No Cook Strawberry Sauce (no added sugar)

Ingredients

Scroll down to the no cook strawberry sauce recipe card for the amounts of each ingredient, but here's a quick visual + description of what's in this recipe.

• Fresh Strawberries: Choose the most red, firm, nice looking strawberries for max strawberry flavor. See notes above for tips.
• Fresh Lemon Juice: Just a bit of lemon juice adds a nice zip to the sauce and enhances the strawberry flavor.
• Salt: Just a pinch of salt will enhance the strawberry flavor in your no cook strawberry sauce

Instructions

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1. Remove leaves from strawberries. Slice lemon in half, remove seeds.

2. Add strawberries, fresh lemon juice, and a pinch of salt to blender. Blend until desired consistency. Adjust flavors, add sugar if desired.

3. Once smooth, pour your no cook strawberry sauce into glass jar to store for a week. Serve over ice cream, yogurt, or on graham crackers.

Tips to get the most strawberry flavor

• Choose bright red berries. Slightly soft berries are good too, just not very mushy ones as they taste more fermented than you might want in strawberry sauce.
• Choose small- small medium berries, if you can (they tend to be a bit sweeter and more flavorful than the large ones)
• Choose strawberries with bright, fresh looking green leaves. This will help you get fresh, flavorful no cook strawberry sauce
• Add sugar (optional) and a pinch of salt to add some flavor
• If your berries are not super flavorful, smash half to all of the berries, add a tablespoon + of sugar and let it sit, add remaining strawberries (if applicable) then finish the recipe

Storage Tips

Store leftover no cook strawberry sauce in an airtight container in the fridge. It should last a couple weeks. You can heat it up in the microwave until it's to room temperature, if you'd like, or serve it cold.

This strawberry sauce is also easy to freeze. You can pour it into an ice tray for smaller/individual servings. This way you can get as much as you'd like to defrost instead of the whole amount.

Defrost in the fridge for a few hours, or in the microwave until room temperature, or it's no longer frozen.

Substitutions/Tips

• This no cook strawberry sauce is the perfect way to use up strawberries that are starting to get soft. You know the ones you don't really want to eat plain. They're really ripe, sweet, and perfect for this sauce.
• Don't use early season strawberries that lack flavor, your sauce just won't be that delicious. I highly recommend using up your last farmers market strawberries or others that are packed with flavor.
• Add sugar (granulated, honey, etc) to sweeten it up.
• Want to thicken it up? Add some chia seeds. They'll soak up the liquid and you can use it as jam too! Much easier than making jam with pectin.
• Substitute strawberries for other fresh fruit: berries or peaches.

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Repurpose this sauce

The best part of this no cook strawberry sauce recipe is just how versatile it is.

• No cook strawberry sauce is great over ice cream, Single Serving Brownie, between cake layers
• On yogurt
• Added to a smoothie
• Mix your no cook strawberry sauce with olive oil to make an easy summer salad dressing
• Add to lemonade to make strawberry lemonade (replace ½ cup sauce for berries in this Sparkling Berry Lemonade Recipe)

What to do with leftover ingredients

When you're cooking for one, you often have leftover produce, cans of whatever ingredient, etc. Here are a couple ideas on how to use up the leftover ingredients. It'll help you save money by wasting fewer ingredients.

• Strawberries: Strawberry Banana Milkshake, Sparkling Berry Lemonade, or top easy chocolate waffles with them.
• Lemon: Single Serving Lemonade, Lemon Herb Couscous, Cucumber Beet Salad with Feta.

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