STRAWBERRY SAUCE
Strawberry Sauce is easy to make at home, a versatile condiment without any artificial colouring, preservatives or flavouring. It comes together within 15 minutes from start to end. And it just needs a few ingredients. This sauce is generally used as a topping. Make it smooth or leave it chunky.
Ingredients
- 2 cups strawberries approx 250g
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp cornflour or cornstarch
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon zest
Instructions
- Wash and hull the strawberries. Cut them into half or quarter depending on the size.
- Mix the cornflour with the water to make a slurry.
- Add the slurry, strawberries, sugar, lemon juice and zest to a pan.
- Allow the mixture to become hot over medium heat.
- Don't forget to stir the mixture as it cooks as it may stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Using your spatula or wooden spoon, break up some of the strawberries.
- Allow the mixture to simmer for 5 minutes. By then the strawberries will be soft and the sauce will be a bit thick.
- Let the sauce cool down completely before storing in an airtight jar.
Notes
- The sauce keeps well in the refrigerator for a week.
- Serve it with ice cream, pancakes, waffles, fresh fruit, mousse, panna cotta or with cheesecake.
- Try making the sauce using other berries, mangoes, peaches, plums or other fruits.
- Remove the skin of peaches, plums.
- Flavour the sauce with basil, mint.
- Adjust the sugar according to the sweetness of the strawberries.