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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Strawberry Coulis
- Total Time: 11 minutes
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
- Place the hulled and chopped fresh strawberries or whole frozen strawberries in a medium saucepan with the granulated sugar and fresh lemon juice.
- Heat over medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon or tablespoon until the strawberries are mashed.
- Mash the strawberries with a fork or potato masher.
- Remove from the heat and blend the mixture in a blender until you have a liquid strawberry coulis.
- Strain the coulis through a fine sieve to remove strawberry seeds and other residues, and ensure a smooth sauce.
- 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.
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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