Lately I’ve been craving things that aren’t sweet. Salty, savoury, tart foods. I’m fairly sure this is my body’s way of telling me that I should slow down on the baking, or cut down my sugar intake or something.
Silly body, you love sweet things.
I do listen to it sometimes. I try and eat healthily when I’m not testing baked goods (mostly!) So instead of making cupcakes or a cake for this post, I made some gloriously tart lime curd.
I make no claims that this recipe is healthy…but it isn’t sweet, that’s for sure. It’s so super tart that your will tastebuds dance.
Just like my lemon curd, it will keep in your fridge for about 4 weeks, but it’s so delicious that I doubt it will last that long. I’ll be posting a recipe for lime curd tarts tomorrow…stay tuned for more deliciousness!
Lime curd:
Makes 2 cups
- 4 limes
- 1 cup sugar
- 100g butter
- 3 eggs + 1 egg yolk
Zest two of your limes and juice all of them. You don’t want your curd to be too zest-laden, so make sure you only zest two of them.
Put the juice, zest, sugar and butter into a pan over medium heat and stir until the butter is melted.
Whisk the eggs and egg yolk together, then add the egg mixture to the lime mixture.
Turn the heat up to high and allow it bubble quite fiercely. Whisk it for about five minutes (making sure it doesn’t burn) until it starts to thicken. You can also use your whisk to fish out any pieces of zest if you feel there is too much in there.
Take off the heat and allow to cool for ten minutes.
Pour into jars and refrigerate for at least two hours.
What a lovely recipe! Can’t wait to see the recipe for lime curd tarts. 🙂
Thank you 🙂 The lime curd tarts are being posted this afternoon… I’ve eaten them all already! haha
I have to make this, have made all manner of curds but never lime. Lovely recipe.
Ooh, what other curds have you made? I’m keen to turn everything into curd now!! Let me know if you make it, it’s so good…very tart, but delicious haha