With a beautiful balance of creaminess and tartness, this lemon pudding is easy to bake and very comforting.
By Kankana Saxena
Sweet Lemon Pudding
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 5-6 1x
Description
With a beautiful balance of creaminess and tartness, this lemon pudding from is easy to bake and very comforting.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, kept at room temperature
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 3 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs, separated (egg yolk in one bowl and egg white in another bowl)
- 1 cup milk
- zest of 2 lemons
- juice of 2 lemons
- powdered sugar for dusting
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk sugar with butter until it’s creamy.
- Add egg yolk to the bowl and beat until it’s smooth.
- In a separate bowl, mix the dry ingredients – flour, baking powder and salt.
- Mix dry ingredients into the egg yolk bowl and whisk.
- Add lemon juice, lemon zest and milk. Whisk again.
- Pre heat the oven to 325F and boil a pan of water.
- While that’s happening, whisk egg white until it foams a soft peak.
- Pour beaten egg white to the egg yolk bowl. Using a spatula, very carefully fold the beaten egg whites until it’s all mixed together.
- Pour the mixture in separate ramekin bowls and place bowls on a baking pan. Pour hot water on the baking pan carefully until it comes half way up the ramekin bowls.
- Place baking pan in the oven and bake it for 30 minutes or until it’s set on top.
- Dust some powdered sugar and serve warm or cold.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
This sounds oh so yummy, looking forward to making it myself. I love lemons, I like to eat at least one per day when I can.
Going to try the lemon pudding with Meyer lemons from my daughter’s CA tree, here in freezing Montana!
Nice photo. Looking forward to trying this. Love lemons.