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Chopped strawberries

Strawberry Sauce

Fresh, sweet strawberries make an excellent topping for pancakes, waffles, ice cream, and yogurt.

Course Dessert
Cuisine Sauces
Keyword sauce, strawberry, sweet, topping
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 3

Ingredients

  • 1 lb strawberries
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Cut the tops off of the strawberries and slice them into chunks.  You don't need to crush them, and the chunks don't need to be tiny, the sauce will make them squishy and smaller when it's finished.

    Roughly Chopped Strawberries

  2. In a small pan, combine the strawberries, sugar, vanilla and lemon juice.  Cook over low-medium heat until they boil, stirring constantly.

  3. Once the berries have reached boiling, turn down the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.  Remove the sauce from the heat and cool before serving.  The sauce will thicken considerably while it cools off!

    Simmering Berries

Recipe Notes

Don't be alarmed if the strawberries seem to lose their color at some point during cooking.  Mine went an alarming shade of almost gray for a minute or two, but came back to their original brighter red.