Recently I purchased too many strawberries because they were 3 packages for three dollars! We ate most of them, but I had one package left over that I needed to do something with. My dear cousin and her family were scheduled to come for dinner and they had requested vanilla ice cream for dessert so I decided to make a strawberry sauce as a garnish; who doesn’t love home-made strawberry sauce?
Strawberry Sauce
A KitchenInspirations Original Recipe
Makes 300 mL
To print the recipe, please click here.
Ingredients:
- 340 g strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped
- 47 g coconut sugar
- 3 mL freshly squeezed lemon juice
Directions:
- Stir the ingredients together in a heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves, then bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and simmer for 3 minutes.
- Lightly blend with an immersion blender, leaving some bits. Cool. Refrigerate or freeze until required, bring to room temperature before use.
Even though I usually don’t need anything with good ice-cream, I would love to taste it with this sauce! It’s strange, but I’ve never thought of making any sauce whenever I serve ice-cream… but it’s so logical and so delicious, I’m sure!
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Thank you for your kind words Sissi, the sauce went over very well with my cousins.
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A perfect topping for vanilla ice cream…love it as an easy summer dessert.
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Thank you Karen, it is such an easy sauce to whip up, love how it brightens the vanilla ice cream too.
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Perfect! Do I need to mention that you’re half-way to a banana split? It’s one of my favorite desserts, and once you’ve had it with homemade sauces, you’ll never turn back.
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Believe it or not, Jeff, banana split was on the table when I was thinking of dessert for this clan. I should have also had a few ripe banana on hand, would have been awesome!
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I love all the chunks of fruit that you’ve left in Eva! 😀 As you say it really sets it apart from commercial types!
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Thank you Lorraine, the sauce was very tasty indeed.
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Love making homemade berry sauce. Strawberry is probably my favorite — terrific flavor and absolutely gorgeous color. Yours looks wonderful — thanks.
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Thanks John, it is a tasty addition to ice cream or even yogurt.
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Anything with strawberry in the title has me won. Intrigued by the coconut sugar?
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Also called coconut palm sugar. They extract sap from the coconut palm and make the sugar from that.
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Now definitely is the time for strawberries. They were all over our local farmer’s market this past weekend. And they actually taste like strawberries, imagine that! This looks like a great way to use up any extra you have. Intrigued by the coconut sugar. Never heard of it, but to be totally honest, but now I’ll need to do some Googling…
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Hi Frank, thank you for your comment. Coconut sugar is sometimes called coconut palm sugar, it is made by extracting the sap from the coconut palm, then they boil off the water and dehydrate the remaining syrup. It is marginally healthier than regular white sugar.
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Yummy looking. I haven’t bought fresh strawberries in donkeys’ (y)ears. The last ice cream sauce/topping I made was with pineapple chunks.
(PS: What are the sugar and lemon juice measurements in Imperial for us old fogies who are too lazy to look it up online, please?)
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I usually use King Arthur Flour for conversions, it lists pretty much everything. 5 mL is a teaspoon, so the lemon juice would be a scant teaspoon, the coconut sugar is about 1/3 cup.
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Thank you. I’ll have to bookmark that KAF site.
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Fascinating! I just made a strawberry sauce or syrup, and just used white sugar. I’ve never heard of coconut sugar! This morning I used coconut nectar on some granola I was baking, but never coconut sugar. I need to find it!
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Hi Chef Mimi, coconut sugar is made from the sap of the coconut palm. It is marginally better than regular sugar. I like the taste in some recipes.
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Looks fantastic and I love its simple preparation, Eva.
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It was very tasty, Angie. Thank you for your comment.
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