Lemon curd is one of my all time favorite eats. The love stemmed from baking lemon meringue pies with my grandmother every Thanksgiving and Christmas from the time I could balance on a step-stool to reach the stove. My little arm would get so tired from stirring the thick and bubbly filling. And I’d always pretend I scraped as much of the filling as I could into the pie shell, but really I’d leave a fair amount in the pan so I could eat the rest with a spoon.
Years later {and thankfully while living alone}, I discovered that lemon meringue pie filling and lemon curd were the same-ish. I started buying a fancy brand of lemon curd and eating it by the spoonful, similar to peanut butter, for dessert. But knowing how much butter is in lemon curd, it was a habit that needn’t continue.
This meyer lemon pudding recipe is a hybrid between lemon curd and stirred vanilla pudding. Tart like curd, creamy like pudding, but without any of the dairy that’s common in both. Made with coconut milk and coconut oil, this dessert is completely dairy free and completely delicious.
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Meyer Lemon Pudding
By September 30, 2015
Published:- Yield: 4 Servings
Lemon curd is one of my all time favorite eats. The love stemmed from baking lemon meringue pies with my grandmother every …
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup cane sugar
- 2 tablespoons corn starch
- 2 cups coconut milk
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1/4 cup meyer lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon meyer lemon zest
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, whisk sugar and corn start together.
- Add coconut milk and continue stirring with a whisk over medium-high heat until thickened and bubbly.
- Continue stirring for 2 minutes.
- Remove pan from heat.
- Beat egg yolks in a small bowl and add 1 cup of the hot coconut milk mixture to the egg yolks while whisking vigorously.
- Pour egg mixture into the coconut milk mixture and mix well.
- Turn heat to medium-high and bring to a gentle boil.
- Reduce heat to low and continue stirring with a whisk for 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and gently stir in coconut oil, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
- Pour pudding into (4) 6-ounce dessert cups.
- Cover and refrigerate until cool, about 2 hours.
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Jessica says
Dang. I knew I should have tried some of that pudding in the fridge!
Kristin says
Haha you couldn’t have thought it was ordinary pudding! 😉
Lisa Fierce says
I hope to make this with the fruit from my Urban Meyer lemon tree
Kristin says
Love it!!