One of the best things about summer is all of the fresh fruits and berries and it’s hard to resist using them to make sauces, syrups and jams to be poured or slathered on anything your heart desires! Since sauces are the easiest to make I make them often and I always enjoy a nice strawberry sauce! The recipe for a strawberry sauce is so easy, it’s just fresh strawberries and a sweetener to taste that is simmered in water until the flavour from the strawberries infuses the water and it gets all nice and thick and syrupy. The strawberry sauce can be made in less than 20 minutes and once done you can use it on anything from pancakes to waffles, ice cream, cheesecake, etc. or even just by the spoonful!
Strawberry Sauce
A quick and easy homemade strawberry sauce that is perfect on everything from ice cream to pancakes, cakes, etc!
ingredients
- 2 pounds strawberries, sliced (~4 cups)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice (~1/2 lemon)
- 1/4 cup water
directions
- Bring everything to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer until the sauce thickens a bit and gets syrupy, about 5-10 minutes.
This sounds great – I need to give it a try/
How long will it last? If you seal them like jam, by boiling the jars, can you keep it in the cupboard until ready to use?
Store it in the fridge and use within a few weeks or use proper canning procedures to store for longer.
Hi Kevin, I would like to know that also. If one could boil the jars to make them keep longer. Thank you.
Store it in the fridge and use within a few weeks or use proper canning procedures to store for longer.
Substituting booze gives a nice adult version 😉
I bought a lot of reduced strawbs the other week and just stuck them in the fridge with sugar, cherry vodka, plum wine and a touch of Chambord and it's a lovely syrup now. Goes wonderfully with ice-cream.
I made this for the Strawberry Cheesecakedilla that's on this site. This is a keeper for future desserts as well. Very rewarding making something that tastes this good. Thanks for the appealing photos of these strawberries that made me want to make this recipe. I noticed my strawberries, while very red before cooking, their color dulled. Yet the photos here seem incredibly red. Way more red than mine were. But all your photos are quite skillful and polished, like in a magazine or published cook book, so I'm thinking there's a bit of photo-shopping going on that makes all your food look so appealing and appetizing.
How long does this last? I made these recently – which came out great, by the way – placed them in the refrigerator but they went bad within a few days. Way before any of the fresh fruit I buy.
Could this be sealed and kept shelf ready like Photogirl and Alina asked in 2015
Store it in the fridge and use within a few weeks or use proper canning procedures to store for longer.
Do you have a recipe that you can – Jar/can and not have to store it in the Fridge?
if so can you share it
When I make extra, I store mine in the freezer
Can you use fresh peaches and do the same thing? Just wondering if you could use different fruit instead of the strawberries.
Yes you can and peaches are amazing!
Thanks for this question! I just made the strawberry recipe and was wondering about peaches and nectarines
Can I use frozen strawberries instead of fresh? If so would I use the same amount of water?
You can use frozen strawberries and if you do, omit the water s the frozen berries will release a lot of liquid. Enjoy!