“Burnt” Passion Fruit Curd

Name: “Burnt” Passion Fruit Curd
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice; 1 cup sugar; ¼ cup heavy cream; pinch salt; 1 cup ripe, fresh passion fruit juice (6 large fruits, pulp removed, pureed in a blender 1 minute, sieved); ¼ cup superfine sugar; 4 eggs; ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into 1-tablespoon pieces; 2 egg yolks

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Jeremiah Tower Cooks

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 2002

About

The only thing better than lemon curd is this one made with passion fruit.

Ingredients

4 eggs
2 egg yolks
1 cup ripe, fresh passion fruit juice (

Preserve
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Put all the ingredients except the butter and superfine sugar in a metal, nonreactive bowl and beat together well until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Prepare an ice bath in a bowl slightly bigger than the bowl used to beat the ingredients.

Put the bowl with the egg mixture over simmering water (but not in it) and cook while beating for 10 minutes, or just until the curd thi