Lip-licking Lemon Curd Tart

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 6 eggs (preferably free-range)
• 2 large lemons
• 200 g raw sugar
• 60 g lightly-salted butter
• 1 sheet puff pastry

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 220°c.
• 2 place eggs, lemon juice, sugar and the grated zest of the 2 lemons in a large metal basin.
• 3 whisk to break up eggs.
• 4 place over a saucepan of boiling water, and continue whisking until the mixture becomes warm.
• 5 add the butter, and continue stirring until mixture thickens, being careful not to overcook or else the mixture will curdle.
• 6 allow mixture to cool.
• 7 place sheet of puff pastry on a lightly greased oven tray.
• 8 place tray in oven, reduce oven temperature to 180°c.
• 9 after 10 minutes, take pastry out. it should be puffed up.
• 10 push the center down with your fingers to deflate the pastry, while leaving a puffed area around the periphery of the pastry square.
• 11 fill the depressed part of the pastry with a generous serving of the lemon curd.
• 12 place tray in the fridge for around 1 hour to set.
• 13 serve with vanilla icecream.
• 14 leftover lemon curd can be refrigerated and used in future tarts, on toast, with icecream, etc.