Quick & Easy Tasty Orange Curd Recipe

Written by White River in Curd Recipes

This orange curd is perfect for breakfast or as a dessert or even in tarts or cakes. Why not enjoy a tasty orange curd with your morning toast or on your favourite dessert? It is very versatile.

This easy-to-make orange curd recipe is fruity and sweet and perfect for the morning rush.

It needs very few ingredients and is quite fast to make.  Once you have made this recipe you will be able to branch out and try other curd recipes.

Orange Curd Recipe

One of my favourite things to do is to make this curd slightly runny and use it on vanilla ice cream with some chocolate sauce. It is so yummy, but then I do like sweet!

How to Make a Tasty Orange Curd

Orange curd recipe
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Light & Fruity Orange Curd

This is easy to make and also quick to make orange curd. It needs only a few ingredients and little time.

Keyword orange curd
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Author White River

Ingredients

  • 200 ml Orange juice approx 4 oranges
  • 120 g Unsalted Butter
  • 8 Egg Yolks
  • 280 g Caster Sugar
  • Makes approx 2480ml Curd

Equipment List

  • Sieve
  • Wooden spoon
  • Grater
  • Jam jars and lid 2 x240ml sterilized
  • Bain-marie or double pan

Instructions

  1. Wash the oranges to clean and remove the wax
  2. Cut your oranges in half and extract the juice
  3. Use the grater to grate the zest of the oranges making sure you only take the orange part and not the white part
  4. Separate the egg whites and the yolk. Remove as much of the white as possible and keep for another project
  5. Weigh your butter and cut into smaller pieces
  6. Put all of your ingredients into your pan together
  7. Place your pan onto the hob and heat gently until all the butter has melted
  8. Increase your heat to medium
  9. Keep stirring until your mixture is thick and keeps a line on the centre of the spoon when you put something through it
  10. Pop your curd into the jar and seal it
  11. Allow it to cool down.

Recipe Notes

This recipe is quick and easy to do. Make sure you heat it enough though to make sure it thickens up. It is quite sweet so you may want to adjust the sugar to suit your own tastes.

This recipe was inspired by the curd recipe by live well and bake often  & Fruity preserves orange & Cinnamon Recipe

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