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
Nice photo. Looking forward to trying this. Love lemons.
Going to try the lemon pudding with Meyer lemons from my daughter’s CA tree, here in freezing Montana!
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.