Eggless Lemon Curd

Fruit curds are dessert spread usually prepared with citrus fruits like lemon,lime,orange or else with berries like strawberry,raspberry. The basic ingredients for making fruit curd are egg yolks, fruit juice, and the fruit zest which is cooked together until the mixture turns thick. Once cooled, the soft, smooth and fabulous flavoured spread can be used in small pastries, tarts, fruit bars or simply as filling in cakes.Home made fruit curds goes for no preservatives hence its better to make this fruit curds in small quantity. Coming to today's fruit curd, i prepared mine as eggless lemon curd. Yes you read it rite, my lemon curd is simply prepared without eggs. My lemon curd goes for corn starch, butter, lemon juice,sugar and zest. The addition of butter gives a beatiful smoother and creamier texture.

This eggless lemon curd is definitely an interesting, mildly tangy fruit curd to use as fillings in cake, unlike custards this curd cant be eaten on their own. Its better to have this curd as filling in pies or tarts.Initially i was planning to make this lemon curd as vegan,but finally i ended up as eggless coz of the vegan butter. I couldnt able to find it out in my nearby grocery shop, thats why i simply prepared this lemon curd as eggless version.This eggless lemon curd goes to this week's blogging marathon as i picked Lemon recipes as this week's blogging marathon..Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#46. 

1cup Fresh lemon juice
1+1/4cup Sugar
Lemon zest of 2 lemonds
2tbsp Milk
3tbsp Cornstarch
4tbsp Butter
3tbsp Cold water
1/4tsp Salt

Heat the lemon juice, sugar, lemon zest, salt in a small saucepan and stir cook until the sugar gets dissolved.

Mix the cornstarch, milk,cold water together, keep aside.

Now add corn starch mixture to the lemon juice-sugar mixture and cook in simmer until the mixture starts thicken.

Once the bubbles appear on the surface, add the butter and cook by stirring constantly until the mixture resembles like a thick spread.

Transfer this mixture to a bowl, cover it with a plastic wrap and let it cool completely.

Chill it for an hour in fridge before using.