Sweet Lemon Curd

There are a ton of lemon curd recipes out at that spot together with they are all basically made from fresh lemons, sugar, butter together with eggs cooked together. The primary divergence betwixt the recipes is the bird of sweetness.  We similar our lemon curd a lilliputian on the sweeter side, therefore I purpose 1½ cups of carbohydrate inward my recipe.  I've seen other recipes that purpose alone ½ loving cup of carbohydrate for every 3 lemons...talk nearly tart!!

There are a 1000000 uses for this sweetness lemon curd. You tin purpose it betwixt cake layers, or equally a cupcake filling. You tin purpose it on hot scones or fifty-fifty toast. You tin crimp it into sweetened whipped cream for a delicious mousse, anything your imagination tin come upward up with. Slightly sweet, silky smoothen together with cheap to make, you lot volition dear this recipe.

1/2 loving cup fresh squeezed lemon juice (3 or iv lemons)
1½ cups granulated sugar
¼ pound of unsalted butter (room temperature)
4 extra large eggs
1/8 teaspoon kosher salt

Don't waste matter your time, examine together with coin making lemon curd alongside anything but practiced fresh lemons. I purpose lemon juice inward a bottle for some things, but non for this recipe. 

Wash, rinse and dry out your lemons earlier you lot zest them. Be rattling careful that you lot alone purpose the brilliant xanthous business office of the peeling. Stay away from the white layer underneath because it is BITTER.  Zest 3 lemons.

Put the granulated carbohydrate together with the zest of 3 lemons into a nutrient processor fitted alongside a steel blade. Pulse until the zest is rattling finely minced into the sugar.

In a dissimilar bowl, cream the room temperature butter until smooth, therefore shell inward the lemon sugar. Beat inward the eggs, i at a time, together with therefore the lemon juice together with salt. Beat until smooth.

Pour the mixture into a saucepan that has a heavy bottom (this volition conk on the mixture from scorching easily). Cook over depression oestrus until thickened (about 10 minutes) stirring constantly.

The lemon curd volition thicken at nearly 170 degrees or just below a simmer.  Keep a careful optic on it together with conk on stirring.

Press the cooked curd through a strainer to filter out whatever cooked zest pieces and/or tiny lumps.

Straining it is non absolutely necessary, but it insures a silky smoothen curd.

Lay some plastic wind straight onto the surface of the hot curd, together with chill inward the fridge.

NOTE: Zest the lemons earlier you lot cutting together with crush them.