Try this delicious homemade strawberry puree in this easy, fruity recipe, in pastries to add flavor to your frostings, perfect cake filling like in my strawberry vanilla cake, cupcakes like these white chocolate strawberry cupcakes, and cheesecake batters, or topping your favorite desserts.
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The strawberry puree recipe is nothing more than a mixture made from sweetened strawberries reduced to a smooth puree. It's used in patisserie to flavor cake and cupcake batters, frosting and more.
Made with just 3 ingredients - fresh strawberries or frozen strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice - strawberry puree is very similar to strawberry compote or strawberry coulis, only the texture is different.
It's a quick and easy recipe to make at home, and you can use it to flavor buttercream, cheesecake batter, sponge cake batter, like this strawberry buttercream cake, mascarpone whipped cream, ice cream, and more.
But this reduced strawberry puree is also amazing as a topping for cake, cupcakes, cheesecakes, and cookies, to add a fresh strawberry flavor to your drinks, smoothies, and the endless list goes on.
Why you'll love this recipe
Craving for more strawberry recipes? Give these a try: Strawberry mascarpone cake, Strawberry fraisier, Strawberry cream cake, French Strawberry tart.
Ingredients You Need
You need these ingredients to make this Strawberry puree recipe:
Ingredients Notes
- Strawberries: You can use either fresh strawberries if you are in the strawberry season, or frozen strawberries to make this recipe year-round.
- Sugar: Essential to soften the tart flavor of cooked strawberries, you can use granulated sugar, or natural sugar such as honey, maple syrup, or agave syrup. (I don't recommend using brown sugar or coconut sugar, which could alter the strawberry flavor).
- Lemon: Use fresh lemon juice or bottled lemon juice to preserve the strawberry pulp.
How to Make Strawberry Puree Recipe
Here are some quick visual instructions. Don't forget that full recipe instructions with exact ingredients can be found in the recipe card below!
Step 1: Place the fresh or frozen strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice in a medium saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until you obtain a compote-like texture with softened pieces.
Sep 2: Blend in a blender or food processor, or directly with a hand mixer until smooth.
Step 3: If necessary, strain the strawberry purée through a fine mesh sieve to remove grains and residues.
How to use pureed strawberries
You can eat fresh strawberry puree with a spoon, serve it to your baby or use it for baking. Here are a few ideas:
- For flavoring icing, frosting like this whipped strawberry buttercream, Strawberry ganache frosting, strawberry Swiss buttercream or this strawberry whipped cream frosting, or in Swiss meringue buttercream or vanilla white chocolate ganache, strawberry lemon cream cheese frosting.
- As a filling in your layer cakes like this strawberry whipped cream cake in these strawberry-filled cupcakes, or these chocolate cupcakes.
- Add a natural pink color and a sweet strawberry flavor to cake batter, cheesecake, cupcakes, pancakes and more.
- As a strawberry sauce to desserts like this berry pavlova, in cottage cheese with homemade granola or on a slice of New York cheesecake.
- In a drink like my iced strawberry matcha latte, in a smoothie like this strawberry banana smoothie, lemonade, or this strawberry milkshake.
Tips for this recipe
Storage instructions
In the fridge: Leftover puree is kept for 3-5 days in the fridge in a jar with a lid or an airtight container.
Variations & Substitutions
Recipe Questions
Is strawberry jam same as puree?
No, jam is half sugar and half fruit, strawberry puree contains less sugar.
Does Strawberry puree freeze well?
Yes, you can freeze leftover puree, once it has been completely cooled for 3 months, you can place them in an ice cube trays to defrost very small quantities.
How to get a thick texture?
The longer you cook it, the more the liquid evaporates, giving it a thick texture. You can always add gelatine, flour or cornstarch to thicken it a little more.
How to make a sugar-free puree?
I recommend adding sugar to soften the acidity of the fruit. You can always use natural sugar or agave syrup to make a healthy strawberry puree recipe.
How do you puree strawberries without a blender?
When the strawberries are cooked and softened, you can crush them with a fork or use a puree masher.
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I hope you love a homemade strawberry reduction. If you make it, be sure to leave a comment and a rating so I know how you liked it. Happy Baking!
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How to make Strawberry Puree
- Total Time: 18 minutes
- Yield: 1 jar
Description
A concentrate of homemade strawberry purée made with just 3 ingredients, perfect for flavoring your frosting, and icings, into your cake or cupcakes as filling or to eat by the spoonful (for about 200 g of purée/ 1 cup jar).
Ingredients
- 400 g (2 cups) Strawberries - fresh or frozen
- 40 g (¼ cup) Sugar - granulated
- ½ lemon juice
Instructions
- Place the whole strawberries in a medium saucepan with the sugar and lemon juice.
- Cook over a medium heat for 5 minutes, then lower the heat and continue cooking for around 10-15 minutes until you have a thick, puree-like consistency with chunks of strawberries.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool completely.
- Blend the mixture in a food processor or with blender until smooth.
- Strain through a fine sieve if necessary to remove seeds and other residues.
- Place the strawberry purée in a glass jar with a lid and store in the fridge.
Notes
Storage: Refrigerate in a jar with a tight-fitting lid for around 1 week, or freeze for up to 3 months.
Sugar-free purée: Replace white sugar with maple syrup, honey or agave syrup.
- Prep Time: 3 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: filling, cream
- Cuisine: American
Great recipe, it's delicious and perfectly sweet!