Tarte au Citron

Name: Tarte au Citron
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 200g plain flour; 100g cold butter, cubed; 2 tbsp icing sugar; 1 egg yolk; 3 tbsp iced water; 3 eggs plus 2 yolks for curd; 150g caster sugar; juice of 3 lemons; zest of 2 lemons; 120g butter, cubed

Classic lemon tart with a silky sharp citrus curd in a buttery pastry shell. Whisking the curd over a bain-marie rather than direct heat thickens the eggs gently without scrambling them into a curdled mess.

Total time

95 min

Prep

45 min

Cook

50 min

Difficulty

hard

Cuisine

French

vegetarian

Ingredients

200gplain flour

100gcold butter, cubed

2 tbspicing sugar

1egg yolk

3 tbspiced water

3eggs plus 2 yolks for curd

150gcaster sugar

juice of 3lemons

zest of 2lemons

120gbutter, cubed

Instructions

Make pastry: rub butter into flour and icing sugar. Add yolk and water. Chill 30 minutes.

Line tart tin, blind bake at 180°C for 15 minutes. Cool.

Make curd: whisk eggs, sugar, lemon juice and zest over a bain-marie until thick.

Off heat, beat in butter cubes.

Pour into cooled shell.

Bake at 150°C for 20–25 minutes until just set.

Serve with crème fraîche.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

758

Protein

6.6g

Fat

46.3g

Carbs

82.2g

Fiber

2.2g

Sodium

10mg

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