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Neven's lemon curd cheesecake with poached berries: Today

Neven's lemon curd cheesecake with poached berries: Today
Neven's lemon curd cheesecake with poached berries: Today

Ingredients

Serves 4

For the Poached Fruits

  • 100ml red wine
  • 100ml good quality apple juice
  • 50ml crème de casis
  • 75g caster sugar
  • 1 tsp mixed spice
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 500g mixed frozen fruits (such as raspberries/strawberries/blueberries)

For the Cheesecake

  • 200g Sicilian Lemon Curd
  • 180g Irish Cream Cheese
  • 250g authentic Greek yoghurt (10% fat)
  • 1 vanilla pod, seed scrapped out
  • 1 passion fruit, seeds scrapped out

To assemble the Cheesecake

  • 200g shortbread biscuits
  • Fresh raspberries, to serve

Method

For the Poached Fruits

  1. Place the red wine, apple juice casis, sugar, mixed spice and vanilla extract in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
  2. Reduce heat and simmer for five minutes until slightly thickened to a syrup.
  3. Stir in the frozen fruits and allow to cool completely


For the Cheesecake

  1. Place the lemon curd, cream cheese, yoghurt, vanilla and passionfruit seeds in a large bowl
  2. Using a balloon whisk, whisk everything together until combined
  3. Set aside until needed

To assemble the Cheesecake

  1. Spoon poached fruits in the bottom of a serving glass
  2. Sprinkle over crushed shortbread biscuits
  3. Gently spoon over the cheesecake mix and using the back of the spoon smoothen
  4. Decorate with fresh raspberries