Name: Lemon cheesecake with citrus salad and limoncello syrup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 500 gm cream cheese, at room temperature; 120 gm caster sugar; Juice and finely grated rind of 1½ lemons, or to taste; 150 ml thickened cream; 125 gm mascarpone; Almond bread; 180 gm eggwhite (about 9 eggs); 225 gm caster sugar; 250 gm plain flour, sieved; 150 gm natural almonds; 130 gm pistachios; Scraped seeds of ½ vanilla bean; Citrus salad with limoncello syrup; 150 gm caster sugar; 40 ml limoncello; 2 oranges, segmented, and 2 pieces of orange rind, pith removed, thinly sliced; 1 pink grapefruit, segmented; 1 lime, rind zested, segmented

“I would love the recipe for the lemon cheesecake served at Fraser’s in Perth, please.”

Lyn Loughman, via email

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Ingredients

500 gm cream cheese, at room temperature

120 gm caster sugar

Juice and finely grated rind of 1½ lemons, or to taste

150 ml thickened cream

125 gm mascarpone

Almond bread

180 gm eggwhite (about 9 eggs)

225 gm caster sugar

250 gm plain flour, sieved

150 gm natural almonds

130 gm pistachios

Scraped seeds of ½ vanilla bean

Citrus salad with limoncello syrup

150 gm caster sugar

40 ml limoncello

2 oranges, segmented, and 2 pieces of orange rind, pith removed, thinly sliced

1 pink grapefruit, segmented

1 lime, rind zested, segmented

Method

Main

1.For almond bread, preheat oven to 180C. Whisk eggwhite and sugar in a bowl over simmering water until sugar dissolves (3-4 minutes). Transfer to an electric mixer, whisk until soft peaks form, fold in flour, nuts and ½ tsp sea salt flakes, pour into an 8cm x 20cm loaf tin greased and lined with baking paper and bake until bread is golden and springs back when touched (35-40 minutes; if bread browns too quickly, cover with foil). Cool slightly in tin, turn onto a rack, cool completely. Freeze until firm (1 hour), thinly slice, place on oven trays lined with baking paper, bake until crisp (4-6 minutes), then cool on a rack.

2.Meanwhile, beat cream cheese and sugar in an electric mixer until smooth (3-4 minutes). Mix in half the lemon juice and rind, then mix in cream and mascarpone until just combined (do not over-whisk). Add remaining lemon juice and rind to taste, spoon into a 1-litre non-reactive container and refrigerate until firm (1-2 hours).

3.For citrus salad with limoncello syrup, stir sugar and 60ml water in a saucepan over low heat to dissolve, bring to the simmer, cool, stir in limoncello and set aside. Combine orange, grapefruit and rinds in a bowl, drizzle with a little limoncello syrup and stir to combine.

4.To serve, top slices of almond bread with a quenelle of cheesecake, spoon citrus salad over and drizzle with extra limoncello syrup.

This recipe is from the February 2012 issue of .
Notes

The Gourmet Traveller Team

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Styling by Vanessa Austin

Ingredients

Method

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