Homemade Strawberry Sauce Topping

Homemade Strawberry Sauce Topping

Make this fresh homemade strawberry sauce for your refreshers, desserts, pancakes, and everything else in between using this simple four-ingredient recipe.

Course Drinks

Cuisine American

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

Total Time 25

Servings /2 cup

Calories 79kcal

Author Takes Two Eggs

Ingredients

2 cups strawberries chopped
2 tablespoons granulated sugar plus more to taste
2 tablespoons of lemon juice plus more to taste
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tsp Cornstarch + 1 tsp water optional for a thicker jam

Instructions

Prepare the strawberries. Wash and chop the strawberries into small pieces.
Cook the strawberries. In a small saucepan, mix together the sugar, lemon juice, vanilla and strawberries. Heat over medium low heat until simmers. When it begins to bubble turn down the heat and simmer until the sauce turns into a puree. Continually mix with a rubber spatula to prevent burning and to smash the strawberries. Cook for about 15-25 minutes or until desired consistency.
Strain the sauce. Strain the sauce over a finely meshed sieve into a mixing bowl to remove seeds. This step is optional if you want a smooth sauce. Alternatively, if you want small strawberry chunks you can leave the sauce as is.

Notes

Don't blend the strawberries. I found that cooking the strawberries using rough chopped pieces yielded the best results in terms of flavor.

You can adjust the sweetness to your preference. Strawberries everywhere will have different levels of sweetness. It is ultimately up to you how sweet you want to make the sauce. Adding more sugar 1 tbsp at a time and mixing it in will yield the best results. If you made the sauce too sweet add another 1 tsp of lemon juice to counter balance the sweetness.
If you want a thicker viscous sauce, use cornstarch. If you are looking for a thicker sauce that resembles more of a jam, then I recommend using a cornstarch slurry. A cornstarch slurry composes of a 1:1 ratio of cornstarch to water. Mix the cornstarch with water in a small bowl before adding it to the strawberries. This will prevent the cornstarch from clumping up.

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