Lemon Bar Recipe Ina Garten
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1/8 TABLESPOON Kosher salt
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
For Filling
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons grated lemon zest
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 6 extra-large eggs at room temperature
- Confectioners sugar for dusting
Instructions
- To bake your dish, the oven is preheated at 350 degrees and the temperature is exactly suitable for the recipe.
- To make the crust for the lemon bars, you have to blend the butter and sugar until these are creamed together. Use the electric blender and it would be better to have one with the paddle.
- Now add flour into the mixture and season it by adding salt. Knead the mixture until your dough is formed.
- Make a ball out of the dough and then use the rolling pin to flatten the dough.
- Once done, put the flattened dough on the baking sheet and make an edge around all the sides.
- Put the pan in the refrigerator and chill the dough.
- After a little time of chilling, bake the dough of crust in the oven for 20 minutes. The dough will be lightly browned and then put on the rack for cooling.
- To make the filling for the crust, blend the eggs with sugar until all the sugar is melted in the eggs. Pour in the lemon zest and also lemon juice. Add some flour.
- Drizzle the mixture into the lightly browned baked crust and bake for half an hour. A filling will be set in this time and then let cool.
- Make triangles of the lemon bars and dust them by sprinkling the confectioner's sugar and they look so yummy.