Having different sauce recipes in your repertoire to change up meals and desserts can expand your menus tremendously. Sauces are not just for savory dishes. My strawberry sauce is simple and delicious! Strawberries are so tasty and sweet. My kids love them, so when they are on sale, I buy them up! Often that means that they can start to go bad before we have had a chance to finish eating them. With all the amazing fresh fruit and vegetables coming into season, they are more cost effective and much more abundant. Here is this crazy easy recipe that you can use to top pancakes or waffles, ice cream or yogurt or whatever you like!
Strawberry Sauce
Ingredients
16 ounces of fresh strawberries, sliced
2 Tablespoons of sugar (add ½ Tablespoon at a time and taste because it depends on how sweet your strawberries are naturally)
2 Tablespoons of water
1 teaspoon of balsamic vinegar, optional (but I think it adds such a great depth of flavor! Doesn’t taste vinegary)
Directions
Add all the ingredients to a sauce pan on medium high heat on the stove. Stir every couple of minutes until the fruit breaks down and it becomes a sauce, about 15 minutes. Serve warm over pancakes or cool and pour over ice cream or swirl in with yogurt. Can keep in the fridge 3 or 4 days in an airtight container.
You can also make this with blueberries, raspberries or blackberries and just adjust the sugar based on how sweet the fruits are. Don’t let those summer fruits go to waste!
There are just so many uses for this sauce. You can make ice cream sundaes, pour this sauce over gf angel food cake or my biscuits for a version of strawberry shortcake.
What is your favorite summer sauce? How do you use it?
We live in Florida and get strawberries all the time in season. I love making sauces with them, and this looks like a great recipe!
Thank you! It is so easy and so good on so many things!
We have strawberry picking season coming up!
Good timing then 😉
I totally agree about balsamic vinegar and strawberries! I add it to my strawberries with a little sugar before using them in desserts. It really brings out the flavor!
It is one of my favorite kitchen items! A little balsamic is great on so many things, sweet or savory.
This is great for so many items! Thanks!
You are very welcome!
It’s already strawberry season here in my area. I have seen a lot of farmers selling strawberry, this year I made made two batch of the jam. I am gonna try making strawberry sauce. Thank you for sharing this idea.