Strawberry Sauce – My Baking Dependancy

Strawberry Sauce is ridiculously easy to make and is precisely what you want to prime your waffles, french toast, ice cream, yogurt, and extra!

I believe you all know by now that as straightforward as it’s to run to the shop to purchase sure issues, it’s typically simply as straightforward to make them at house.

Like pumpkin pie spice or taco seasoning – I can choose them up on the retailer, however they’re really easy to make at house and the home made variations truly style higher.

This strawberry sauce is a type of recipes. Yeah, you should purchase that crimson squeeze bottle of strawberry sauce on the grocery retailer, however it’s at all times overly candy and doesn’t actually style like strawberries.

These things, although? It takes lower than 10 minutes to make and is bursting with taste. 

HOW TO MAKE STRAWBERRY SAUCE

Identical to after we realized learn how to make caramel sauce, you’ll discover that this home made strawberry sauce is surprisingly straightforward to make. You’ll surprise why you ever bothered shopping for strawberry sauce on the grocery retailer!

Components you’ll want

The substances record for this recipe is tremendous easy. You’ll want:

• 16 ounces contemporary strawberries, tops eliminated, or frozen strawberries
• ½ cup water
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch combined with 2 tablespoons chilly water
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

The most effective issues about this recipe is that you need to use contemporary or frozen strawberries. If it’s the peak of summer time and you’ve got a ton of contemporary, completely candy strawberries – use these! 

However in the midst of winter, you may nonetheless make this sauce and have it style wonderful through the use of frozen berries. 

It’s also possible to use complete or sliced strawberries. If you happen to use complete strawberries, you may select to depart them in massive items within the closing sauce or use a fork or potato masher to interrupt them down as they cook dinner.

Making this recipe

If you happen to’ve made my blueberry sauce or raspberry sauce, you’ll be conversant in the strategy for making this recipe, too. 

Seize a medium saucepan and add all the strawberries, ½ cup of water, the sugar and the lemon juice. Convey this to a low boil, stirring ceaselessly.

Whereas that combination involves a boil, whisk collectively the cornstarch with 2 tablespoons of chilly water to make a slurry. That is what’s going to thicken our sauce.

As soon as the strawberries come to a boil, slowly add the cornstarch slurry. Simmer the sauce till it’s thick sufficient to coat the again of a spoon; this may take about 5 minutes.

Go forward and take away the pan from the warmth and add the vanilla extract. You’ll want to stir it in gently for those who don’t wish to break up the berries an excessive amount of.

At this level, you may serve the strawberry sauce heat or chill it within the fridge earlier than serving it.

WHAT TO PUT THIS STRAWBERRY SAUCE ON

So precisely what can you place this home made sauce on? The higher query is what can’t you place it on!

It’s unimaginable on prime of a stack of Bisquick pancakes or waffles or swirled into the batter for sheet pan pancakes. 

Spoon it on prime of a slice of in a single day french toast casserole as a substitute of or along with maple syrup.

Pair it with home made sizzling fudge sauce and switch a scoop of vanilla ice cream into an unimaginable ice cream sundae.

Use it to prime slices of vanilla cheesecake or cheesecake bars.

Or seize your favourite vanilla yogurt and a few maple pecan granola and prime it with this sauce for a breakfast that may gasoline your day.

See? The choices are actually countless!

STORAGE

Since you may serve this sauce heat or chilly, it’s an amazing recipe to make forward of time and retailer within the fridge till you want it.

Pour the completed sauce into an hermetic container and maintain it within the fridge for as much as 5 days.

Freezing your home made strawberry sauce

If you wish to make the sauce even additional upfront or you end up with tons of contemporary strawberries and wish to make a number of batches of strawberry sauce to take pleasure in later, you may at all times freeze it!

As soon as the sauce has cooled, place it in an hermetic, freezer-safe container or in zip-top freezer luggage and freeze for as much as 3 months. Let the sauce thaw within the fridge in a single day earlier than utilizing.

If you happen to select to freeze the sauce, you might wish to portion it into smaller containers so you may pull out solely what you want at a time. I prefer to freeze it in 1-cup parts – the proper quantity for a weekend pancake breakfast!

It doesn’t matter what you select to spoon this strawberry sauce on, I do know it’ll grow to be a brand new favourite in your home!