Homemade Strawberry Sauce
This strawberry sauce is incredibly simple and easy to make with only 3 ingredients. This homemade strawberry sauce is bursting with fresh strawberry flavor! It’s sweet and delicious and seriously takes less than 15 minutes to make.
Equipment
- sauce pan
- Spatula
- hand chopper
Ingredients
- 300 grams fresh strawberries
- 2-3 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Take the strawberries, rinse, pat dry with clean towel and diced them.
- Add them onto the hand chopper and make a coarse puree. You can use food processor to do this.
- In a sauce pan or heavy bottom pan add in the strawberry puree, sugar and lemon juice.
- Place over medium heat and bring the mixture to a boil stirring occasionally. As it come to a boil the mixture will become thin and runny.
- Put on the lid and cook over low-medium flame until the mixture thickens.
- It will take approximately 10-12 minutes. Stir the mixture occasionally. Please note that the sauce will thicken up more as it cools down and even more after refrigeration.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool down completely. Store in a sterilized airtight jar in refrigerator.
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Notes
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You can also use frozen strawberries.
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Lemon juice is optional.
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Use beautifully ripe strawberries as you’ll get the best flavour that way.
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Use sugar as per the sweetness of your strawberry. You can add more if your strawberries are not very sweet.
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You can add 1-2 tablespoon cornstarch (cornflour) if you like. Make a slurry with little water and add in.
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You can follow the same recipe and make other fruit sauces - blueberry, cranberry, raspberry, black currant, mulberry etc.
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Store in clean jars and refrigerate for longer shelf life.