• 4 large lemons, the juice and the zest (make sure you get unwaxed lemons)
• 200g caster sugar
• 3 large eggs plus 1 egg yolk
• 100g unsalted butter

Method

1. Zest and juice your lemons into a glass bowl and add the sugar and the butter. Heat up a pan of water until it is just simmering and place the glass bowl on top. Make sure the water doesn't touch the bowl
2. Heat the mixture gently, stirring every so often until the butter is melted and the ingredients are all incorporated. Take the bowl off the heat for a minute or so
3. Beat the eggs and egg yolk in a separate bowl. Carefully pour a little of the hot mixture into the eggs and whisk until incorporated. Keep doing this but only add a little of the hot mixture at a time so you don't accidentally cook the eggs
4. When all of the ingredients are well incorporated, put the bowl back on the pan and cook slowly for about 10 minutes. Make sure you stir it every so often. The mixture should thicken slowly and after 10 minutes it should cover the back of a spoon
5. Remove the bowl from the heat and leave the lemon curd to cool, stirring every so often. Once cooled, pour the lemon curd into sterilised jars and seal them
6. Keep the lemon curd in the fridge and enjoy!

If you don't like lemons, you could always try making a different flavour like orange or even passion fruit. I hope you like this recipe!
Bye!