Lemon custard with fruit topping
Lemon custard with fruit topping recipe in the egg category
Recipe ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon salt, optional
- 3 cups skim or low fat milk, heated until very hot
- Cooking spray
- Sliced fresh strawberries
- Jam, jelly or fruit preserves
- Lemon peel strips, optional
- Fresh mint leaves, optional
Recipe method:
- In medium bowl, beat together eggs, sugar, juice, grated peel, vanilla and salt, if desired, until well blended.
- Stir in milk.
- Place 6, 6 ounces, spray coated custard cups in large baking pan.
- Pour egg mixture into custard cups.
- Place pan on rack in preheated 350 degrees F oven.
- Pour very hot water into pan to within 1/2 inch of top of custards.
- Bake until knife inserted near center comes out clean, about 25 to 30 minutes.
- Remove promptly from hot water.
- Cool on wire rack about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Serve warm or chilled.
- Invert onto individual plates.
- Arrange sliced strawberries around each custard.
- Spoon jam on top of each custard.
- Garnish with lemon peel strips and mint leaves, if desired.
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