I am sure that many of us have a palette for tangy flavours, atleast i do ..I love lemon curd tarts. The tangy taste of the lemon curd against the crumbly tarts is to die for.
A tart is typically a baked short crust pastry which is filled with sweet or savoury mixtures. It is a good dessert for parties. It can be made a day or two before the party and assembled just before serving.
Lemon curd is a dessert topping made using egg yolks, sugar, corn flour, butter and most importantly lemon juice and rind. It has a tangy taste and creamy texture. The lemon curd is very easy to make and can be stored in the refrigerator for a week or so.
Lemon Curd Tarts
Author: Asha
Recipe type: Bakes
Cuisine: Global
Serves: 15-20 small tarts
Ingredients
To make the lemon curd
- Eggs, 2
- Fresh lemon juice, 40 ml
- Grated lemon rind, 1 tsp
- Cornflour, 1 tsp
- Butter, 3 tsp
- Castor Sugar, 100 gms
To make the tarts
- Plain flour, 250 gms
- Cold Butter, 120 gms
- Castor Sugar, 60 gms
- Egg,1
- Vanilla essence, ½ tsp
- Cold Water, 1.5-2 tbspns
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
To make the lemon curd:
- Place a container on a double boiler.
- Add the eggs, sugar, cornflour, lemon juice and rind to that.
- Whisk it continuously till the mixture till becomes thick and light yellow in colour.
- Remove from heat and add the butter and mix well.
- Once cooled you can refrigerate it and use it on your tarts as and when needed.
To make the tarts
- Preheat the oven at 180C.
- Grease the tart moulds.
- Add the cold butter and flour in a container. Rub the cold butter into the flour till the whole mixture becomes crumbly.
- Add the remaining ingredients and knead well on a lightly floured work surface.
- Cover the dough with a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Roll out the tarts on a lightly floured work surface into a ⅛ inch thick sheet.
- Place the tart moulds on top of the rolled out dough and press the mould on the dough and cut out small pastries.
- Line the tart moulds with this.
- Prick the pastries with a fork so that it doesnt rise during baking.
- Bake for 10-12 mins.
- Remove the tarts from the moulds and let it cool.
- Once it has cooled down, fill the tarts with the lemon curd and serve!
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