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Microwave Lemon Curd recipe – who calls it Lemon Butter?

March 9, 2015 14 Comments

Oh microwave lemon curd, let me count the ways… How can something so magical come from just four ingredients two of which we have in our own backyard. I love you, deeply and truly, like Mindy loves cake, like Scout loves Peter Rabbit, like I love wine. And I don’t even care if I’m not sure if you are called butter or curd.

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I asked my friends on Facebook if they call this ‘lemon curd’ or ‘lemon butter’ and the results were exactly fifty-fifty, with one person saying that they thought that butter and curd were two different things, so I don’t really know what to call this recipe. But in my world this has always been lemon curd and I have such lovely memories of making it with my mum when I was little.

I think it was actually the first thing I ever learned to cook, to this day every time I get lemon juice in a cut I think of that feeling on zesting my knuckle, good times.

I don’t really know why, but I have always done this in the microwave, it’s not very cool, I’m sure you can do it in a thermomix or on an induction cook top in Jamie Oliver cookware but this is me, and I like to give a hat tip to early nineties suburban Australian cooking every so often.

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Prep 10 mins

Cook 6 mins

Total 16 mins

Yield 3 cups

Ingredients

  • one cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice (about 4 lemons) 
  • half a cup of sugar
  • one teaspoon of lemon zest 
  • 125 grams of butter
  • three big free range eggs

Instructions

  1. Melt the butter in a microwaveable bowl, if it gets too hot, let it cool slightly because you don't want it to cook the eggs when you put them in. 
  2. Add the juice, zest and sugar.
  3. Crack the eggs into a separate bowl and give them a little whisk. It's good to make a habit of cracking the eggs in something different first so if you get a bad egg it (like Veruka Salt) doesn't ruin the rest of your ingredients, and so you don't end up with shell in your mixture. Now it's time to combine the lot and give it a really good whisk.
  4. Pop the bowl in the microwave for a minute, take it out and whisk nice and hard, put it back in for another minute, take it out and whisk again. Check if the mixture is thick enough by dipping in a spoon and seeing if it coats the back evenly. If it doesn't then pop it back in for 30 seconds at a time, repeating the whisk and cook thing until it thickens enough to coat the spoon. It will get thicker in the fridge too so don't worry too much. it should look nice and creamy like the picture below. 

  5. Make a cup of tea while it cools then slather it on anything you can find and munch. Or pop it in fancy little jars - you can get cool ones here - and make them for hostess or teacher gifts. I don't know how long it lasts for, it barely makes a day in our house but refrigerated you would get at least two weeks. And you can freeze it too. 

Notes

If your microwave is a really powerful one (they are all so different) then just do thirty seconds from the start. It's better to have to repeat the step more times than to have lumpy curd. If you do want to do it on the stove top just pop it in a pot and stir continuously over medium heat.

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  1. Thalia @ butter and brioche

    March 9, 2015 at 5:09 pm

    Who knew it was possible to make lemon curd in the microwave?! This is so easy & definitely something i need to try!

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  2. Sonia Life Love Hiccups

    March 9, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    Oh you genius – I didnt even think I could make this glorious stuff for myself at home. Lemon butter. It is always lemon butter to me 😉 xx

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  3. Katie

    March 10, 2015 at 12:29 am

    I love lemon curd so much! It’s always hard to stop at just one spoon 😀

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  4. Melinda @ RecipeFiction

    March 10, 2015 at 2:46 am

    There are some things that are just easier in the microwave (caramel corn and oatmeal are two off the top of my head) but I didn’t know that lemon curd was one of them. Thanks!

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  5. Sam @ Just Jars Australia

    March 10, 2015 at 11:17 pm

    Babs, you’re a marvel – This sounds suspiciously like a recipe that I could actually pull off, despite being culinarily challenged!

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  6. Jenni from Styling Curvy

    March 12, 2015 at 11:26 am

    Gawd!! I have awesome memories of lemon curd on toast or fresh bread from the bakery. So yum!!

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  7. Patchwork Cactus

    March 24, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    YOU seriously can’t get this wrong. So long as you mix well and don’t cook it for too long – but if it does get lumpy, just strain it. : )

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  8. Patchwork Cactus

    March 24, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    Did you try it?

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  9. Patchwork Cactus

    March 24, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    My genius neighbour suggested I put it on vanilla ice cream. You don’t have to tell me twice!

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  10. Patchwork Cactus

    March 24, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    So welcome!

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  11. Patchwork Cactus

    March 24, 2015 at 9:37 pm

    This can also go in a pie #justsaying

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  12. Patchwork Cactus

    March 24, 2015 at 9:38 pm

    You can totally do it!

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  13. Chris Loverseed

    April 7, 2015 at 9:06 am

    I remember lemon curd back in the days! Really want to try this out!

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  14. Deirdre O'Reilly

    May 26, 2015 at 10:04 am

    You can mix it with whipped cream and pour into a baked pie shell. Sprinkle flaked almonds( browning them a little first is good). Always get compliments and people assume it’s a complex recipe!

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