Classic Lemon Curd

We prepare the necessary ingredients for cooking.

Carefully grate the lemons using a fine grater. To get the zest, remove only the outer yellow part of the peel. Otherwise, the resulting cream may turn out bitter and less tasty.

Cut the lemons in half.

We squeeze the juice from the lemons.

Pour sugar into a fireproof dish.

Add lemon zest to the sugar.

Lightly grind the resulting mixture with a spoon or spatula.

Add lemon juice and yolks to the sugar-zest mixture.

Stir the resulting mixture and place it in a double boiler. Heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens. This takes about 10 minutes on average.

Remove the thickened mixture from the heat. Add the chopped butter. Stir the butter thoroughly into the hot custard mixture.

To remove the lemon zest, you can pass the finished lemon curd through a sieve.