Recipes / Desserts / Lemon pie
Dessert
Lemon pie
A crunchy base of Maria and Lotus biscuits with a really creamy homemade lemon curd.
- Cooking
- 10 min + chilling
- Prep
- 25 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
Per serving
452 kcal
Protein · 4 %
4 g
Fat · 67 %
34 g
Carbs · 29 %
33 g
Estimate per serving, worked out ingredient by ingredient. The percentage is the share of the calories.
Ingredients
For 8 servings
- For the base
- 70 g Maria biscuits
- 70 g Lotus biscuits
- 95 g melted butter
- For the lemon curd
- 2 eggs
- 4 egg yolks
- 150 g white sugar
- 145 g lemon juice
- 180 g softened butter, diced
- a pinch of salt
Mum's tip
It's lovely with Swiss meringue on top, toasted with a blowtorch.
Step by step
- Blitz the biscuits with the melted butter. Spread the mixture over the tart tin, pressing it down with a glass to shape it, and chill it while you make the curd.
- Put the eggs, yolks, sugar and lemon juice in a saucepan. Cook over a medium heat, stirring constantly so it doesn't stick, until it thickens like custard.
- Take off the heat and add the diced butter and the pinch of salt (if your butter is unsalted). Stir well until smooth.
- Pour the curd over the biscuit base and leave to cool in the fridge until set.