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Ingredients
Pastry
- 230 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
- 1 pinch sea salt
- 100 g butter, chilled and cut into pieces, plus extra for greasing
- 50 g icing sugar
- 3 egg yolks
Filling
- 250 g white sugar
- 3 lemons, zest only, no white pith
- 5 eggs, room temperature
- 200 g pouring (whipping) cream
- 110 g lemon juice (approx. 3 lemons)
- icing sugar, to serve (optional)
- Nutrition
- per 1 portion
- Calories
- 2066 kJ / 492 kcal
- Protein
- 9.5 g
- Carbohydrates
- 60 g
- Fat
- 25 g
- Saturated Fat
- 14.3 g
- Fibre
- 1.3 g
- Sodium
- 83.3 mg
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