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    Home / Cake basics 101 / Frosting & filling

    Strawberry Coulis

    Sep 26, 2023 by Fadela This post may contain affiliate links

    It's so easy to make homemade strawberry coulis with this easy recipe, perfect in your cakes as a filling like in my Victoria Sponge cake or to flavor my no-bake strawberry cheesecake.

    Strawberry sauce is also delicious served with fresh fruit and a whipped cream, or in a panna cotta or a strawberry tiramisu.

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    Homemade strawberry coulis recipe is a delicious strawberry-based preparation that flavors pastry preparations, frostings, and fillings and goes well with all our favorite desserts.

    Made from just 3 ingredients - strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice - it takes just 10 minutes of prep time to make this fruit coulis at home and costs much less than the store-bought ones.

    Strawberry coulis is perfect for flavoring or coating all your desserts, ice cream, as a garnish with Grec yogurt, or to go with a slice of this strawberry swirl cheesecake, my French toast recipe or my strawberry whipped cream cake.

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    • How to make a strawberry sauce recipe
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    • Strawberry Coulis

    Why you'll love this recipe

    • A very quick and easy recipe, ready in just 10 minutes!
    • Only 3 ingredients: strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice for preservation.
    • Much cheaper than store-bought, with natural ingredients and no artificial preservatives.
    • Delicious and fruity, perfect to flavor pastries, to add a strawberry topping to your cakes and homemade desserts.

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    Ingredients for this recipe

    Here's an overview of the ingredients needed to make homemade strawberry sauce, scroll down to see the quantities in the recipe card.

    • Strawberries: Use your preferred choice of either fresh strawberries (during strawberry season) or frozen strawberries perfect for making homemade coulis all year round.
    • Sugar: Optionally use white granulated sugar to sweeten the coulis, you can reduce or increase the quantity for a sweeter taste, or choose a natural sugar such as maple syrup or honey.
    • Lemon: Use fresh lemon juice or bottled lemon juice to preserve the fruit coulis.

    Optional :

    • Fruit: Mix with other red fruits for a more flavorful sauce, such as frozen berries or fresh berries, raspberries, etc.
    • Thickener: Add a bit of flour or cornstarch to thicken the texture.
    • Vanilla: a bit of pure vanilla extract can be added to flavor the sauce.
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    How to make a strawberry sauce recipe

    • Place all the ingredients in a medium saucepan: hulled and sliced strawberries, granulated sugar, and fresh lemon juice.
    • Heat the saucepan over medium-low heat for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon until the strawberries have softened.

    Tip: You can use a mixture of strawberries and raspberries or red berries.

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    Blend

    • Mash the strawberries with a fork to see if they have softened enough, until you have a strawberry purée.
    • Remove from the heat and use an immersion blender (or blender) to smooth the fruit coulis to the consistency of strawberry juice.
    • Strain the mixture through a fine sieve to remove all the seeds and obtain a smooth sauce mixture.
    • Pour the strawberry sauce into a glass jar with a lid and leave to cool completely in the fridge.

    Tip: If you prefer a chunky sauce like this strawberry compote, skip the blending step and you'll have a texture a little more like strawberry jam.

    saucepan with strawberry purée
    saucepan with strawberry juice

    how to use your fruit sauce

    • To go with my chocolate strawberry layer cake, a slice of strawberry coffee cake or this strawberry Angel food cake.
    • As a topping on a panna cotta recipe, a strawberry tart or a strawberry fraisier cake.
    • In a strawberry biscoff tiramisu.
    • As a verine with mascarpone frosting and fresh strawberries.
    • To flavor a cheese cake base, mousse or vanilla ice cream,
    • Serve with homemade granola and cottage cheese, or in yogurt.
    • On French Toast brioche with fresh fruit.

    Storage and tips

    In the fridge: Fruit coulis can only be stored in the fridge for about 1 week, in a glass jar with a lid.

    In the freezer: You can also freeze it for up to 3 months, leaving it to thaw gently overnight in the fridge.

    How do you thicken a fruit coulis? You can follow the preparation of strawberry purée, which is thicker and more concentrated in fruit.

    Add a gelling agent to thicken the coulis such as special jam sugar, or a small amount of cornstarch, potato starch, or flour.

    jar with strawberry coulis

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    • Author: Fadela
    • Total Time: 11 minutes
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    Description

    How to make homemade strawberry coulis with just strawberries, sugar and lemon juice (for a pot of about 250 g / about 1 cup)


    Ingredients

    • 250 g (1 ¼ cups) Strawberries - fresh or frozen
    • 40 g (¼ cup) Sugar - granulated
    • ½ Lemon juice - fresh approx. 20 ml

    Instructions

    1. Place the hulled and chopped fresh strawberries or whole frozen strawberries in a medium saucepan with the granulated sugar and fresh lemon juice.
    2. Heat over medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon or tablespoon until the strawberries are mashed.
    3. Mash the strawberries with a fork or potato masher.
    4. Remove from the heat and blend the mixture in a blender until you have a liquid strawberry coulis.
    5. Strain the coulis through a fine sieve to remove strawberry seeds and other residues, and ensure a smooth sauce.
    6. Pour the strawberry coulis into a glass jar with a lid and leave to cool completely in the fridge before using it in your desserts and cakes.

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    Notes

    Storage: Up to 1 week in the fridge and up to 3 months in the freezer.

    Notes :

    • Replace sugar with natural sugar, such as honey, maple syrup or agave syrup.
    • Make a mixture of red fruits, strawberries with raspberries, etc.
    • Prep Time: 1 minute
    • Cook Time: 10 minutes
    • Category: Sauce, coulis
    • Cuisine: American

    Keywords: strawberry coulis, strawberry sauce, fresh strawberry sauce, frozen strawberry sauce,

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